『Oahu’s Most Famous Hike Can Get You Arrested, The $2 Maui Treat Most Visitors Miss, and What’s the Best Luau on Kauai?』のカバーアート

Oahu’s Most Famous Hike Can Get You Arrested, The $2 Maui Treat Most Visitors Miss, and What’s the Best Luau on Kauai?

Oahu’s Most Famous Hike Can Get You Arrested, The $2 Maui Treat Most Visitors Miss, and What’s the Best Luau on Kauai?

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 Seven Hawaii tips this week, from a famous Oahu hike you can’t do to a hundred-year-old Maui treat most people drive right past.OAHU The most famous hike on Oahu is one you’re not allowed to do If you’re planning an Oahu hike off a photo you saw online, make sure the trail is still open. The Stairway to Heaven, also called the Haiku Stairs, still shows up in old blogs and travel videos as a bucket-list climb. It’s been closed to the public since 1987. The city started tearing it down in 2024, and what’s left is still tied up in court. Police have cited and arrested people at the bottom for trying to sneak up. So skip it. If you’re up for a hard climb, put the Koko Head Stairs on your list instead. They’re on the southeast tip of Oahu, about 25 minutes from Waikiki, legal and free: 1,048 old railroad ties straight up the side of a crater, roughly 1,000 feet of climbing. There’s no shade, so start close to sunrise and bring extra water. Park at Koko Head District Park. At the top, you’re on the rim of an old volcano with Hanauma Bay below you, Diamond Head in the distance, and the whole south shore lit up in morning light.KAUAI Kauai’s alarm clock goes off at 4 AM, and you can’t hit snooze If you’re staying on Kauai, pack earplugs. You might want them around 4 in the morning. Kauai has wild chickens everywhere: parking lots, beaches, the lawn outside your hotel. Unlike Oahu, Maui, and the Big Island, Kauai has no mongoose population going after their eggs, so the birds are all over the place. And the roosters don’t wait for sunrise. Plenty start crowing at 3 or 4 AM, right outside your window. Put foam earplugs in your carry-on, or load a white noise app before you leave home. When you check in, ask for an upper-floor room or one away from the grass and the parking lot, where the birds hang out. Do that and the rooster becomes part of the soundtrack instead of your alarm clock. You’ve got a much better shot at waking up rested, coffee in hand on the lanai, while a very proud bird struts across the lawn like he owns the place.MAUI The rock you shouldn’t stand on at Maui’s 100-foot blowhole If you’re driving the north coast of West Maui, the Nakalele Blowhole is worth the stop, as long as you watch it from the right spot. Waves push into a lava tube under the rock and blast water out of a hole about the size of a tire, sometimes as high as 100 feet when the surf is up. People get in trouble by walking too close. In 2011, a visitor standing near the hole was knocked down by a wave and pulled in, and he was never found. The Maui Fire Department’s rule: if the rock is wet, waves are reaching it, so don’t stand there. Dry rock isn’t a guarantee either, because a big set can come out of nowhere. Stay well back from the hole and the water’s edge, watch from higher ground, and never turn your back on the ocean. The trail down from the pullout near mile marker 38 is steep and loose, so wear real shoes, not flip-flops. Do it right and you’re standing in the sun, feeling the boom through your feet, sometimes with a rainbow hanging in the spray.BIG ISLAND The Big Island lava tube with no lights, no fee, and no line If you’re staying in Hilo, there’s a better way to walk through a lava tube than the one everybody else does. Most visitors only see Nahuku, also called Thurston Lava Tube, in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. It’s paved and lit, and at midday you’re shuffling through in a line of people. Kaumana Caves is the wild version, about 15 minutes from downtown Hilo on Kaumana Drive, just past mile marker 4. It’s a free county park, open year round. You walk down steep stairs into a spot where the roof caved in, and two big tubes open up in front of you, one on each side. This lava came down from Mauna Loa in 1881 and stopped just short of Hilo. There are no lights and the floor is rough, so bring a flashlight or headlamp for each person, plus a spare, and wear closed-toe shoes. Stay near the entrance and follow the posted signs, because the tube runs under private land farther in. Then switch your light off for a few seconds. Cool air, dripping rock, and nobody else’s voice.ALL ISLANDS Your $90 interisland flight just cost $160 If you’re splitting your trip between two islands, add the bag fees before you call that interisland flight cheap. In April 2026, Southwest doubled its interisland bag fees for visitors. Now Southwest and Hawaiian both charge about $30 for your first checked bag and $40 for the second, each way. If you each check two bags, that’s $70 a person, and a $90 ticket becomes a $160 flight. For a couple, that’s $140 for a hop that’s over in less than an hour. Price the flight with your bags included, not just the fare. Then get the two of you down to one shared checked bag, keep it under 50 pounds to avoid an overweight charge, and carry the rest on. Leave bulky beach gear at home and rent it on the island if you need it. Going from ...
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