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Mauna Ulu Lava Shield
Mauna Ulu
Mauna Ulu ("growing mountain") is a lava-shield cone built between 1969 and 1974 along the East Rift Zone of Kīlauea…
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How to visit
The Mauna Ulu lava field stretches for miles around you. The trail to the summit is hot, exposed, and the lava is sharp — bring water, sun protection, sturdy shoes. The vegetation establishing in cracks is fifty years of native plant succession on bare lava; do not collect plants, do not break stems. Hidden cracks in the surface are real and some are deep; stay on marked trails.
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