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The first couple hundred feet of the Lava Tube Trail is actually on rough road that is open to motor vehicles

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04486-lava-tube.jpg Patience pays off: after a few hundred feet, I arrive at a camping pull-out and a tiny sign indicating "Lava Tube TrailThumbnailsI walk back down the hill from the Aiken Mine equipment to examine a rock wall on the flatsPatience pays off: after a few hundred feet, I arrive at a camping pull-out and a tiny sign indicating "Lava Tube TrailThumbnailsI walk back down the hill from the Aiken Mine equipment to examine a rock wall on the flatsPatience pays off: after a few hundred feet, I arrive at a camping pull-out and a tiny sign indicating "Lava Tube TrailThumbnailsI walk back down the hill from the Aiken Mine equipment to examine a rock wall on the flatsPatience pays off: after a few hundred feet, I arrive at a camping pull-out and a tiny sign indicating "Lava Tube TrailThumbnailsI walk back down the hill from the Aiken Mine equipment to examine a rock wall on the flatsPatience pays off: after a few hundred feet, I arrive at a camping pull-out and a tiny sign indicating "Lava Tube TrailThumbnailsI walk back down the hill from the Aiken Mine equipment to examine a rock wall on the flats

Of course, not many vehicles would drive this rough, cinder-rock-ridden road. If I knew beforehand that the Lava Tube was on this side of the hill, I would have come down this road from Aiken Mine instead of coasting down the longer, smoother road.