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In 2021, Mauna Loa won the NOSH Best Packaging Award. In 2022, Mauna Loa installed a 1.2 MW solar farm (2,916 panels) and 500 kW battery storage system onsite to help power the facility. The Mauna Loa Visitor Center was renovated in 2022 after being closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The park on the island of Hawaii is home to Kīlauea and Mauna Loa, two of the most active and among the best studied volcanoes in the world. Mauna Loa reaches 13,680 ft (4,170 m) above the sea level, but measured from the ocean floor, it is the world's greatest volcanic mass.
The trailhead is located at the Visitor Information Station of the Onizuka Center at 9,200 ft (2,804 m) (). The center is accessible by car from the Saddle Road (Hawaii Route 200) and then north on the Mauna Kea Access Road. Registration is requested and a drop box is available for hikers who start before the visitor center opens.
Like all Hawaiian volcanoes, Mauna Loa was created as the Pacific tectonic plate moved over the Hawaii hotspot in the Earth's underlying mantle. [10] The Hawaii island volcanoes are the most recent evidence of this process that, over 70 million years, has created the 3,700 mi (6,000 km)-long Hawaiian–Emperor seamount chain. [11]
In the southwestern portion of the park, a large chunk of wilderness includes several miles of coastline and a small portion southeast of the visitors center. The park encompasses diverse environments from sea level to the summit of the Earth's most massive active volcano, Mauna Loa, at 13,679 feet (4,169 m).
Haleakalā National Park is a national park of the United States located on the island of Maui, Hawaii.Named after Haleakalā, a dormant volcano within its boundaries, the park covers an area of 33,265 acres (52.0 sq mi; 134.6 km 2), [1] of which 24,719 acres (38.6 sq mi; 100.0 km 2) is a wilderness area. [3]
An enterprising Hawaiian was reported to have set up a small thatched hut in the early 1840s to sell food to visitors, who by then included sightseers as well as explorers. [4] Charles Wilkes camped in this area on the United States Exploring Expedition in 1840, on his way to Mauna Loa. [5]
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