Everything you need to know about permits and reservations for this popular Kauai hike. ScottHanft/Getty Images Kauai's Kalalau Trail is the epitome of a paradisiacal Hawaiian footpath. It stretches ...

WAIMEA, Kauai – On Friday, the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) Division of State parks announced the closure of the entire Kalalau Trial on Kauai, a 11-mile remote hiking trail that is ...

Writer’s Note: A few weeks ago, as the votes were being tallied for our readers’ poll of America’s best hiking trails, I was coincidentally trekking my way along the Na Pali Coast of Kauai along the ...

Nottingham hiked the trail recently and saw several people rescued: “One girl broke her ankle and had to be helicoptered out. They didn’t allow enough time and they hiked the last 2 miles in the dark.

During World War II, the steep, twisting old Hawaiian trail that wound upwards through dense forests to the Kalalau Lookout in Koke‘e was replaced by a dirt and gravel Army road that made the lookout ...

The Kalalau Trail certainly isn’t for the fainthearted. This 11-mile (one way) trail along the Na Pali coast of Kauai, Hawaii offers magical views of beaches, towering cliffs and lush valleys but can ...

Hundreds of visitors and up to 60 to 80 backpackers hike the trail every day, but many are unprepared for the heat, steep elevation changes, slippery mud and rocky terrain. Last year, 73 rescues were ...

The easiest is the closed road that links these lookouts. A two-lane strip of asphalt, currently closed to traffic, connects the park’s premier viewpoints of the Kalalau Valley, and in early morning ...

KOKEE STATE PARK, Kauai -- Looking out over a thousand shades of sloping green vegetation, a visitor here told her companion: "It all looks painted; nothing is real." "Where are the dinosaurs?" the ...