Lava Lands Visitor Center

Lovely park and a fully paved loop! The peek of the trail has a great view of not only the lava lands but also the surrounding mountains. Would definitely recommend to anyone visiting Bend!

Really cool park. But unfortunately couldn't do the drive up to the mouth of the volcano. When we got there we asked the visitor center staff if the gate closed soon because we wanted to know if we needed to do it first, they said no so we did the walk first, but when we went to drive up the gate was shut. Still did the longer drive up to the obsidian rocks and lakes higher up, long drive but was pretty cool.

Beautiful area and the Rangers are all so nice and knowledgeable about the area. There are lots of walking paths and educational opportunities. The visitors center had a nice gift store along with great exhibits of the area. We took the shuttle to the top of the Lava Butte, it was hot that day so it definitely was better than walking.