We met up with Wetumpka Impact Crater Commission Chairman Marilee Tankersely and headed out to the Wetumpka Impact Crater on this week’s episode of Hiking with Hailey.

Wetumpka is also the site of a rare astrobleme, or "star-wound," a 5-mile-wide crater caused by a falling meteor millions of years ago. The crater is located off U.S. Highway 231.

Scientists estimate that nearly 83 million years ago, an asteroid struck the area that the city of Wetumpka now inhabits. The resulting crater, which is 5 miles wide, struck an area that at one ...

WETUMPKA -- Officials are seeking money to build a visitor center at the site of a crater created when a meteor hit central Alabama more than 80 million years ago.

Wetumpka is the site of the greatest natural disaster to ever hit Alabama, a large meteor strike. It created a five-mile wide crater that is still visible near the city. This happened over 85 ...

The Wetumpka Impact Crater Commission sponsored tours and an exhibit at the Civic Center, and were overwhelmed with the response. Guides took visitors on an abbreviated 30-minute tour of the ...