When it comes to beautiful parklands, Hawaii has no shortage. Between Hawaii Island, Maui, Molokai, Oahu and Kauai you’ll find seven national parks, 55 state parks and countless city, county and regional beach parks. Over the last few weeks, we’ve polled our HAWAII Magazine Facebook reader ohana, asking them, “What’s your favorite Hawaii park?” Several […]
As Earth’s most isolated inhabited archipelago, Hawaii is blessed with striking natural beauty—eerie volcanic landscapes, lush rainforests and valleys and luxuriously sandy beaches. Fortunately for residents and visitors, much of this scenic wonder is found on lands open to free public access. This Sat. Sept. 27, all Hawaii national parks will participate in National Public
HAWAII Magazine’s 2014 “Best of Hawaii” issue is arriving in subscriber mailboxes and is on-sale nationwide now! The perennially popular issue features our annual collection of stuff that makes our Islands great. Left anywhere in your house or office, it’s also a fantastic conversation starter. The September/October “Best of” issue is chock full of staff-curated
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Frequent island-hopping National Park visitors may want to add a new card to their wallets. The National Park Service’s Hawaii Tri-Park Pass covers admission to the Islands’ three national parks that charge fees—Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and Puuhonua O Honaunau National Historical Park on Hawaii Island, and Maui’s Haleakala National Park—for one year from the
Maybe you just returned from Oahu and want to relive some of the hiking trails and parks you visited. Or perhaps you’re on Oahu right now and want to see just how muddy your shoes might get on a hike to Manoa Falls. Check out Google Street View Trekker’s newest addition to its collection of
Hello. My name is Derek and I am a zipline addict. I’ve been hooked since the first time I was strapped, nervous as all get out, into a trolley harness and sent speeding down a course of steel cables strung high across West Maui Mountain gulches five years ago. A couple of years after that,
Hanalei Bay and Haena State Park on Kauai. Wailea and Makena Beach on Maui. Anaehoomalu Bay on the Big Island. Ko Olina Resort on Oahu. These are the universally-agreed-upon sweet spots that DIDN’T make the final five cut of our readers’ Favorite Hawaii Places to Watch a Sunset list for 2014. Earlier this month, we
Interisland air carrier go! Airlines announced yesterday that it will shut down passenger service on April 1. The airline will continue operating its current flight schedule through March 31. If you have confirmed reservations for go! flights on April 1, 2014 or beyond, the airline said in a statement that it will be contacting all
Last summer and fall, we asked our reader ohana to share their picks of the best of everything Hawaii for our 2014 HAWAII Magazine Readers’ Choice Awards. Thousands of our Mainland U.S., Hawaii and international readers responded, packing their Readers’ Choice ballots with hundreds of selections for everything from their best Hawaii hotels and resorts,
A trek through a crater once filled with molten lava. A hike to the summit of one of Hawaii’s most iconic natural landmarks. A couple of lush forests hikes ending at mountain-stream-fed waterfalls. And a multi-day hike along an otherwise virtually unreachable Kauai coastline. We’ve counted the hundreds of answers submitted by HAWAII Magazine’s Facebook
Last summer and fall, we asked our reader ohana to share their picks of the best of everything the Hawaiian Islands have to offer for our 2014 HAWAII Magazine Readers’ Choice Awards. Thousands of our Mainland U.S., Hawaii and international readers responded, packing their Readers’ Choice ballots with hundreds of selections for everything from their
Most of us will never get a chance to visit the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, a massive, closed-to-the-public marine and wildlife conservation area that encompasses much of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands beyond Kauai. Thanks to Google Street View’s Trekker site, however, you can now virtually stroll among the thousands of seabirds nesting on Tern Island or
