{"id":1232,"date":"2016-07-31T06:55:43","date_gmt":"2016-07-31T16:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hilovacationhomes.com\/?post_type=flawles_hilo_east&p=1232"},"modified":"2022-07-24T04:46:59","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T14:46:59","slug":"see-lava-flow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hilovacationhomes.com\/see-lava-flow\/","title":{"rendered":"How to See the Lava Flow"},"content":{"rendered":"
How Do I Find Lava! (updated July, 2022)<\/strong><\/p>\n Go to Hawaii Volcano National Park (HVNP).<\/p>\n In short, lava is slowly filling up the Halema’uma’u crater in HVNP.\u00a0 This is the Kilauea’s crater that you overlook when you are at the park.\u00a0 After the 2018 lava flow near the coast the crater collapsed and grew in size – by a lot. This means the funnel shaped crater is filling up very slowly.\u00a0 The good news is that the crater has filled up enough to see the small flows.\u00a0 These are just small orange sightings from about a mile away.\u00a0 But seeing it is easy.<\/p>\n To get the latest viewing information from the park service, click this link: https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/havo\/planyourvisit\/eruption-viewing.htm<\/a><\/p>\n As you enter the park the Visitor Center is to the right.\u00a0 The best viewing is the Devastation Trail if you go left instead.\u00a0 It is down the road a few miles and parking is very limited.\u00a0 There are less people during the day and more at night when you can see the glow better.\u00a0 You need to walk a mile each way!\u00a0 It is a lot of walking to see small orange dots of lava flow.\u00a0 The level of the lava is at the cusp of viewing from the Volcano House, right across from the Visitor Center and from the viewing area at the old Jagger Museum.\u00a0 These require almost no walking.\u00a0 You can even get a nice meal while viewing the crater at the restaurant in Volcano House.<\/p>\n You can also view the activity by a helicopter tour, but from a distance that is so far away as to be meaningless.\u00a0 Helicopter tours area a great way to see the history of the lava flows.\u00a0 The last 40 years have seen whole neighborhoods covered in lava.\u00a0 I have booked a couple trips and I recommend them.\u00a0 But you won’t get a good view of the current flow.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Island is made up – mostly – of 3 volcanos:<\/p>\n BELOW IS HISTORY FROM MY PRIOR POSTINGS:<\/strong><\/p>\n The lava comes from a vent\/crack on the side of the mountain.\u00a0 The lava is fed by Kilauea.\u00a0 Prior to May, 2018 lava flowed through a vent called Pu\u2019u o\u2019o.\u00a0 This was about midway down from the caldera and was basically inaccessible because there were no road anywhere nearby.\u00a0 This vent erupted in 1983 and been flowing out of the vent almost continuously .\u00a0 It is the only volcano in the world to flow continuously.\u00a0 What happened about May 3, 2018?A newe set of fissures\/cracks opened up much closer to the coast.\u00a0 Lava drained out of Kilauea and Pu’u 0’0 and poured out of these new fissures.\u00a0 Because this was in a residential neighborhood, it was a huge event.\u00a0 Not only lava, but vent gases vastly increased, affecting every place southwest or west, depending on wind direction.\u00a0 The area was open only to residents, making viewing by tourists impossible.\u00a0 In early June, the new lava flow started flowing into the ocean, creating new land.<\/p>\n This changed again on August 15th when the lava flow stopped entirely. This means there is no way to see lava at the moment.\u00a0 The Volcano National Park was closed for several reasons (air quality, road cracks and a crumbling and expanding crater now that there was no lava pool to support the sides).\u00a0 As of late September, ,2019, the park is now open!\u00a0 There has never been much to see and do there and now that there is no lava activity, there is even less to see and do.\u00a0 However, it is a popular place to go.\u00a0 Just don’t spend too much time there<\/p>\n How to view the active lava flow?\u00a0 Three ways:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How Do I Find Lava! (updated July, 2022) Go to Hawaii Volcano National Park (HVNP). In short, lava is slowly filling up the Halema’uma’u crater in HVNP.\u00a0 This is the Kilauea’s crater that you overlook when you are at the park.\u00a0 After the 2018 lava flow near the coast the crater collapsed and grew in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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