One of the best ways to see volcanoes in Hawaii is at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. The park surrounds two super volcanoes, including Mauna Loa, the biggest volcano in the world. One of the things you should do is a hike to flowing lava. National Park Service shares that you can hike and bicycle along the gravel emergency access route at the end of Chain of Craters Road to view and access lava as it flows down the Pūlama Pali and spreads out onto the coastal lava plain in the national park, an

Let’s take a peek into the hale (home) of an ʻuaʻu ʻohana (family). ʻUaʻu (Hawaiian petrels) are endangered seabirds that nest in high elevation burrows on Mauna Loa. We have monitored them here in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park since the early 1990s. ‘Uaʻu travel the vast Pacific Ocean feeding on squid and fish. Both parents forage for food to feed their chick. In late fall, young ʻuaʻu prepare to fledge and will leave their burrows in the dark of night. They will not return to land to nest on