Mountain biker Michelle Hutchins was among the first to tackle the reopened Craters of the Moon Mountain Bike Park this Labour Weekend. Photo / Kent Hutchins After eight long months, the wait is ...

Bike Taupō has received a large grant to speed up reconstruction at the Craters of the Moon Mountain Bike Park severely damaged during Cyclone Gabrielle. The $135,000 grant from the Ministry of ...

Craters of the Moon's volcanic lava flows, which come from eruptions that occurred in just the past 10,000 years, cover hundreds of square miles, giving it the appearance of a lunar landscape.

ARCO • Idaho is the only state in the West that doesn’t have a national park solely within its borders. That could change if a proposal to convert Craters of the Moon gets legs. The idea has ...

Nearly 100 years ago, Robert “Two-gun Bob” Limbert followed the trails of the Shoshone Indians into the heart of Idaho’s Great Rift, a huge volcanic plain that most explorers had avoided.

However, when National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis was in Boise earlier this year he didn’t sound optimistic about the idea. Jarvis, who worked at Craters of the Moon, didn’t address the ...

The park sits across the Snake River Plain in Central Idaho, just underneath the foothills of the gorgeous Pioneer Mountains. Thanks to this prime real estate, Craters of the Moon boasts a "weird ...

ARCO – The National Park Service has reopened a portion of the Loop Road and the Lava Flow Campground at Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve in southern Idaho to motor vehicle ...

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A decades-old proposal to upgrade Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve to a national park is getting new life. The monument’s superintendent, Dan Buckley, is ...