pmurphy

I found the park amazing when we visited in 2010!
We had not planned on doing anything special except view Kilauea, the sulfur banks and then drive to the end of the road but on the way down saw a parking lot with a look out and thought we would stop to see. Then we noticed a trail and thought we would take a little walk because the sign said only .5M (or something like that). What we did not realize until we had passed several signposts is that they were stating the distance between signposts, and without a map (which we bought on the way out of the park) we really did not know where we were going until we finally saw the bottom of the crater. From there we ended up hiking back across the Kilauea Iki crater. The whole trek took us about an hour or so - and we were lucky enough that the sky stayed clear during the entire unplanned hike....when we drove past on the way out of the park later that day, the crater was socked in with clouds.