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National Parks in Hawaii.

By Nicholas Major · Last updated

Hawaii has Haleakalā National Park (Maui) and Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park (the Big Island) as its two flagship NPS units, plus Kalaupapa National Historical Park (Molokaʻi), Pearl Harbor National Memorial, Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau, Kaloko-Honokōhau, and Puʻukoholā Heiau. The state's major airports are Honolulu (HNL), Kahului (OGG) for Maui, and Kona/Hilo (KOA/ITO) for the Big Island. Hawaiʻi Volcanoes is the country's most actively erupting National Park; eruption status and air-quality conditions vary and can close roads or trails on short notice; check the NPS park status page before planning a visit. Haleakalā's sunrise summit visit requires a timed-entry reservation in season; check the official NPS Haleakalā page for the current reservation window. Both National Parks operate year-round; visiting weather is most reliable May through October. Inter-island travel between Maui and the Big Island for visitors hitting both Haleakalā and Hawaiʻi Volcanoes is a 45-minute flight; there is no scheduled passenger ferry service between the major islands.

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Hawaii National Parks map: labeled satellite map, showing 2 locations: Haleakalā, Hawaiʻi Volcanoes
Hawaii's 2 designated National Parks. Dots mark general locations, not entrances. This map does not show every NPS source record in the directory below. Map: National Sites Guide, CC BY 4.0.

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NPS source records in Hawaii.

Hawaii has 9 records in our combined NPS metadata and visitor-statistics registry: 3 National Historical Parks · 2 National Parks · 2 National Historic Sites · 1 National Historic Trail · 1 National Memorial. This is a source-record count, not the Park Service's official system-unit census. Combined 5-year-average annual visits: 3,133,487 (multi-state units count their full visits in every state they touch, see methodology). The most-visited record is Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park at about 1.56M annual visits.

Map of the broader NPS source-record directory
Every National Park Service site in Hawaii, mapped. Each glowing marker is one site, placed at its real coordinates and colored by type. Select a marker for its yearly visits and a link, or use the filters to show or hide a group.
National Park Service sites in Hawaii, mapped Interactive map of Hawaii showing the location of 9 National Park Service sites, colored by type: national parks, monuments and memorials, historic sites, recreation areas and seashores, rivers, trails and parkways, and other sites. It includes the National Parks Haleakalā National Park and Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park. Each site is also listed with its yearly visits in the table below the map. 2

Marker positions are each unit's official NPS coordinates. State outline: U.S. Census cartographic boundary (public domain). Independent site, not affiliated with the National Park Service.

UnitDesignation5-yr avg visitsBusiest month
Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park National ParkHAVO 1,555,090 December
Haleakalā National Park National ParkHALE 863,655 July
Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park National Historical ParkPUHO 346,017 December
Kaloko-Honokōhau National Historical Park National Historical ParkKAHO 311,580 March
Kalaupapa National Historical Park National Historical ParkKALA 31,423 July
Puʻukoholā Heiau National Historic Site National Historic SitePUHE 25,722 March
Ala Kahakai National Historic Trail National Historic TrailALKA — —
Honouliuli National Historic Site National Historic SiteHONO — —
Pearl Harbor National Memorial National MemorialVALR — —

Methodology

Rows come from our combined NPS metadata and Visitor Use Statistics registry, not the Park Service's official census of 433 managed system units. Per-record visit counts come from the official NPS Visitor Use Statistics Data Package, 2025; the "5-year average visits" column is the mean of 2021-2025 Recreation Visits. Multi-state records are listed under every state they touch, and their full visit total appears in each state. Official National Park counts use the central 63-park classification rather than the source designation label alone. Independent site, not affiliated with the National Park Service.

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Last updated · 2026-09-10