Trails:
Hike the park trails to experience the park's essence and to gain an understanding of the natural and cultural history of Kilauea and Mauna Loa volcanoes. Day hikes as well as backcountry trips of several days duration are available.Popular day hikes include: Halema`uma`u Overlook, a 10-minute walk to the crater's edge; Devastation Trail, a 30-minute walk through the cinder outfall of the 1959 Kilauea Iki eruption; Thurston Lava Tube, a 20-minute walk through a tree fern forest and prehistoric lava tube; Kilauea Iki, a two-hour hike descending 400 feet through native forest into a crater and across lava flows still steaming from the 1959 Kilauea Iki eruption (four-mile loop); Pu`u Huluhulu, a two-hour round trip hike over 1973-1974 lava flows to the top of a 150 foot prehistoric cinder cone (three miles round trip).
Access is from Chain of Craters Road. Kipuka Puaulu, a one-hour, one mile loop trail through an "island" of forest rich with rare plants. Access is from Mauna Loa Road.
