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To savor an extended visit to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, stay in Volcano village or in the park itself if possible. But Hilo is close enough to the park if those places are booked or are priced out of your range.

Be sure you have a good road map of Hawaii to supplement these instructions.

Permit/permission required

Some trips require you to have someone’s permission to camp. This section will tell you what you need permission for, if anything, and whom to apply to. See Getting Permits or Permission and ssss1 in this book for addresses and telephone numbers.

Description

This is the detailed description of the trip as I perceived it. I’ve tried to give you an idea of the more obvious plants and other features you’ll find, where the rough spots are, when you’ll be ascending and when descending, where viewpoints are, and what you’ll see from those viewpoints.

On some trips, the trail is faint to nonexistent, and the agency in charge has attempted to mark the route by tying tags of colored plastic ribbon to plants along the route. You navigate by moving from tag to tag. I found route-tagging on the island of Hawaii to be largely unreliable, I’m sorry to say. Don’t count on tags to get you in and out of an area. Always keep track of where you’ve been by map and compass or by landmarks, as the tags can be misleading or can just peter out.