Celebrate the National Park Service’s 100th anniversary and the centennial of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park during National Park Week, April 16-24. Entrance fees will be waived nine days and a “National Park Rx Day” will be April 24.
For Junior Ranger Day on Saturday, keiki age 17 and younger are invited to join park rangers in Kahuku for a day of discovery from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Participants will hike the lower Palm Trail and learn to make traditional string figures called hei. Call 985-6019 to register, limited to 25 participants.
On April 20, kupuna hula group Haunani’s Aloha Expressions will perform for free 6:30 to 8 p.m. in the Kilauea Visitor Center Auditorium.
From 10 a.m. to noon April 24, the park will host a “National Park Rx Day,” a community health initiative to “prescribe” time in parks to promote wellness. Park rangers and Craig Kadooka will lead an easy one-mile roundtrip hike of upper Iliahi Trail. Meet at 10 a.m. on the Kilauea Visitor Center lanai. The first 200 walkers will receive a reusable water bottle and fresh fruit. Hawaiian practitioners Edna and Sam Baldado will demonstrate the heath benefits of kalo, and Kaohu Monfort will share how Hawaiians use plants to heal and cure.