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Reviewed guide · Hawaii

Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park

Unit code HAVO. Figures retrieved 2026-11-06. Official alerts, fees, and closures are not copied here.

Show on the atlas
Glowing lava lake emitting gasses from multiple weak areas in the crust.
Public-domain National Park Service photograph. Credit: NPS Photo/J.P. Eaton. Asset record.
States on the system list
Hawaii
Guide region
Hawaii. Editorial grouping of the state that contains the centroid, or the first listed state when the point is offshore.
Anniversary-table date
August 1, 1916

Table note: split into Haleakala National Park and Hawaii National Park in 1960; redesignated Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park in 1961

Gross area acres
344,812.18

NPS fee acres: 344,812.18. Report date September 30, 2026. Gross area is not the same column as fee ownership.

Boundary centroid
19.3031, -155.2395

Containing shoreline polygon: Hawaii. Not an entrance.

Recreation-visit record
Highest monthly mean is outside June–August

Highest mean: January. Lowest mean: September. Mean annual total across complete years: 1,475,477 (10 complete years).

The monthly record

January: 152,529 mean recreation visitsFebruary: 137,866 mean recreation visitsMarch: 125,708 mean recreation visitsApril: 109,683 mean recreation visitsMay: 101,382 mean recreation visitsJune: 120,505 mean recreation visitsJuly: 128,803 mean recreation visitsAugust: 122,170 mean recreation visitsSeptember: 100,130 mean recreation visitsOctober: 109,198 mean recreation visitsNovember: 122,466 mean recreation visitsDecember: 145,038 mean recreation visitsJFMAMJJASOND
Mean of reported recreation visits by calendar month, 2016–2025. Gold is the lowest mean and rust is the highest. A missing bar was not reported. This is a historic average, not a live crowd count.
Monthly recreation-visit record
MonthMeanLowest yearHighest yearYears in the mean
January152,52975,767197,83610
February137,86665,565180,29110
March125,70861,695174,69010
April109,68360163,03710
May101,382580155,71010
June120,5054,458180,13510
July128,8034,117201,55410
August122,1703,974183,30710
September100,13025,270141,37710
October109,19827,962147,22510
November122,46641,888162,03310
December145,03893,464177,59110

How to use this guide

Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park is on the system list in Hawaii, on an island the atlas draws in its own inset. The centroid is not a crater rim and not a lighthouse. Volcanic activity is a conditions question. This page does not say whether lava is moving, whether a road is open, or whether air quality is acceptable.

The monthly record here does not peak in midsummer the way many continental parks do. That is a description of reported recreation visits from 2016 through 2025, not advice that a particular month is safe. Read the park’s safety and conditions pages before you travel, and treat any eruption notice as newer than this guide.

Official pages

These links were checked when the site was built. A working link is not a live feed. If a standard address did not respond, it is omitted.

Nearest other national parks

Distances are great-circle miles between boundary centroids. They are not road distances or travel times.