Originally published March 19, 2008 at 12:00 AM | Page modified March 19, 2008 at 6:46 PM

Ban on Haleakala volcano bike tours is extended by Hawaii park

The ban on Haleakala volcano bike tours in Maui is extended by national park officials in Hawaii.

HONOLULU — Officials at Haleakala National Park on Maui have decided to extend a suspension of downhill bike tours on the volcano.

A panel has found the tours pose an unacceptably high risk.

Park Superintendent Marilyn Parris says the park will is looking into the possibility of allowing less dangerous interpretive bike tours than the ones that drop bikers off at the crater at sunrise and let them speed 30 miles down the two-lane road.

Five bicycle tour companies are being allowed to conduct some activities. Tours now start outside the park at the 6,500-foot level and go for 20 miles.

The park banned the downhill run Oct. 10 following a fatality on Sept. 26.

Before the ban inside the park, more than 100,000 bikers a year made the tours.

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