Hike to Puhia Pele

This is the crater that produced the lava that the Keahole Airport sits on. There is a new road bulldozed straight down to the crater from the upper road, about 60 yards Waimea of the second (not the whale) mailbox. The entire hike is on bulldozed roadway or actual roadway, and you don't have to ignore any "No Trespassing" signs. Puhia Pele is, in physical appearance, a red gash in the earth. The little peak in the picture is the mauka/Ka'u wall of the slit.