Steam Vents
Steam vents on the lower, wetter side of Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park, a little over five miles from the town of Volcano, Hawaii County. Ground heat pushes vapor out of the rock. The record calls the steam hot and stops there, with no temperature reading and no pool. Access is open. This is a thing to look at, and it is reached on foot.
Reaching the vents means a hike, about a mile and change from the nearest road, which the record does not name. They sit around thirty-six hundred feet up in a wet zone where something like seventy-seven inches of rain falls most years. Snow never comes. Temperatures average in the low sixties. The land belongs to the National Park Service.
Expect rain in any month. No best season is on record, and with no snow to worry about the window is wide. There is no temperature to soak in and no fee listed. Nearest camping is not on file. A mile-plus walk each way is the commitment.
USGS hasn't flown a detailed laser scan here yet, so this view comes from aerial photos and older elevation data.
The orange dot marks the spring, in a frame about three quarters of a mile wide.
- Setting
- Open ground
- Flat, open ground all around.
- Highest ground nearby
- 12 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the southwest
A slice through the ground from northwest to southeast, about 0.6 miles end to end.
Elevation data: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Aerial imagery: USGS The National Map. Public domain.
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