Bryce Canyon National Park: Canyon Trail Ride — National Parks With T

Welcome back to National Parks and other public lands with T! Bryce Canyon National Park is famous for its rock formations called hoodoos, spires of red rock rising from the canyon floor. Not actually a canyon, Bryce is an amphitheater filled with a maze of hoodoos. We didn’t have enough time to do this beautiful…Bryce Canyon … Continue reading Bryce Canyon National Park: Canyon Trail Ride — National Parks With T

Capitol Reef -Hickman Bridge : Featured on JustGoTravelStudios.com — National Parks With T

Welcome back to National Parks & other public lands with T! My friends at Just Go Travel Studios have featured my post on the Hickman Bridge Hike in their article 11 Best Day Hikes in Capitol Reef Park. I love the charts they provide that plot hikes based on elevation gain and distance…makes it easy… via … Continue reading Capitol Reef -Hickman Bridge : Featured on JustGoTravelStudios.com — National Parks With T

Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park: Chain of Craters

Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park: Kīlauea Iki

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Kīlauea Iki is a crater next to the main summit caldera of Kīlauea in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park on the big island of Hawaii. This crater was a lava lake in 1959 with fountains spewing molten lava up to 1900 feet in the air. This activity lasted for several months until the fountains fizzled out in November of 1959.

Today, visitors can view the crater from the Kīlauea Iki Overlook. There is no longer molten lava here and the crater is vast (though compared to the main crater, it’s small or ‘Iki’.) It’s a mile long and 400 feet deep.

The 2018 eruption and its accompanying earthquakes damaged the Kīlauea Iki Trail. It was still…

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Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park: Steam Vents

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After visiting Volcano House and the park’s visitor center in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, our tour continued on to the Steam Vents parking lot. We walked through a grassy meadow to the caldera’s edge.

From this paved path, we could see steam billowing out of the earth in places. A few feet down, the ground is so hot that trees can’t take root here, but the tall grasses thrive.

The steam vents are caused by groundwater seeping through to the hot volcanic rock below. When it makes contact with the hot rocks, it is expelled back up through fractures in the earth as steam.