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 Crater Rim Road is an 11-mile loop drive and can take 1 to 3 hours to explore depending on frequency and length of your stops. It is located near the famous Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. The first signs of volcanic activity you see are sulphur and steam vents along the road side. These areas can...
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 The Chain of Craters Road, on the Big Island of Hawaii, is a 20-mile, paved road that is located in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. It connects and provides visitor's access to a series of volcanic features including craters, active and dormant lava flows, and scenic views of tropical rain forests, ...
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 The drive is also commonly called 'Onomea Scenic Drive or Pepeekeo Scenic Drive.'
North of Hilo is the Pepeekeo Scenic Drive. At Pepeekeo you’ll be drenched with beauty. And we do mean drenched. You’ll see one of Hawaii’s most beautiful lava coastlines, surf-drenched coves, waterfalls which gush into flowing streams, and jungles so thick...
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This road goes around Hilo International Airport and then inland as the Hawaii Belt Rd through the volcano area and continues around the south and southwest coasts as Mamalahoa Hwy to Kailua Kona. It is 126 miles from Hilo by this southern route.
From Kailua-Kona, the Mamalohoa Hwy is a winding up-country route to Waimea. The Queen Kaahumanu Hwy is a straight, well-maintained road that follows a coastal route to Kawaih...
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 Winding its way between the two highest points on the Big Island---Mauna Kea to the north and Mauna Loa to the south---Saddle Rd. (Rte. 200) is an adventurous journey through a topographical cross-section of Hawaii.
From the Kona Coast, the road first climbs the slopes of Mauna Kea. As the road climbs out of the rolling grasslands of Parker Ranch...
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Known as the "old road" around the island, it goes from Honoka'a to Waimea. It is a dramatic ride going from the lava caves and pasture land in Waimea to the lush, tropical rain forests of Honokaa.
The legend of the naming of Mamalahoa Highway is that it was named after the "Law of the Splintered Paddle," where Kamehameha the Great guaranteed all his subjects safe and free access to the kigdom highways. The law was rep...
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The touristy seaside village of Kailua-Kona, at the base of the 8,271-ft Mt. Hualalai, has many historic sites tucked among the open-air shops and restaurants that line Ali'i Drive, its main oceanfront street. This is where King Kamehameha I died in 1819 and where his successor, Liholiho, broke the kapu (taboo) system, a rigid set of laws that had provided the framework for Hawaiian government. The following year, on Apri...
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 Located on the North East coast of Hawaii, Mauna Kea's slopes were formed by the pounding surf. Known for it's ravines, forests and rocky coastline leading from the ocean, it previously was home to sugarcane fields. This northern coast has wild and remote beaches....
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Banyan Tree Drive is composed of a canopy of banyan trees outlining the Waiakea Peninsula. The Hilo Parks commission began lining the entire drive with banyan trees in 1933, most have plaques denoting which celebrity planted them and when. The penisula features hotels lining the ocean and a golf course in the center. Walking, jogging, and biki...
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