Red Road (Hwy 137)

What remains of Highway 137 still runs through small farms, individual homesteads, and the lower Puna community. Most of what's visible off the road is private. Do not park on residential side streets, do not enter posted areas, do not photograph homes or people. The named beach parks — MacKenzie, Kehena — remain the right places to stop. Drive slowly; the curves are constant and there are sections with limited visibility. The buried sections are not viewing platforms — they are an active geologic landscape and, in places, the line between living homesteads and the lava that took them. Treat the cracked pavement and the new lava bench accordingly.