You come to the top of Haleakala not only to see the sunrise, but also to see a huge crater right?! Well, it may not be what you pictured. It's not a smooth, bowl-like crater like we picture the moon to have. At one point the whole top did blow off, but after years and years of inactivity a valley eroded, kind of splitting the crater into two halves. The last few eruptions (most recent was 1790) were much smaller and you can see some mini-craters inside.
The craziest thing about Haleakala: you go up 10,000 feet in just 38 miles- one of the quickest, steepest inclines, but they did a great job of setting up the road so it feels pretty gradual.
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