Big Island Hawaii. Part 30. Crater Rim Drive.

December 2009. Music by: François De Roubaix.
The centerpiece of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park is the 11-mile Crater Rim Drive that circles Kilauea's summit caldera. If you only have a few hours in the park, this is a good way to hit the main attractions.

While circling the Kilauea cladera, this road passes through rainforest and desert, while providing access to numerous well-marked scenic stops and short walks. On the drive around the summit caldera, you will encounter sulphur banks, steam vents, pit craters, lava flows from eruptions in 1974 and 1982, areas recovering from the cinder fallout of the 1959 eruption, a walk through an underground lava tube, the Jaggar Museum, Halema'uma'u Crater, Devastation Trail, Kilauea Iki Crater, and the Thurston Lava Tube.

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[lawstudent84]

It was largely closed when I visited in May of this year.

[SpiderB52]

Check Volcano National Park information as this crater road is half closed since years ago and cannot go around the crater.