Hawaii Forest and Trail Tours

Explore nature with the award winning Hawaii Forest and Trail in Hawaii. Heighten your sense of adventure as you discover the outstanding beauty of the Big Island. Your excursion with Hawaii Forest and Trail will take you on a trek to visit soaring summits, amazing volcanoes, tropical forests, and majestic waterfalls. Professional interpretive guides who are highly educated in natural history, geology, and ecology lead our tours. Hawaii Forest and Trail adventure guides will ensure a superior encounter with nature that will be informative and inspirational as you explore the natural wonders of Hawaii. You will enjoy the small tour group, allowing personal time to ask questions. Hawaii Forest and Trail guided tour company has over eighteen years of sharing the secrets of the Big Island to our guests. You will find your experience with Hawaii Forest and Trail Eco-tours will be extremely rewarding and will submerge you with a profound appreciation of the stunning wonders of nature in Hawaii. All tours include snacks, meals, beverages, access fees, day packs, walking staffs, rain gear, and warm wear gear. Hawaii Travel Network offers Mauna Lea Tours in Hilo and other Hawaii Activities with discounted prices.

Rob and Cindy Pacheco founded Hawaii Forest and Trail with the goal to conserve Hawaii’s natural resources at the same time sharing their love and knowledge of Hawaii’s natural wonders with guests visiting from all over the world. The Pachecos received the 2010 Business of the Year Award for their continued dedication to environmental education.

Hawaii Forest and Trail offers several breathtaking adventures on the Big Island. You will experience a vast array of micro-climate, terrain, and landscapes. Join us for an exploration of Hawaii that you will never forget.

Enjoy the drive as you climb 13,796 feet above sea level driving to the summit of Mauna Kea. The drive along the coast will provide breathtaking scenery as you travel over desolate lava flows, and up the rolling pasturelands. Saddle Road will take you between the two majestic volcanoes, Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa. The gorgeous landscapes of the dry forest and rainforest, and ranchland will astound you. Included in this drive will be sights of lava tubes, kipuka, cinder cones, and lava flows. Once you arrived at the summit you will see majestic views of Mauna Loa, Haleakala on Maui, and Hualalai. You will be standing on the world’s tallest mountain, measuring over 32,000 feet from the floor of the ocean to its summit. At the visitor’s center you can get up close and personal with nature using the world-class telescopes located on Mauna Kea and be awed with nature’s inspiring creation.

Volcano Tour: Twilight Volcano Adventure

The journey to the volcanoes takes you between Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea, two of the world’s largest volcanic mountains. The area between these two mountains is commonly referred to as “The Saddle” and rare plants and animals are found there. A brief stop at Mauna Kea State Park will be the next stop and then onto Hilo and the exploration of Kaumana Cave. The cave is a lava tube that pushed molten rock from Mauna Loa to the ocean leaving terrain that provides a subterranean adventure. The next adventure will be inside Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. The national park interpretive guides will share hidden treasures and interesting locations on this biosphere preserve such as cinder fields, native rainforests, steam vents, and much more. Conditions of the volcano consistently change, therefore the guides will check which eruptive site is active. Kalapan viewing area provides a dramatic witness to the power of lava as it flows into the ocean at sunset. Halemaumau Crater has a secluded lake that contains molten rock that glows after dark. The energy of these two areas will impress you and create a lasting memory of Hawaii vacation.

Waterfall Tour: Kohala Water Falls Adventure

“There is life in the rain” is the Hawaiian proverb that tells of the eternal cycle of water as it shapes the valleys, streams, cliffs, and landscapes of the islands. Rain always gives to the island the appearance of a dazzling countryside and provides free flowing waterfalls of Kohala. The journey begins with a drive to the fertile green country of Kohala taking you up the North Kona coastline traveling over lava flows left behind from the majestic Kohala, Mauna Kea, and Mauna Loa mountains. Keep an eye on the shoreline, you may be able to catch the sight of a spinner dolphin splashing, or in the migration months, a humpback whale breaching. Enjoy the charming plantation towns of Kapaau and Hawi where the life-size stature of King Kamehameha I is located. The road ends and you will climb onto our Pinzgauer and ride a bumpy but brief road to an old sugarcane road where the construction of the Kohala Ditch Trail begins. The ditch was built to irrigate the plantation sugar cane fields. You will witness the tunnels that were carved from solid rock, walk over two bridges and learn the history of this fantastic achievement that runs for 22 miles. The grand finale of the tour is the majestic, cascading waterfalls that add beauty to this historical area. This is an inspirational adventure for all to learn of Kohala’s “story of water.”

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