Saddle Road
Saddle Road, Hawaii, is considered among the most spectacular roads in the world. This is 55-mile drive of a chance of a lifetime experience. Hawaiiās Route 200 goes through all four of her climates ā tropical forests, arid desert, lush grasslands and misty mountaintop fog. Between miles 19 and 23, youāll see a few places with lava flows and young vegetation and trees. But just after Saddlehouse Road, youāll see the ridges that show where a 1936 flow slowly came to a stop 2 miles away. Near the road you can see where lava thickened and left the telltale mounds of a slowing flow. From here, youāll continue through the volcanic aftermath of hundreds of thousands of years of lava activity as you head toward Belt Road, where youāll eventually descend into Kona or Waikoloa.