Haleakalā National Park (Wilderness Tent Permit)

Great hike, sites were great but hard to identify site numbers.

Great location. We were able to end our day hiking down, viewing a beautiful sunset, then hiking with appropriate gear (head lamps) down to our spot!

Haleakala has a major problem with the reservation system. Now that you don't have to stop at the visitor center to "sign in" and view the video to camp, people make reservations and simply don't show up. They only lose $8 but the rest of us lose the priceless opportunity to tent camp in the crater. For instance, the night I stayed there, the system said all campsites were taken -- I had gotten the last one -- but actually only one other was occupied and the remaining 3 were empty. The young couple at the other campsite said they experienced the same problem at another park campsite -- online everything is taken, but when they arrived, there were many vacant sites. Please figure out a way to open up tent camping to more of us, rather than have the tent sites reserved, but sitting empty! (Always glorious to hike and camp in the crater, just to let newbies know -- that is if you have any chance of getting a reservation.)

Denied re-entry.

Beautiful setting of the campground, far from the main tourism. Easy, but longer hike to the Campground.

We did an overnight hike to Paliku campground. This was a 10 mi hike each way. The hike starts at the top of the summit and winds down into a crater and then flat across to the campground. On the way back we had to hike back up the mountain to the summit. My boyfriend and I live in Vancouver, Canada, are experienced hikers and in great shape. This was one of the HARDEST hikes either of us have done. 1) for the distance 2) the elevation and 3) having to hike up at the end of the hike. It monsooned the whole time at the campground. I'm surprised our tent stayed together. The campground was clean and peaceful though. The trails were well maintained.

Beautiful landscape with well maintained trails. Rangers offered great tips for our over night at the Holua campsite. And can’t beat sunrise from inside the crater. Can’t recommend enough!

Haleakala National Park is awesome. Paliku and Holua are great campsites.

Excellent backcountry tent sites. Holua1 is obvious however take time to locate the cleared spots for 2,3, & 4. Out house is just that and not maintained. The sea birds are nocturnal and were on spring break too. We brought a tarp as well as tents to get some extra sun & wind protection. Uber and lyft are not allowed past the entrance. We got dropped off and used the supply trail to access Halemau'u Trail. It was just about 6.2 mi from the entrance to Holua1 via this route.

Great campsite. Slept good despite the heavy rains.
I wish the campsites numbers were better indicated. If each campsite had its own sign, it would take away potential confusion among the campers.