volcano
Twenty miles from the lodge sits Aniakchak, a six-mile-wide volcanic caldera formed by an eruption around 1628 BCE. The blast was violent enough to send pyroclastic flows all the way to the Bering Sea. What it left behind is one of the most dramatic landscapes in Alaska: a crater rim rising a thousand meters above a floor dotted with cones, domes, and a lake at its center.
aniakchak
the flight & the landing
We fly from the lodge into the caldera itself and land on Surprise Lake, the remnant of an ancient crater lake and the source of the Aniakchak River, which escapes through a notch in the eastern wall known as The Gates. From the water's edge, you can walk the caldera floor of a volcano that last erupted in 1931.
by the numbers
6 Miles
Diameter of the caldera
1,000 meters
Height of the crater rim above the floor
1931
Last recorded eruption
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