Who doesn’t love exploring lava tubes! This is a great place for kids and adults!

There are four main lava tube entrances along this trail. The first lava tube has the most opportunity for exploring. The other three don’t go in that much, and if they do, we wouldn’t know because we didn’t want to crawl through the dust…at least on this trip.

From the parking area you will be hiking on lava rock and dirt the entire way.  The first lava tube is about 0.40 mile from the parking and it is on your right side.

This trail is beautiful and you will have many chances to see cactus, desert flowers, and even some small birds and other wildlife.  There are some trail signs with information on them too along the way.

The first lava tube has two entrances and they are right next to each other and connect down below.  The first one has a large cool chamber and it drops a good ways.  It isn’t a serious climbing experience, but there are some areas where you need to pay attention and use both hands to get down.  These are fun areas for kids to explore!  Just bring a flashlight!

This lava tube is the biggest and best one!  The large chamber narrows down to a small tunnel at the end.  We didn’t go inside the tunnel, but other people were already in there crawling around.

The second lava tube is about 0.57 mile from the parking area.  This one only goes in a short ways and wasn’t worth our time exploring.  It’s still kind of neat to see.

Below is the third lava tube and it also had a very large entrance, but didn’t go in too far either.

Below is the fourth lava tube.  We didn’t check it out too much because it appeared to not go in too far.

The trail continues around in a giant loop, but we only wanted to see the main lava tubes, so we came back on the same trail.