Big Island · Volcano
Devastation Trail
Devastation Trail is a 0.5-mile paved boardwalk through the area of native ʻōhiʻa-koa forest killed in 1959 by tephra (cinder, pumice, ash) from the Kīlauea…
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How to visit
The boardwalk is paved and ADA-accessible; stay on it. The cinder fields off the trail are fragile recovering native habitat — every footprint slows the recovery. The dead ʻōhiʻa skeletons standing in the cinder are the trees that died in 1959; do not break off pieces. The new ʻōhelo and koa establishing in soil cracks are the next generation of native forest; do not collect berries.
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