
Panum Crater Parking is the gateway to a dramatic volcanic cinder cone and crater views over the Mono Basin. Photographers get wide, high-contrast landscapes with big-sky skies—especially at sunrise/sunset when the dark scoria and surrounding flats pop. Remote, usually uncrowded, and ideal for night skies in clear weather.

Panum Crater Parking is the gateway to a dramatic volcanic cinder cone and crater views over the Mono Basin. Photographers get wide, high-contrast landscapes with big-sky skies—especially at sunrise/sunset when the dark scoria and surrounding flats pop. Remote, usually uncrowded, and ideal for night skies in clear weather.