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Hikes in Hawaiʻi

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Hawaiʻi Island

• Kīlauea Iki Trail (Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park)Hawaiʻi Island · The park's signature day hike: a roughly 3.3-mile loop (allow 2 to 3 hours) that drops about 400 feet through rainforest and crosses the...
• Papakōlea Green Sand Beach hikeHawaiʻi Island · A rare olivine green-sand beach near Ka Lae (South Point). The walk is about 4.5 miles round trip from the end of South Point Road, 3 to 4...
• Pololū Valley TrailHawaiʻi Island · A short but steep trail at the end of Highway 270 in North Kohala, dropping about 400 feet to a boulder-and-black-sand beach. It was closed...

Kauaʻi

• Hanakāpīʻai Falls hike (Nāpali Coast)Kauaʻi · The best day hike on Kauaʻi's Nāpali Coast and open again since Oct. 15, 2026 after Hurricane Lowell. It's 4 miles round trip to...
• Kōkeʻe trails (Awaʻawapuhi, Pihea): closed for nowKauaʻi · Kōkeʻe State Park's famous ridge and cliff trails, including Awaʻawapuhi (about 6 miles round trip down to a Nāpali viewpoint) and...
• Kuilau Ridge Trail (Keāhua Arboretum)Kauaʻi · A gentle ridge walk through the Līhuʻe-Kōloa Forest Reserve inland of Wailua, about 4 miles round trip with views of Mount Waiʻaleʻale...
• Māhāʻulepū Heritage Trail (Poʻipū)Kauaʻi · An easy coastal walk on Kauaʻi's South Shore from Shipwreck Beach in Poʻipū east toward Māhāʻulepū, across sea cliffs, dunes and limestone...
• Sleeping Giant (Nounou) TrailKauaʻi · Kauaʻi's popular East Side hike up Nounou mountain above Kapaʻa. It's about 3.5 miles round trip with roughly 1,000 feet of gain. All three...

Maui

• Hoapili Trail (King's Highway), La Perouse BayMaui · An ancient Hawaiian coastal path, rebuilt in 1824, across the jagged lava fields of South Maui's last lava flow. Most people go out and...
• Kapalua Coastal TrailMaui · An easy West Maui shoreline walk between Kapalua Bay and D.T. Fleming Beach, 1.76 miles one way (about 3.5 miles out and back), partly...
• Pīpīwai Trail, Hāna (bamboo forest and Waimoku Falls)Maui · Maui's most famous hike, in the Kīpahulu District of Haleakalā National Park past Hāna. It's 4 miles round trip with about 800 feet of...
• Sliding Sands (Keoneheʻeheʻe) Trail, HaleakalāMaui · The trail into Haleakalā crater, starting at the summit visitor center parking lot at about 10,000 feet. It drops almost 2,500 feet across...
• Waiheʻe Ridge TrailMaui · A steady ridge climb in the West Maui Mountains above Waiheʻe, about 5 miles round trip with roughly 1,500 feet of gain to a 2,563-foot...

Molokaʻi

• Hālawa Valley guided hike to Moʻoula Falls (Molokaʻi)Molokaʻi · Hālawa Valley at Molokaʻi's east end is one of the oldest settled valleys in Hawaiʻi. The hike to 250-foot Moʻoula (Moaʻula) Falls crosses...

Oʻahu

• Kaʻena Point TrailOʻahu · A flat coastal walk, 2.5 miles each way, to Oʻahu's wild western tip, a protected Natural Area Reserve with nesting seabirds. Rated...
• Koko Crater Stairs (Koko Head)Oʻahu · Oʻahu's famous stair workout: 1,048 old railway ties straight up Koko Crater, about 1,200 feet of climbing in roughly 1.6 miles round trip...
• Lanikai Pillbox Trail (Kaʻiwa Ridge)Oʻahu · A short but steep 1-mile round-trip ridge hike in Kailua to old military pillboxes with famous views over Lanikai and the Mokulua islands...
• Makapuʻu Point Lighthouse TrailOʻahu · A 2-mile round-trip trail (about 500 feet of climbing) on Oʻahu's southeast tip with views of the lighthouse and the windward coast. Rated...
• Mānoa Falls TrailOʻahu · One of Oʻahu's easiest hikes: 1.6 miles round trip (about an hour) through Mānoa Valley rainforest to a roughly 150-foot waterfall, near...