Friends of Haleakalā National Park volunteers are the heart of our organization. Since 1996, FHNP has hosted thousands of volunteers for service trips in the Park.
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Monthly One-Day Service Trips
The Friends of Haleakala National Park is offering one-day service activity at the park’s plant nursery in the Haleakala summit district on the first Tuesday of each month.
Volunteers will help the park horticulturist with jobs involving caring for the rare, endemic plants being propagated, such as transplanting, weeding, cleaning and preparing seeds for storage or planting, and some pot washing. The park recycles pots which have to be carefully cleaned to prevent the spread of plant diseases. There may sometimes be some out planting, but most of the service work is done inside, and participants can drive up to the location of the work.
Multi-Day Overnight Service Trips
Back Country trips will be long, physically challenging days requiring hiking and climbing at high altitudes both on and off trail. Your reward is an opportunity to enjoy your Park in areas you may have never visited and leaving it better off than before your service.
The Kīpahulu cabin and tent site is accessible by car. While easier to get to, these trips also involve hard work, often in hot and wet conditions. For overnight tent camping trips in Haleakalā National Park you must carry in your own sleeping bag, clothing, your food for breakfast and lunch, and your share of the dinner groceries. Back Country (Hōlua, Kapalaoa, Palikū) trip participants must be 18 years of age or older.