The Hawaii Volcanoes National Park is located just above the 28 mile marker (mm) on Highway 11. It is about 30 minutes from Hilo, up the mountain. It costs $10 a car for a 7-day pass for everything within it. Normally, visitors will start at the visitor’s center just inside the entrance and then travel in a counter-clockwise direction around Crater Rim Drive. This will take you past the Volcano house, the sulphur banks, the steam vents, Kilauea Military Camp, the Jaggar museum, Halemaumau crater, a bunch of rift zones, Devastation Trail, Thurston Lava tube, and some other craters. You could then backtrack to Chain of Craters Drive which heads down to the ocean, and the current lava flow. The lava flow is not always the easiest thing to see - especially when it moves to the middle of the old flow, or travels only underground, but you usually can see at least a steam plume from the hairpin turn, and sometimes you can even see a red glow from there. Traveling all the way to the ocean is not always worth it, because you may have to hike over old lava just to get close to new lava. You should always check at the Visitor's Center because conditions change daily.