Wilderness Tent Sites
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- Right now
- OpenThe agency lists it open
- Sites
- 10All of them booked ahead
- Season
- Year-roundOpen year-round
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
There are two primitive wilderness tent areas which are accessible only by trail, Hōlua and Palikū. These sites are only reservable on recreation.gov. No first come-first serve sites are available.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets - year round
- Drinking water
- Yes
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 11
What you actually pay
Who keeps the booking fee
The agency’s own policy text says the reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee are “retained by the reservation service contractor”, and that a campground concessionaire will decline to refund them because “they did not receive these fees”. Recreation.gov is run under contract by Booz Allen Hamilton. What share of your booking fee the contractor keeps isn’t published in any federal dataset we can read, so we print no number for it. Our reporting on the contract →
How we know this receipt · 4
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Haleakalā National Park (Wilderness Tent Permit)Haleakala National Park · 0.0 mi
Haleakalā National Park (Cabin Permits)Haleakala National Park · 4.1 mi
Hosmer Grove CampgroundHaleakala National Park · 4.5 mi
Kipahulu CampgroundHaleakala National Park · 4.5 mi
Wilderness CabinsHaleakala National Park · 5.2 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Kula, HI
Typical weather
Typical October night 48°F, day 64°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical February night 43°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more
A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Augusts are colder than the August line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Wilderness Tent Sites is in Hawaii’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Jill Tokuda (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A+. See every public-lands vote →