This route links a set of remote, backcountry trails into a 50 km crossing of Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park. From the Footprints Trailhead at the park's western boundary at 3000 ft, you make a long descent to the ocean, then cross grasslands and lava fields to arrive at the park's easternmost trailhead at Pu'u Loa on Chain of Craters Road. The route is wild, and windswept, and can get very hot, and you'll encounter very few people along the way.

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This is the portion of the North Country Trail that falls within the Sheyenne National Grasslands in North Dakota (read more about the Grasslands here: https://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/dpg/recarea/?recid=79470). The difficulty of the trails lies in the distance and the sandiness of portions of the trail.