Steam Vents
A fumarole area, hot steam rising from the ground, within Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park boundaries about seven miles from Volcano. Hawaii County. The walk in starts from the Hawaii Belt Road. Nothing in the record gives a water temperature and there is nowhere to bathe; the heat note reads hot and that is all. The site is open to the public.
Roughly a mile and a half of hiking separates the vents from the Hawaii Belt Road. Elevation is a bit over thirty-five hundred feet. This is rain country, eighty-some inches a year, and the snow total on file is zero. Days average in the mid sixties. The land is National Park Service property. Nothing on record describes the path.
Come for the steam, with no soak. Rain gear makes sense given the rainfall, though the record gives no best months, and with zero snow there is no closed season to speak of. Access is open, there is no fee noted, and no campground shows up within reach.
Aircraft with laser scanners measured this ground to within inches. The scan strips out trees and buildings, leaving the bare shape of the land around Steam Vents.
Drag the handle to compare the two views. 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
- 51 ft above the spring
- Within a quarter mile, to the east
A slice through the ground from west to east, 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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