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lush landscape and neighborhoods, and the crater floor, where a 1959 eruption
has added over 1000 acres of new land to blasted lava 1900 feet into the air for 36
the Big Island since 1983. For eruption days.
information call (808) 985-6000 or see
http:\\hvo.wr.usgs.gov VOLCANO VILLAGE In the cool
rainforest near the park entry is an artists'
CAMPING The Park has first-come-first- colony with numerous bed-and-breakfast
served, free drive-in campgrounds at cottages, including the famous Volcano
Namakani Paio and Kulanaokuaiki. House. Reservations: (808) 967-7321
Primitive hike-in campgrounds are shown
on the map. Water must be carried with AKATSUKA ORCHID GARDENS Has
you or treated. one of the largest orchid collections in
Hawaii. Free self-guided tours reveal rare
KA'U DESERT This area appears to be a orchids as well as common species from
desert even though it receives substantial around the world. New orchid varieties
rainfall. However, fuming gasses from are created with cross pollination.
Kilauea Caldera cause the rain to become Agriculturally inspected orchid plants and
acidic and thus lethal to plant life. flowers can be shipped home. (808) 967-
8234
HALEMA'UMA'U TRAIL Moderate 3.5-
mile hike from the Visitor Center, 500 feet MAUNA LOA LOOKOUT Spectacular
down into the Kilauea Crater, and across view and picnic at 6662' (2031m)
to the other-worldly Halema'uma'u elevation
Overlook. The Overlook is more easily
approached from the parking turnout on SCENIC DRIVES WITHIN HAWAII
Crater Rim Drive. VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK
DEVASTATION TRAIL 1/2 mile path Circle Rim Drive - 11 mi (17.6 km) loop
where the forest was destroyed by the with 400' (122m) elev. change.
volcano in 1959. The earth is scorched
and the trees are torched. Hilina Pali Overlook - 18 mi (29 km)
THURSTON (NAHAKU) LAVA TUBE round trip with 1400' (427m) elev.
Short hike through a lava tube in the change.
middle of a lush fern forest. It is usually
cool and damp here. Summit to Sea - 40 mi (65 km) round trip
with 3700' (1127m) elev. change on Chain
KILAUEA IKI TRAIL Moderate 4-mile of Craters Road.
trail from the Kilauea Volcano Visitor
Center, down through fern forests into the Mauna Loa Road - 27 mi (43 km) round
fuming Kilauea Iki Crater, and then across trip climbs 2600' (792m) up volcano.
