Ainapo Trail

Ainapo Trail is a 18.32-mile out-and-back foot trail in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii. It climbs 5,826 ft to a high point of 13,277 ft. Difficulty: very strenuous, from the NPS hiking-rating formula.

Ainapo Trail, Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park
Photo: Sketch by Charles Wilkes. Engraved by J.N. Gimbrede. · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

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