Maunakea on Hawaiʻi Island is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The majestic mountain earned the ...

It sounds weird, but snow in Hawaii isn't unusual at all. That's because the islands have mountains. It even occasionally happens on a Maui shield volcano.

Yet, if you measure a mountain from its base to its peak, then the 33,500-foot (10,211-meter) Mauna Kea, an inactive shield volcano on the island of Hawaii, would instead come out on top.

It is not the tallest volcano in Hawaii – that title goes to Mauna Kea – but it is the largest and makes up about half of the island’s land mass. It is about 320km south of Hawaii’s most ...

"Enough is enough," Jason Momoa captioned an Instagram post, protesting the construction of a telescope on the Mauna Kea volcano Jason Momoa is continuing to protest the construction of a ...

In fact, the dormant volcano is one of the best places for ... that include round-trip transportation from your hotel. Mauna Kea Summit Adventures and Hawaii Forest and Trail are two reputable ...

Mauna Kea, a volcano on the Big Island with sub-Arctic climate, sometimes sees blizzards, ice, and snow, mainly in the winter. Its fellow peak Mauna Loa also sees similar cold conditions.

Mauna Kea—a volcano and the tallest geographic feature in the state—stands at 13,803 feet, which is far higher than the peaks of many ski resorts throughout the lower 48. But that volcano isn ...

Shield volcanoes do not have such violent eruptions. These volcanoes tend to have gentle slopes and their runnier lava spreads and hardens over a wider area. Mauna Loa in Hawaii is an example of a ...

Haleakala, a huge shield volcano on Maui. Snow is actually a fact of life each year over the islands' peaks. Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa, slumbering volcanoes on the Big Island, are the highest points ...