01-13-2014, 08:30 AM
[quote]Originally posted by bananahead
FWIW
all that lava viewing area except the main road area IS Private Property... its owned by someone, and anyone who doesnt live there IS TRESPASSING!!.. read the signage!
....unless you walk the shoreline (like I always do)
Its Law in Hawaii that we are all able to walk ever foot of every shoreline on all the main islands (ie its 100% legal to walk right behind those cliff houses in HPP)...
Well bananahead,please correct me if I am wrong, but I understood that the lava flow past Kalapana gardens. end of road and covered old chain of craters road (county viewing area south) belongs to Hawaii County and further south then there are signs indicating the HVNP boundries. All of the subdivisons in puna, HPP, Orchidland, for example are "private" however when one stays on the roads and does not step off onto individual lots implied permission is given to the public to be on the roads in the private subdivisions. By this understanding one can camp on the lava flow past the county viewing area and walk across the lava flow along the course of the old now covered chain of craters road until getting to the park boundry, the way I go then I head toward the coast and along to lava entry when active.. I have always tried to respect and not tresspass on individually owned lots. When I've gone into Kalapana Gardens I walk only on the roads. At the end of the road is the fault along the graben. Then near the coast climb the grabben and there is a trail all the way to Fox's landing along the kipuka.
FWIW
all that lava viewing area except the main road area IS Private Property... its owned by someone, and anyone who doesnt live there IS TRESPASSING!!.. read the signage!
....unless you walk the shoreline (like I always do)
Its Law in Hawaii that we are all able to walk ever foot of every shoreline on all the main islands (ie its 100% legal to walk right behind those cliff houses in HPP)...
Well bananahead,please correct me if I am wrong, but I understood that the lava flow past Kalapana gardens. end of road and covered old chain of craters road (county viewing area south) belongs to Hawaii County and further south then there are signs indicating the HVNP boundries. All of the subdivisons in puna, HPP, Orchidland, for example are "private" however when one stays on the roads and does not step off onto individual lots implied permission is given to the public to be on the roads in the private subdivisions. By this understanding one can camp on the lava flow past the county viewing area and walk across the lava flow along the course of the old now covered chain of craters road until getting to the park boundry, the way I go then I head toward the coast and along to lava entry when active.. I have always tried to respect and not tresspass on individually owned lots. When I've gone into Kalapana Gardens I walk only on the roads. At the end of the road is the fault along the graben. Then near the coast climb the grabben and there is a trail all the way to Fox's landing along the kipuka.