Aloha Junction

Top choice in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park


Master gardener and owner, Robert, can help unlock the mysteries of Volcano and Hawaiʻi while cooking up a hearty all-day breakfast at this historic plantation-executive's vacation-home. Modern rooms, done up Pottery Barn-esque, are cosy and upscale while the whole setup is big on hospitality and is a convenient walking distance to village restaurants.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park attractions

1. Niaulani Campus

0.29 MILES

On the edge of an old-grown ohia forest, this campus of the main Volcano Art Center gallery in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park showcases spillover and…

2. Volcano Garden Arts

0.93 MILES

Do your Big Island art shopping at this gallery and studio in the fern forest. Walls and tables overflow with paintings, handicrafts and jewelry produced…

3. Kilauea Iki Overlook

0.98 MILES

When 'Little Kilauea' burst open in a fiery inferno in November 1959, it filled the crater with a roiling lake of molten rock fed by a 1900ft fountain…

4. Thurston Lava Tube

1.04 MILES

On Kilauea's eastern side, Crater Rim Dr passes through a rainforest thick with tree ferns and ohia trees to the overflowing parking lot for ever-popular…

5. Kilauea Visitor Center & Museum

1.32 MILES

Stop here first on your visit to Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park. Extraordinarily helpful (and remarkably patient) rangers and volunteers can advise you…

6. Volcano Art Center

1.38 MILES

Near the Kilauea Visitor Center, this sharp local art gallery spotlights museum-quality pottery, paintings, woodwork, sculpture, jewelry, Hawaiian quilts…

7. Puʻu Puaʻi Overlook

1.48 MILES

Pu'u Pua'i (Gushing Hill) formed when cinder and ash spewing from the 1959 Kilauea Iki fountain was carried southwest on the wind, piling on the rim and…

8. Sulphur Banks

1.65 MILES

A wooden boardwalk weaves between misty, rocky vents stained chartreuse, yellow, orange and other psychedelic colors by tons of sulfur-infused steam…