Expert hike. Very good fitness required. Easily-accessible paths. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: June 7, 2024

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67 m

Summit Building

Freedom must be limitless above the clouds... :-)

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1.71 km

Keonehe‘ehe‘e Trail (Sliding Sands)

Sliding Sands is the trail that takes you into the crater of the Haleakala volcano. The other name for this trail is Keonehe'ehe'e. This section is the most spectacular because it is panoramic. It offers you lunar views, at 360°.

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2.53 km

Keonehe‘ehe‘e Trail (Sliding Sands) Middle Segment

Grandiose play of colors of the different shades of sand.

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8.77 km

Volcanic landscape at Keonehe‘ehe‘e trail

Keonehe'ehe'e trail runs along this breathtaking scenery worthy of the idea we have of the planet Mars. You can see red sand dunes, fields of volcanic stones but also this …

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12.4 km

Kawilinau (Bottomless Pit)

This so-called bottomless hole actually forms a projection of about twenty meters. Unless we refer to the Hawaiian legend according to which it would descend to the depths of the …

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12.7 km

Pele's Paint Pot

Pele's Paint Pot is a passage formed on a ridge between two sandy hills. The particularity of this path is the rainbow formed on the ground by the oxidized sands at different degrees. It is simply spectacular and unmissable.

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18.5 km

Split Rock (Keoneheʻeheʻe Trail, Haleakalā Wilderness)

Split Rock, as its name suggests, is a large rock cut in half. The Keonehe'ehe'e trail passes right in the middle, between the two parts of the rock.

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22.8 km

End point

Parking

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

18.3 km

2.64 km

1.85 km

< 100 m

Surfaces

14.6 km

5.93 km

1.92 km

250 m

< 100 m

Elevation

Weather

Sunday 28 September

20°C

9°C

12 %

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Keonehe‘ehe‘e (Sliding Sands) Trail Loop to Bottomless Pit — Haleakalā National Park

Summit Building

Keonehe‘ehe‘e Trail (Sliding Sands)

Keonehe‘ehe‘e Trail (Sliding Sands) Middle Segment

Volcanic landscape at Keonehe‘ehe‘e trail

Kawilinau (Bottomless Pit)

Pele's Paint Pot

Split Rock (Keoneheʻeheʻe Trail, Haleakalā Wilderness)

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