The road to the summit of Mauna Kea has reopened to the public after five months of closure due to protests and demonstrations related to the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT).

Mauna Kea Summit Adventures and Hawaii Forest and Trail are two reputable companies for tours of Mauna Kea. Tours typically last around eight hours and include round-trip transportation, dinner ...

Eight businesses have permits to take tours up the access road to Mauna Kea. Doug Arnott’s is one of them. He estimates he's lost $10,000 in income in the last five days.

Mauna Kea, Hawaii's highest peak, typically get snow every year, but thundersnow is much less common. Photo Credit: Kirk Lee Aeder/Hawaii Tourism Authority While it may seem counterintuitive to ...

ATOP MAUNA KEA, Hawaii – If you count from sea level, we were 13,796 feet up, almost as high as Mount Rainier. Plenty high enough. But if you count from the ocean floor? My Big Island tour group ...

MAUNA KEA, Hawaii — The ranger had clearly been imparting the same advice to tourists all day. “Use four-wheel drive, and low gears on the way down,” he said sternly through the open window ...

A new report says more Native Hawaiians should be included in the management of observatories on Mauna Kea. Above, a tourist walks the summit near telescopes. Greg Chun, executive director of the ...

The first snow of the season covered Hawaii’s Mauna Kea Summit on Monday, October 28, footage shows. “Winter is here,” the Maunakea Visitor Information Station said on Sunday, October 27 ...