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No other area on the Big Island offers anything approaching the number and variety of trails you will find in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. All the Big Island backpacking trips that appear in this book are in the park. Kilauea’s latest eruption has severed the park’s road system from the Puna District’s Highway 130. Most of the park’s roads, and therefore most of the hikes in the park, are accessible only from the main entrance off Highway 11, 28 miles southwest of Hilo. Thirty-one of the thirty-four Hawaii Volcanoes National Park trips in this book originate southwest of Hilo. They are ssss1 through ssss1.

A left turn from Highway 11 brings you to the toll booths of the entrance station. Just past the entrance station, a right turn brings you to the park’s remaining visitor center, Kilauea Visitor Center. This is an excellent place to stop, take advantage of the restrooms and water fountains, stretch your legs, enjoy the interpretive displays, perhaps buy some books and maps, and get information from the rangers at the front desk. A number of outstanding park trails begin just across the street from Kilauea Visitor Center, near Volcano House (which sits on the rim of Kilauea Crater but is well-hidden from the visitor center by a charming grove of ohia trees and tree ferns). Hikes from Kilauea Visitor Center appear first of those park hikes that originate southwest of Hilo. They are ssss1 through ssss1.