CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
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184 km from Volcano to Volcano, about 5 h 27 of riding. On the way it passes Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Mauna Loa and Kilauea Volcanoes and back through Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,400 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
Above the town of Volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii, the rain falls on a forest that has barely changed in a long time. The Ola'a Forest Tract is a patch of native rainforest on the flank of Kilauea, part of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, which together with the volcanoes Mauna Loa and Kilauea is a World Heritage site, inscribed in 1987. It sits at around 1,200 metres, where clouds drift in each afternoon, and the trees drip with moisture. The canopy is made of ohia lehua, a tree with brilliant red pom-pom flowers, and beneath it grow giant tree ferns called hapuu, with fronds that unfurl like croziers, and a thick understorey of native shrubs, mosses and orchids.
Read the complete Ola'a Forest Tract write-up.
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Ola'a Forest Tract is where the day begins. Next is Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.
Pele, the goddess of fire, is said to live in Halemaumau, the crater at the summit of Kilauea, and visitors who throw offerings into the steam do so with some seriousness. The Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, on the south-east side of the Big Island, covers two of the world's most active volcanoes: Kilauea, which has erupted on and off for centuries, and Mauna Loa, the largest active volcano on Earth, with a summit 4,169 metres above the sea and a base on the ocean floor far below. They are shield volcanoes, built of thousands of thin lava flows, and their slopes rise so gently that you hardly notice how high you are. The park is a World Heritage site, listed in 1987.
Read the complete Hawaii Volcanoes National Park write-up.
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Hawaii Volcanoes National Park comes up 39 km in. Next is Mauna Loa and Kilauea Volcanoes.
Hawaii's Big Island is still being built, and here you can stand on the evidence. Mauna Loa rises to about four thousand two hundred metres above sea level and is the largest active volcano on Earth by volume, while Kilauea beside it has been one of the most active, with eruptions that have repeatedly reshaped the south-east coast. The two together form the heart of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, which is a World Heritage site. Mauna Loa itself woke in 2022 after thirty-eight years of quiet, a reminder that the mountain is not a museum piece.
Read the complete Mauna Loa and Kilauea Volcanoes write-up.
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78 km in you reach Mauna Loa and Kilauea Volcanoes. Next is back through Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Hawaii Volcanoes National Park write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
back through Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, late in the day. Next is Ola'a Forest Tract.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Ola'a Forest Tract write-up.
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Back at Ola'a Forest Tract. That is the ride.
Ola'a Forest Tract → Hawaii Volcanoes National Park is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park → Mauna Loa and Kilauea Volcanoes is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Mauna Loa and Kilauea Volcanoes → back through Hawaii Volcanoes National Park is 54 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
back through Hawaii Volcanoes National Park → Ola'a Forest Tract is 23 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.