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  1. 1Tongariro Alpine CrossingTongariro Alpine CrossingThe one-day volcano walk by which others get measured. The track climbs to Red Crater, its highest point at 1,886 meters, then drops down loose volcanic scree to the startlingly colored Emerald Lakes, with steam vents along the way. It is a long day, nine hours by the conservation department's…0
  2. 2Kīlauea IkiKīlauea IkiKīlauea Iki Trail, Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park The best way to understand a lava lake is to walk across one. This loop descends 400 feet through rainforest to the solidified floor of Kīlauea Iki crater, then crosses the cracked crust past the vent below Puʻupuaʻi cinder cone, where lava…0
  3. 3Haleakalā National ParkHaleakalā National ParkKeoneheʻeheʻe (Sliding Sands) Trail Walk straight down from the summit visitor center into a landscape of rust, black and ocher cinder cones. The "crater floor" is 3.9 miles down, an almost 2,500-foot descent, and the full crossing to the Halemauʻu trailhead is a classic 11-mile day past Pele's…0
  4. 4Craters of the Moon National Monument and PreserveCraters of the Moon National Monument and PreserveNorth Crater Trail Idaho's lava fields look unfinished, as if the eruptions stopped last week, and the pick for walkers is the North Crater Trail: 3.5 miles round trip with 758 feet of climbing, along the rim of North Crater, down into the mouth of the vent that fed the North Crater flow, past the…0
  5. 5Lassen Volcanic National ParkLassen Volcanic National ParkBumpass Hell Trail This is where you see a volcano breathing. The park says its hottest and most vigorous hydrothermal features are at Bumpass Hell, and a three-mile round-trip trail, first built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1935, leads to a boardwalk that threads the basin's boiling…0
  6. 6Newberry VolcanoNewberry VolcanoBig Obsidian Flow Trail, Newberry National Volcanic Monument Most lava walks are on dark basalt. This one climbs onto a flow of black volcanic glass and pale pumice, glinting underfoot, inside the Newberry caldera in central Oregon. At about 1,300 years old it is the youngest lava flow in the…0
  7. 7Sunset CraterSunset CraterLava Flow Trail, Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument Here you walk at the foot of the cone rather than up it. The one-mile Lava Flow Trail loops across the Bonito Lava Flow at the base of Sunset Crater, among jagged lava, cinders and a scatter of smaller volcanic features, with the cone…0
  8. 8Rangitoto IslandRangitoto IslandRangitoto Summit Track A public ferry from Auckland puts you on the city's youngest and biggest volcano, which rose from the sea about 600 years ago. The summit track is 7 kilometers return and about two hours, a steady 250-meter climb across raw lava fields to a 60-meter-deep crater now forested…0
  9. 9Mount VesuviusMount VesuviusGran Cono Trail (Path 5), Vesuvius National Park The volcano that buried Pompeii lets you walk to its rim on a 4-kilometer return path over volcanic ash and lapilli, about two and a half hours in all, and look into a crater that now measures up to 580 meters across. On a clear day the Bay of…0
  10. 10Mount EtnaMount EtnaSilvestri Craters, near Rifugio Sapienza Etna keeps its summit craters for guided groups, but you can drive to about 1,900 meters on the south side and walk the rims of the Silvestri Craters on your own. These extinct cones formed in an 1892 eruption, and from their edges you look down into the…0