🌋HAWAIIAN VOLCANO OBSERVATORY REPORT
Sept. 30, 2026
#KILAUEA
A shallow intrusion of magma is occurring within the summit region near the existing eruption location in #HawaiiVolcanoesNP.
N & S vents continue to spatter.
Current activity restricted to the summit of Kīlauea.
IMG: @janice_weicool

Special limited edition campfire mug is online! 😍
Join us as we celebrate 110 years of sharing and caring for the living culture, unique biology, and powerful geology of Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park. Mahalo for showing your aloha for this incredible place!
#HawaiiVolcanoesNP #LimitedMug #SnatchIt

A 33-year-old Hawaiʻi man has died after being found in a closed area of Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park last week. Park officials say the volcano was not erupting at the time of the incident.

#HawaiiVolcanoesNP

A walk around #HawaiiVolcanoesNP reveals historic roads, landmarks, trails, buildings. Much of this infrastructure was built nearly a century ago by the young men of the #CivilianConservationCorps (CCC) between 1934 & 1942.

StoryMap, CCC: A Community Builds a Park:
www.nps.gov/.../civilian...

Sometimes, timing is EVERYTHING. 🌈🌋🕊
#HawaiiVolcanoesNP
Photographer @aloha_kainoa.y (IG) was greeted by a beautiful rainbow/fogbow, & wrote: With quick hands & a bit of luck, I managed to capture this shot of a #nēnē pair flying high above.

@pro_camera_hawaii
@canonusa EOS R5 Mark II, Rf 15-35mm

💧 Got Water?
Pls bring your own water when visiting Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park. The water station at Kīlauea Visitor Center is unavailable during renovations. A drinking fountain is available at Uēkahuna & a bottle filling station will be reinstalled there soon.🚰
#HawaiiVolcanoesNP #BringWater

Hawaiʻi Volcanoes NP Construction #Update.
The Uēkahuna observation deck opened in May & its comfort station should open before the end of Sept. The new roundabout traffic circle near the park entrance is done & the add'l entrance lane for park staff & partners will be done soon.
#HawaiiVolcanoesNP

You’ve heard of Flock of Seagulls, but have you met our flock of nēnē? 😍 Our Elena at our HVNP park store has her hands full with this plushgoose gang, literally! 🪿🪿🪿🪿🪿🪿🪿

Shop nēnē plush: shop.hawaiipacificparks.org/products/plu...

#neneplushie #nēnēplush #hawaiivolcanoesnp #hppa #parksupport

#Hawaiian 🌺 2014; Ka pele ʻana o #Kīlauea Volcano, aia ma ka lua pele ʻo Puʻu ʻŌʻō ma loko o #hawaiivolcanoesnp, me nā kahawai pele e ʻōniʻoniʻo ana i kahakai. ʻOiai ʻo kēia kaʻina hana i ʻāina hou, hoʻopau pū kekahi i kekahi poʻe kamaʻāina pele mua. 🌿🌋

Let's take a #WayBackWednesday trip to 2014 and the eruption of #Kīlauea Volcano, which was then happening at Puʻu ʻŌʻō Crater within #hawaiivolcanoesnp, with slow streams of lava meandering down to the coast. While this process makes new land, it also extinguishes some early lava field settlers. 🌿🌋

NPS VIP photographer @janice_weicool has an eye for the unusual & sublime at our partner #hawaiivolcanoesnp, like this capture of Wahinekapu (Steaming Bluff). Many of you have wandered in wonder in that misty place along the crater rim 🌫️🌋, but here is a perspective rarely seen 👀.
Have you been here?

Park rangers, the NPS Passport stamp station, Junior Ranger books, visitor services and the Hawaii Pacific Parks Association store are now located at the temporary Welcome Center at Kilauea Military Camp on Crater Rim Drive east located about 1.2 miles from the closed center.
#HawaiiVolcanoesNP

We just had a winner but your guess is so specific (and correct) about location that you get a sticker, too, so message a mailing address and we will get it in the mail to you today.
PS: it is a 2-sided blanket we just got at our #HawaiiVolcanoesNP park store!🌋

DING DING DING!
Our new #HawaiiVolcanoesNP 2-sided picnic and camping blanket! Good job, Noah. Message a mailing address and we will get the sticker to you in the mail today!

HPPA’s Pete likes to roam the trails of the Kahuku Unit of our partner Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park.🦉
Pete captions this photo: The Departure: You can fill yourself with someone’s wishes or fly away on silent wings.
#TeamHPPA #ThisIsWhereWeWork #HawaiiVolcanoesNP #KahukuUnit #OwlLove #ThanksPete

The super creative folks at #pacificnorthnestdesigns not only create these epic kiddo trucker hats for us at @hawaiivolcanoesnp, they come to visit the park & do their own modeling!
Shop: shop.hawaiipacificparks.org/products/hat...

#hawaiivolcanoes #kidshats #nenehat #truckerhat