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Volcanoes in United States

A volcano is a landform you cannot take in from its own slopes. From above the whole system appears at once: the summit crater or the far larger caldera, the gullies cut by ash and rain, the lava flows frozen in the direction they took.

Stratovolcanoes, calderas and volcanic islands, each with aerial views, photographs, video and a guide to their eruption history, monitoring and what climbing them involves.

5 Volcanoes in United States, each with aerial views, photos, videos and an in-depth guide.

Kilauea

Kīlauea (UK: KEEL-ow-AY-ə, US: KIL-ə-WAY-ə, Hawaiian: [tiːlɐwˈwɛjə]) is an active shield volcano in the Hawaiian Islands that last erupted between 1983 and 2018. Historically, Kīlauea is the most active of the five volcanoes that together form the island of H…

Mount St. Helens (known as Lawetlat'la to the Indigenous Cowlitz people, and Loowit or Louwala-Clough to the Klickitat) is an active stratovolcano lo…

Mount Kaguyak is a stratovolcano located in the northeastern part of the Katmai National Park and Preserve in the U.S. state of Alaska. The 2.5 km wi…

Mount Adams most often refers to: Mount Adams (Washington) (3,743 m), a volcano in the Cascades and second highest mountain in the Washington state