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Best volcano parks to visit worldwide

A volcano park can mean a night climb to a crater rim, a walk across a lava field that is a few years old, or a bath in a hot river. Indonesia sells the first: Bromo at sunrise, the two-day Rinjani trek, jeep tours on the flank of Merapi. The Canaries and Reunion offer high roads, cable cars and marked trails across recent flows. Costa Rica’s Arenal, Poas, Irazu and Rincon de la Vieja are half-day visits with hot springs attached, and Yellowstone and Hawaii Volcanoes are road parks where the geysers and the lava lake come to the visitor.

Mount Merapi National Park

Indonesia

Merapi is the active volcano above Yogyakarta in central Java, and the way most people visit it is the jeep tour:…

71 tickets & tours

Mount Rinjani National Park

Indonesia

Mount Rinjani is the volcano that fills the north of Lombok, Indonesia's second highest peak, and the park exists…

54 tickets & tours

Teide National Park

Canary Islands, Spain

Teide is the volcano at the centre of Tenerife and the most visited national park in Spain, and it is reached from…

48 tickets & tours

Arenal Volcano National Park

Costa Rica

Arenal is the volcano above La Fortuna, three hours from San José, and the town has become Costa Rica's adventure…

35 tickets & tours

Yellowstone National Park

Wyoming, United States

Yellowstone occupies the north-western corner of Wyoming, overlapping into Montana and Idaho, and it is a very large…

27 tickets & tours

Cotopaxi National Park

Ecuador

Cotopaxi is the perfect snow cone south of Quito, two hours from the capital, and it is Ecuador's most visited…

26 tickets & tours

Réunion National Park

France

The national park covers the mountainous interior of Réunion, the French island in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar,…

15 tickets & tours

Timanfaya National Park

Canary Islands, Spain

Timanfaya is the lava field of south-western Lanzarote, half an hour from the island's resorts, and it is a park…

13 tickets & tours

Hawaii Volcanoes National Park

Hawaii, United States

Hawaii Volcanoes is the park of Kīlauea and Mauna Loa on the south-east of the Big Island, forty-five minutes from Hilo…

10 tickets & tours

Fjallabak Nature Reserve

Iceland

Fjallabak is a reserve in the uninhabited southern highlands of Iceland, a wilderness of multicoloured rhyolite…

8 tickets & tours

Pacaya Volcano National Park

Guatemala

Pacaya is the active volcano an hour and a half from Antigua and an hour from Guatemala City, and the half-day hike up…

7 tickets & tours

Chyulu Hills National Park

Kenya

The Chyulu Hills are the long green volcanic range that runs between Amboseli and Tsavo West in southern Kenya, and…

6 tickets & tours

Fogo Natural Park

Cape Verde

Fogo is the volcano island of Cape Verde, reached by a half-hour flight from Praia on Santiago to the airstrip at São…

6 tickets & tours

Vesuvius National Park

Campania, Italy

Vesuvius stands nine kilometres east of Naples, and the visit that nearly everyone makes is the walk to the rim of the…

6 tickets & tours

Yangmingshan National Park

Taiwan

Yangmingshan is the volcanic massif on the northern edge of Taipei, so close that city buses climb into it from the…

6 tickets & tours

Villarrica National Park

Chile

Villarrica National Park rises directly behind Pucón, the adventure capital of Chile's Lake District, about nine…

5 tickets & tours

Access changes with the volcano’s mood. Craters close when gas levels rise, summit permits are rationed, as on Teide, and an eruption can shut a park for months or make it the most visited place in the country. Check the alert level before you pay for anything that cannot be cancelled. Every page notes the height you climb, whether a guide is compulsory, the clothing the summit needs at dawn and the months when cloud is least likely to hide what you came to see.