I've got a book called Writing To Learn, by William Zinsser. Fascinating book. One of the excerpts is about the Roden Crater:
Several years ago he [Russell] went to Flagstaff, Arizona to see what he called "the most ambitious work of art now under construction in the United States -" the reshaping of Roden Crater, the crater of an extinct volcano, by the artist James Turrell.
The book was published in 1988.
Checking Wikipedia today, there's not much info about the Roden Crater today, 24 years later.
Roden Crater is a cinder cone type of volcanic cone from an extinct volcano, with a remaining interior volcanic crater. It is located northeast of the city of Flagstaff in northern Arizona, United States.
Art project
The artist James Turrell, for his Land art project, acquired the 400,000-year-old, 3-mile-wide (4.8 km) crater's land.
Turrell has since been transforming the inner cone of the crater into a
massive naked-eye observatory, designed specifically for the viewing
and experiencing sky-light, solar, and celestial phenomena. The fleeting
Winter and Summer solstice events will be highlighted.
Future
The Dia Art Foundation is continuing to advocate for the development of James Turrell's Roden Crater project in the Painted Desert in Arizona which was begun in the 1970s with Dia's support. James Turrell, who purchased the Roden Crater in 1979, had plans to open the crater for public viewing in 2011.
However, there is a website for the project:
http://rodencrater.com
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