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About this location:
State Park
Hours
Daily During Daylight Hours
Entrance Fee
- None
About
A rest stop with an opportunity to picnic among a collection of native and introduced trees. A 2-mile nature hike through the adjacent Manukā Natural Area Reserve offers an experience in Hawaiian natural history. Open shelter camping. (13.4 acres)
Manukā offers open shelter camping at a single site.
Manukā Natural Area Reserve
On the flank of leeward Mauna Loa in South Kona, Manukā Natural Area Reserve is a 25,ooo-acre reserve encompassing a wide range of habitats. These include subalpine shrublands and forests, mesic montane kipuka forests, wet montane forests, lowland mesic forests and lowland dry forests.
Recent lava flows add a variety of pioneer vegetation types, as well as uncharacterized and unsurveyed lava tubes. Concentrations of the Hawaiian hoary bat occur in the area. A rare lowland grassland and anchialine pools are included as well.
Natural Communities : 17 total, 3 rare
Native Plants : 187 total taxa, 10 rare
Native Animals : 7 total taxa, 3 rare
Activities
- Camping
- Hiking
Facilities
- Campsites
- No Drinking Water
- Restroom
- Trash Cans
Camping
Fees start at $12 per campsite per night.
Prohibited
- No Animals/Pets
- No Alcoholic Beverages
- No Littering/Dumping
- No Smoking
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