Lava tube is a must do for travellers to Big Island. Its an interesting experience and quite unique. The lava tube is located inside the Volcano National Park. The entrance fee for the park is $30 and it gives you 7 days access to the park. Once inside the park ,you dont need to pay for parking or entrance to any attractions, including the lava tube There are beautiful plants along the walk to the tube. Take your time to walk inside the tube as it is all one way for traffic control. This is one of the 2 most popular attractions in the park. Visitors come to the park to see this The drive to the park and the drive inside the park is very easy. Definitely a must do

Wonderful experience. Walking through a lava tube. It is lighted( I think 8am.to 8 pm) and relatively easy to walk through..it can be wet with puddles of water and water dripping but nothing too inconvenient. Cannot stress enough...get there early..make this the first stop of the day, and be there when it opens. The parking lot gets full and then you have to drive over to an overflow parking lot and hike down from there. Just be there early and enjoy this wonderful attraction in Volcano National Park.

Our family loved visiting the Nahuku Thurston Lava Tube in Hawaii Volvanoes National Park. From the parking lot there is a short paved trail to the lava tube. Once inside you can exit out the back and return outside on a paved trail or go back through the lava tube. The parking lot is very busy unless you go early. I went one day at 6:30 am and there were no cars at all. However they don’t light the cave until 8 am. I didn’t have a flashlight so I didn’t go very far. I didn’t expect a monster to get me but I didn’t want to take the chance.