Chain of Craters Road - Island of Hawaii, Hawaii, United States
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- ... We walked through the Thurston lava tube, hike down to Iki crater, explored the sulfur/steam fields, went to the end of Chain of craters road to see the lava flow ...
- ... Getting back to Hawaii, I thought it would also be interesting to approach Chain of Craters Road from the eastern side of the lava fields which had cut off the part of the road we had visited yesterday ...
- ... There is one hike I'd particularly recommend which is towards the end of the Chain of Craters road, this leading to the Pu'u Loa' Petroglyphs ...
- ... We also drove down Chain of Craters Road to the coast, where the road is blocked by lava flows ...
- ... Hiked the road towards the steam banks and then the crater rim past the vistor center and onto devastation trail and the chain of craters road ...
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- Chain of craters road...right down from Kilauea... by Rawhideone from a blog titled time to go camping....
- Ocean lava flow from Chain of Craters Road by Jleelewis from a blog titled Exploring the Volcano Park
- - Chain of Craters Road - from no. 1 to no. 3 by Lobo from a blog titled Chain of Craters - Hawaii Volcanoes Nat. Pk.
- The end of the Chain of Craters Road by Jleelewis from a blog titled Exploring the Volcano Park
- End of the Chain of Craters Road by Dan.melanie from a blog titled Liquid Rock
Constructing the Chain of Craters Road on Big Island of Hawaii
Hawaii County Reconstructing Chain of Craters Road. HD Video by Staff Sgt. Katie Gray | 117th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment (Hawaii) | Date: 11.05.2014. The Hawaii County has begun reconstructing Chain of Craters Road on the Big Island of Hawaii. The road is located in Kalapana, and had been overtaken by Kīlauea's ongoing Puʻu ʻŌʻō eruption (which is also the cause of the current Puna lava flow). The first eruption which covered Kalapana occurred in 1983 and can be roughly divided into five time periods, with the most recent ending in December 2012. The recovered road would give residents of Pahoa another route to Hilo in case the Puna lava flow crosses Highway 130. The new route from Pahoa to Hilo via Chain of Craters Road is approximately 70 miles compared to the approximate and current 20 mile drive.
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Chain of Craters Road is a 19-mile winding paved road through the East Rift and coastal area of the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on the island of Hawaii, in the state of Hawaii, United States. The original road, built in 1928, connected Crater Rim Drive to Makaopuhi Crater. The road was lengthened to reach the tiny town of Kalapana in 1959. The road has had parts covered by lava several times due to eruptions of the Kīlauea volcano. [Wikipedia]
Volcanoes National Park - FULL VIDEO TOUR (Big Island, Hawaii)
Here is a compilation video of our trip to Volcanoes National Park! It features a lof of the hikes we did, the Hawaiian State Bird (The Nene), Chain of Craters Road (Volcano Scenic Drive), Hōlei Sea Arch, Kilauea Volcano Crater and more!
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Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park
Address: Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, HI 96718
Established: August 1, 1916
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park is on Hawaii Island (the Big Island). At its heart are the Kīlauea and Mauna Loa active volcanoes. The Crater Rim Drive passes steam vents and the Jaggar Museum, which features volcanology exhibits and a viewpoint overlooking Halema'uma'u Crater. Thick ferns mark the entrance to the Thurston Lava Tube (Nāhuku). The Chain of Craters Road weaves over lava. Trails crisscross the park.
Kilauea Volcano:
Last eruption: May 3, 2018
Elevation: 4,091′
Prominence: 60′
Location: Hawaiʻi, United States
Volcanic arc/belt: Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain
Kīlauea is an active shield volcano in the Hawaiian Islands that last erupted between 1983 and 2018. Historically, Kīlauea is the most active of the five volcanoes that together form the island of Hawaiʻi.
Did you know: Kīlauea erupted nearly continuously from 1983 to 2018, causing considerable property damage, including the destruction of the towns of Kalapana in 1990, and Vacationland Hawaii and Kapoho in 2018.
Video Title: Volcanoes National Park - FULL VIDEO TOUR (Big Island, Hawaii)
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Chain of Craters Road - Volcano Scenic Drive (Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii)
This is a REALLY COOL scenic drive which runs from Volcanoes National Park to the Hōlei Sea Arch. You can park your car by the Hōlei Sea Arch and continue to see lava flows on foot. Highly recommended!! There are some great lookout spots on the Scenic Drive and you may bump into some Nene (The Hawaiian state bird). Take a look around and see some of the old lava flows too! Would go back!
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Chain of Craters Road is a 19-mile long winding paved road through the East Rift and coastal area of the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park on the island of Hawaii, in the state of Hawaii, United States. The original road, built in 1928, connected Crater Rim Drive to Makaopuhi Crater
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Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park
Address: Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, HI 96718
Established: August 1, 1916
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park is on Hawaii Island (the Big Island). At its heart are the Kīlauea and Mauna Loa active volcanoes. The Crater Rim Drive passes steam vents and the Jaggar Museum, which features volcanology exhibits and a viewpoint overlooking Halema'uma'u Crater. Thick ferns mark the entrance to the Thurston Lava Tube (Nāhuku). The Chain of Craters Road weaves over lava. Trails crisscross the park.
Kilauea Volcano:
Last eruption: May 3, 2018
Elevation: 4,091′
Prominence: 60′
Location: Hawaiʻi, United States
Volcanic arc/belt: Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain
Kīlauea is an active shield volcano in the Hawaiian Islands that last erupted between 1983 and 2018. Historically, Kīlauea is the most active of the five volcanoes that together form the island of Hawaiʻi.
Did you know: Kīlauea erupted nearly continuously from 1983 to 2018, causing considerable property damage, including the destruction of the towns of Kalapana in 1990, and Vacationland Hawaii and Kapoho in 2018.
Video Title: Chain of Craters Road - Volcano Scenic Drive (Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii)
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Hawaii Volcanoes National Park - Chain of Craters Road - Northbound Drive (2018)
Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, established on August 1, 1916, is an American national park located in the U.S. state of Hawaii on the island of Hawaii. The park encompasses two active volcanoes: Kīlauea, one of the world's most active volcanoes, and Mauna Loa, the world's most massive shield volcano. The park provides scientists with insight into the birth and development of the Hawaiian Islands, and ongoing studies into the processes of volcanism. For visitors, the park offers dramatic volcanic landscapes, as well as glimpses of rare flora and fauna.
In recognition of its outstanding natural values, Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park was designated as an International Biosphere Reserve in 1980 and a World Heritage Site in 1987. In 2012, Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park was depicted on the 14th quarter of the America the Beautiful Quarters series.
On May 10, 2018 the park was closed to the public in the Kīlauea volcano summit area, including the visitor center and park headquarters, due to explosions and toxic ash clouds from Halemaʻumaʻu crater, as well as earthquakes and road damage. However, portions of the park, including the visitor center, reopened to the public on September 22, 2018.
Eruptive activity, ground collapses and explosions in the park ceased in early August. As of late September, the lull in eruptive activity at Kīlauea Volcano continues. At the summit, seismicity and deformation are negligible. Sulfur dioxide emission rates at both the summit and the Lower East Rift Zone are drastically reduced; the combined rate is lower than at any time since late 2007. Earthquake and deformation data show no net accumulation, withdrawal, or significant movement of subsurface magma or pressurization as would be expected if the system was building toward a resumption of activity.
Driving down the Chain of Craters road, Big Island, Hawaii
Driving down the Chain of Craters road, Big Island, Hawaii
Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park, Big Island or Hawaii Island, Hawaii 4K (UHD)
Recorded: May 2019
00:00 Kilauea Volcano, Halemaumau Crater
01:58 Kilauea Iki Crater
05:16 Crater Rim Drive
05:37 Kilauea Volcano, Halemaumau Crater
08:06 Keanakakoi Crater
08:23 Kilauea Volcano, Halemaumau Crater
08:53 Crater Rim Drive
08:59 Chain of Craters Road
10:07 Kealakomo Overlook, Chain of Craters Road
11:09 Chain of Craters Rd
11:29 Holei Sea Arch, Chain of Craters Rd
12:04 Chain of Craters Rd
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Hōlei Sea Arch - Natural Arch (Volcanoes National Park, Big Island, Hawaii)
We drove all the way down Volcanoes National Park to see the Hōlei Sea Arch. I must admit, I think the journey to the Hōlei Sea Arch was better than the Hōlei Sea Arch itself lol. We saw Nene (Hawaiian state bird) and many unique old lava flows. Amazing journey!! When you get to Hōlei Sea Arch, you have to turn back because the road is closed due to lava flow. You can optionally park and walk, but you cannot drive any further. To see lava, you need to drive around and visit from Pahoa.
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Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park
Address: Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, HI 96718
Established: August 1, 1916
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park is on Hawaii Island (the Big Island). At its heart are the Kīlauea and Mauna Loa active volcanoes. The Crater Rim Drive passes steam vents and the Jaggar Museum, which features volcanology exhibits and a viewpoint overlooking Halema'uma'u Crater. Thick ferns mark the entrance to the Thurston Lava Tube (Nāhuku). The Chain of Craters Road weaves over lava. Trails crisscross the park.
Kilauea Volcano:
Last eruption: May 3, 2018
Elevation: 4,091′
Prominence: 60′
Location: Hawaiʻi, United States
Volcanic arc/belt: Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain
Kīlauea is an active shield volcano in the Hawaiian Islands that last erupted between 1983 and 2018. Historically, Kīlauea is the most active of the five volcanoes that together form the island of Hawaiʻi.
Did you know: Kīlauea erupted nearly continuously from 1983 to 2018, causing considerable property damage, including the destruction of the towns of Kalapana in 1990, and Vacationland Hawaii and Kapoho in 2018.
Video Title: Hōlei Sea Arch - Natural Arch (Volcanoes National Park, Big Island, Hawaii)
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What's at the End of Chain of Craters Road? Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
Written and Produced by Donald B MacGowan
Narrated by Frank Burgess
Still and Video Photography by Donnie MacGowan and Frank Burgess
What's at the End of Chain of Craters Road?
The end of the Chain of Craters Road is currently around Mile Marker 19, just at the Holei Sea Arch and about ½ mile from the National Park eruption viewing station. Good, if distant, viewing of the eruption, displays about the volcano and natural history of the area, as well as a wealth of information on hiking to, and viewing, the lava, are available here. In addition, numerous sea arches, sea caves, fabulous bird watching, indescribable ocean views and some pretty good biking are to be found here. Even if the lava flows are too far away to be easily hiked to, the hike along the new land, twisted lava forms and endless basalt landscape is well worth the drive to the end of the road.
Remember that you are hiking on a highly active volcano, if flowing streams of lava strand you, no rescue is practical or possible; plan, take care and pay strict attention accordingly. The section on Lava Viewing has a great deal of important information regarding hiking on this active volcano; be sure to review it so that you may approach the home of the goddess with respect, knowledge and awe, and return unscathed.
Going to see the lava flow and the eruption of a living volcano may well be the adventure of your lifetime; please be careful and pay attention to these warnings to make sure this is not the FINAL adventure of your lifetime.
Chain of Craters Road, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
Written and Produce by Donald B MacGowan
Narrated by Frank Burgess
Video and still photography by Donnie MacGowan and Frank Burgess
Following along Kilauea's East Rift Zone, Chain of Craters Road passes through an amazing array of rift volcanoes, pit craters, lava trenches and flow fields. Leaving Crater RIM Drive at the Devastation Trail parking lot, Chain of Craters Road traverses and opens-up some of the most wild and beautiful landscapes seen anywhere, terminating near the active lava flows from Kilauea Volcano.
Perhaps nowhere else on earth are the elements high mountains, wild seascapes and active volcanoes and their lava flows more dramatically displayed. Crazily switching-back repeatedly down the Holei Pali, Chain of Craters Road finally reaches the untamed and scenically wild coastline, where giant waves spray and spume over sea cliffs dozens of feet high. Towering steam plumes in the distance at the end of the road mark where unimaginably hot liquid rock pours into the wild, wild sea.
A place of mystery, a place of power, a place of wonder.
Altogether, Chain of Craters Road is a singular and essential addition to any visit to the Island of Hawai'i.
Once connecting Volcano Village through the Park to Puna and State Routes 130 and 137 at Kalapana, Chain of Craters Road has repeatedly been badly damaged by earthquake, buried in lava, re-routed and re-built and broken up and buried again. The current eruption, which began in 1983, has buried a significant portion of the currently-closed nine miles of road between its temporary end inside the Park at Holei Sea Arch (the 19 mile marker) and the eastern closure outside the town of Kalapana, beyond the eastern edge of the Park.
Big Island (Hawai'i Island), Hawaii 4K (UHD)
Recorded: May 2019
This is one of the three Hawaiian islands that I decided to visit. I spent three days there, drove 345 miles by car and visited, incl. the places described below.
I think that three days on such a large island is a bit too little. The distances between the points to travel are longer than on other Hawaiian islands.
Big Island, or Hawaiʻi Island is the largest and the southeasternmost island located in the U.S. state of Hawaii. The island of Hawaiʻi is the third largest island in Polynesia, behind the two main islands of New Zealand. Administratively, the whole island encompasses Hawaiʻi County. The county seat and largest city is Hilo where I lived.
00:00 Coconut Island, Hilo
03:37 Mauna Loa Macadamia Nut Farm and Factory, Hilo
05:25 Old Mamalahoa Hwy, East Big Island
07:09 Onomea Bay Trail, Old Mamalahoa Hwy
07:43 Laupahoehoe Lookout, Mamalahoa Hwy
07:56 Laupahoehoe Beach Park
09:41 Akaka Falls State Park
13:28 Mauna Kea, Saddle Rd
14:58 Mauna Kea, Access Rd
15:19 Mauna Kea 4,207 m. a.s.l., the highest point in the state of Hawaii
18:52 Mauna Loa Observatory Rd
19:42 Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park, Kilauea Volcano, Halemaumau Crater
21:39 Kilauea Iki Crater
24:57 Crater Rim Drive
25:18 Kilauea Volcano, Halemaumau Crater
27:48 Keanakakoi Crater, Kilauea Volcano
28:04 Kilauea Volcano, Halemaumau Crater
28:35 Crater Rim Drive
28:40 Chain of Craters Road
29:49 Kealakomo Overlook, Chain of Craters Road
30:50 Chain of Craters Rd
31:09 Holei Sea Arch, Chain of Craters Rd
31:45 Chain of Craters Rd
32:04 Green Sand Beach (Papakolea)
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Hawaii-10 Big Island - Chain of Craters Rd
Volcanoes National Park, drive down Chain of Craters Road to the coast where the lava flows block the road. Hikes through the 1979 lava flow, around the base of Mauna Ula, and out to Hilina Pali Overlook.
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Hawaii Volcanoes National Park - Chain of Craters Road - Southbound Drive (2018)
Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, established on August 1, 1916, is an American national park located in the U.S. state of Hawaii on the island of Hawaii. The park encompasses two active volcanoes: Kīlauea, one of the world's most active volcanoes, and Mauna Loa, the world's most massive shield volcano. The park provides scientists with insight into the birth and development of the Hawaiian Islands, and ongoing studies into the processes of volcanism. For visitors, the park offers dramatic volcanic landscapes, as well as glimpses of rare flora and fauna.
In recognition of its outstanding natural values, Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park was designated as an International Biosphere Reserve in 1980 and a World Heritage Site in 1987. In 2012, Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park was depicted on the 14th quarter of the America the Beautiful Quarters series.
On May 10, 2018 the park was closed to the public in the Kīlauea volcano summit area, including the visitor center and park headquarters, due to explosions and toxic ash clouds from Halemaʻumaʻu crater, as well as earthquakes and road damage. However, portions of the park, including the visitor center, reopened to the public on September 22, 2018.
Eruptive activity, ground collapses and explosions in the park ceased in early August. As of late September, the lull in eruptive activity at Kīlauea Volcano continues. At the summit, seismicity and deformation are negligible. Sulfur dioxide emission rates at both the summit and the Lower East Rift Zone are drastically reduced; the combined rate is lower than at any time since late 2007. Earthquake and deformation data show no net accumulation, withdrawal, or significant movement of subsurface magma or pressurization as would be expected if the system was building toward a resumption of activity.
Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii County, Hawaii, United States, North America
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, established in 1916, is a United States National Park located in the U.S. State of Hawaiʻi on the island of Hawaiʻi. It encompasses two active volcanoes: Kīlauea, one of the world's most active volcanoes, and Mauna Loa, the world's most massive volcano. The park gives scientists insight into the birth of the Hawaiian Islands and ongoing studies into the processes of vulcanism. For visitors, the park offers dramatic volcanic landscapes as well as glimpses of rare flora and fauna. In recognition of its outstanding natural values, Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park was designated as an International Biosphere Reserve in 1980 and a World Heritage Site in 1987. In 2000 the name was changed by the Hawaiian National Park Language Correction Act of 2000 observing the Hawaiian spelling. In 2012 the Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park was honored on the 14th quarter of the America the Beautiful Quarters collection. The park includes 323,431 acres (505.36 sq mi; 1,308.88 km2) of land. Over half of the park is designated the Hawaii Volcanoes Wilderness area and provides unusual hiking and camping opportunities. The park encompasses diverse environments that range from sea level to the summit of the Earth's most massive volcano, Mauna Loa at 13,677 feet (4,169 m). Climates range from lush tropical rain forests, to the arid and barren Kaʻū Desert. Active eruptive sites include the main caldera of Kīlauea and a more active but remote vent called Puʻu ʻŌʻō. The main entrance to the park is from the Hawaii Belt Road. The Chain of Craters Road, as the name implies, leads past several craters from historic eruptions to the coast. It used to continue to another entrance to the park near the town of Kalapana, but that portion is now covered by a lava flow. Kīlauea and its Halemaʻumaʻu caldera were traditionally considered the sacred home of the volcano goddess Pele, and Hawaiians visited the crater to offer gifts to the goddess. In 1790, a party of warriors (along with women and children who were in the area) were caught in an unusually violent eruption. Many were killed and others left footprints in the lava that can still be seen today. The first western visitors to the site, English missionary William Ellis and American Asa Thurston, went to Kīlauea in 1823. Ellis wrote of his reaction to the first sight of the erupting volcano: a spectacle, sublime and even appalling, presented itself before us. 'We stopped and trembled.' Astonishment and awe for some moments rendered us mute, and, like statues, we stood fixed to the spot, with our eyes riveted on the abyss below. The volcano became a tourist attraction in the 1840s, and local businessmen such as Benjamin Pitman and George Lycurgus ran a series of hotels at the rim. Volcano House is the only hotel or restaurant located within the borders of the National Park. In January 2010 it was closed temporarily for renovation; as of January 2011 it had not yet re-opened. Lorrin A. Thurston, grandson of the American missionary Asa Thurston, was one of the driving forces behind the establishment of the park after investing in the hotel from 1891 to 1904. William R. Castle first proposed the idea in 1903. Thurston, who then owned the Honolulu Advertiser newspaper, printed editorials in favor of the park idea. In 1907, the territory of Hawaii paid for fifty members of Congress and their wives to visit Haleakala and Kīlauea. It included a dinner cooked over lava steam vents. In 1908 Thurston entertained Secretary of the Interior James Rudolph Garfield, and in 1909 another congressional delegation. Governor Walter F. Frear proposed a draft bill in 1911 to create Kilauea National Park for $50,000. Thurston and local landowner William Herbert Shipman proposed boundaries, but ran into some opposition from ranchers. Thurston printed endorsements from John Muir, Henry Cabot Lodge, and former President Theodore Roosevelt. After several attempts, the legislation introduced by delegate Jonah Kūhiō Kalaniana'ole finally passed to create the park. House Resolution 9525 was signed by Woodrow Wilson on August 1, 1916. It was the 11th National Park in the United States, and the first in a Territory. Within a few weeks, the National Park Service Organic Act would create the National Park Service to run the system. Originally called Hawaii National Park, it was split from the Haleakalā National Park on September 22, 1960. An easily accessible lava tube was named for the Thurston family. An undeveloped stretch of the Thurston Lava Tube extends an additional 1,100 ft (340 m) beyond the developed area and dead-ends into the hillside. Though it is blocked by a chain link fence to keep unwary visitors from entering, the easily traversed stretch is in fact open to the public and accessible through a gate in the fence.
Volcanoes National Park: Chain of Craters Road, Big Island, Hawaii
This second part shows the Chain of Crater Roads, the main scenic drive of the park outside the Kilauea caldera. Along the roads several small craters, result of different eruptions, can be found. Most of the landscape is covered by blackened lava reaching the sea at a point where the road is closed because of recent eruptions.
Driving Chain of Craters Road in Hawai'i Volcanos National Park
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Driving from the roads end to the visitors centre along the Chain of Craters Road
Hawaii Big Island Volcanoes National Park Chain of Craters Road
Driving Chain of Craters Road from Holei Sea Arch to Jaggar Museum on the rim of the Caldera. Includes East section of Crater Rim Road. Crater Rim Road West of Jaggar Museum and West of Chain of Craters Road was closed August 7, 2015 due to large amounts of sulfur gas spewing from Kilauea covering the passage.
Chain of Craters Road work (11-05-14)
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End of Chain of Craters Road, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
The end of the Chain of Craters Road is currently around Mile Marker 19, just at the Holei Sea Arch. Good, if distant, viewing of the explosion cloud where lava enters the sea, displays about the volcano and natural history of the area, as well as a wealth of information on hiking to, and viewing, the lava, are available here. In addition, numerous sea arches, sea caves, fabulous bird watching, indescribable ocean views and some pretty good biking are to be found here. Even if the lava flows are too far away to be easily hiked to, the hike along the new land, twisted lava forms and endless basalt landscape is well worth the drive to the end of the road.
Over the months and years, the lava river issuing from Pu'u O'o winds its way back and forth across the lava plain of about 8 miles breadth, usually flowing into the sea within Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, but sometimes outside the eastern margin of the Park on County of Hawaii land, sometimes ponding behind the low lava hills for weeks at a time without entering the ocean at all. Check with the rangers about flow conditions; they can tell you the best way to approach these flows. Current eruption updates are available from the National Park Service by calling 808.985.600.
Written and produced by Donald B. MacGowan; videography by Donnie MacGowan and Frank Burgess; original musical score by Donald B. MacGowan.
For more information on visiting Hawaii in general, or the volcanoes of the Big Island in particular, please go to tourguidehawaii.com, lovingthebigisland.wordpress.com or tourguidehawaii.blogspot.com.
End of Chain of Craters Road, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
The end of the Chain of Craters Road is currently around Mile Marker 19, just at the Holei Sea Arch and about ½ mile from the National Park eruption viewing station. Good, if distant, viewing of the eruption, displays about the volcano and natural history of the area, as well as a wealth of information on hiking to, and viewing, the lava, are available here. In addition, numerous sea arches, sea caves, fabulous bird watching, indescribable ocean views and some pretty good biking are to be found here. Even if the lava flows are too far away to be easily hiked to, the hike along the new land, twisted lava forms and endless basalt landscape is well worth the drive to the end of the road.
Over the months and years, the lava river issuing from Pu'u O'o winds its way back and forth across the lava plain of about 8 miles breadth, usually flowing into the sea within Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, but sometimes outside the eastern margin of the Park on County of Hawaii land, sometimes ponding behind the low lava hills for weeks at a time without entering the ocean at all. Check with the rangers about flow conditions; they can tell you the best way to approach these flows. Current eruption updates are available from the National Park Service by calling 808.985.600. Listen to their advice, heed their warnings, especially if you plan to hike all the way to the lava flows.