# @theoregonian on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DI9xXpiPkrf
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/29902420-theoregonian-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/320220b420.jpg
- **Posted:** 2025-04-27T22:00:53.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Oregonian (@theoregonian) — https://gondola.cc/theoregonian

## Caption

People heading to the desert southeast of Bend laugh when retired Woodburn teacher Theresa Ellis suggests they stop at Crack-in-the-Ground.

They think she’s pulling their leg, but if they drive to Christmas Valley in a remote stretch of southern Oregon and decide to endure the bumpy Crack-in-the-Ground Road, they will be rewarded with a natural wonder: an ancient volcanic fissure two miles long, 15 feet wide and up to 70 feet deep.

Tension along a fault zone created the fracture, opening up a fissure in a field of lava that originally flowed from nearby Green Mountain, a small shield volcano, some 740,000 years ago.

Read more at the link in our bio.

📹: Janet Eastman

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