"Weather was miserably blustery, cold, and wet, but we still went and looked! Mom stayed in the vehicle, sadly. Would love to come back and explore more on a day the weather is not so bad. Such a cool experience, even if we couldn't really see much of anything. " — psychikingjes • Mar 12, 2023

"This was the highlight of this year's Hawaii trip! We drove to the summit, but then we backpacked down into the crater, which is unworldly! Weather was kinda crappy the whole time we were there, but that brought out the colors more. What an amazing place!" — Kevin • May 31, 2016

"A friend of mine introduced me to this absurd challenge. The Sea-to-Summit bike route climbs 10,000 vertical feet in 36 miles from the north shore of Maui to the summit of Haleakala. The longest paved climb in the world! As a novice cyclist, such a thing seemed completely out of reach. But when I mentioned it to my wife, she said “You should just do it.” Easy for her to say right? But the challenge was on. To prepare, I emailed some bikesexual friends for advice and logged a couple of short rides back home… but make no mistake, I was coming in cold. According to strava, my biggest hill climb ever on a bike was 500 ft. This would be 20x that! So I went into this with the plan that I’d just turn around if I hit the wall too hard. The only things I was banking on were that a rental bike would be so much better than my own and the average 5.1% grade would be gradual enough for me to somehow keep going. Things started off on the wrong foot. I had read online that it’s “mandatory” to start by putting a foot in the ocean (I asked the guy at the bike shop about this and he shrugged suggesting it was a completely stupid idea). But what the hell, I decided might as well d..." — scott • Nov 4, 2014

"Not a difficult summit to get to. It's a drive up. Great sunrise. I spent the day hiking around in the crater. Very interesting place. Quite a variety of landscape in such a small area." — MangyMarmot • Aug 4, 2012

"one of my favorite volcano experiences, i been lucky enough to hike this several times from all the various sides my favorite being the kaupo gap up the easiest being down sliding sands." — kiwi • Feb 14, 2011

"Can you call it bagging a peak when all you have to do is drive up the road to the summit? There are some great trails from the summit .. we took a 5 mile trek along the Sliding Sands trail to a cinder cone. http://www.trailspotting.com/2008/05/haleakala-volcano-trail.html" — trailspotting • May 1, 2008

"First time in Maui. Had to go to the top. Easy drive to the summit with a very short hike to the 10,023 ft spot. Neat silversword plants and great view if the clouds are away." — srphilip • Feb 13, 2005