Kalaupapa remains closed after COVID-19 stopped all tourist visits in 2020. Prior to the shutdown, tourists were allowed, most entered using the famous donkey rides from the top side. Special ...

But the leisurely pace is just fine, because you want to take it slow descending the 1,700 feet into Hawaii's past on the Kalaupapa Peninsula. Molokai's remote north shore was where Hawaiians with ...

KALAUPAPA, MOLOKAI (HAWAIINEWSNOW) - Landowner R.W. Meyer is evicting Kalaupapa Rare Adventures from land it owns in Molokai, effectively ending the company's escorted mule ride and hiking ...

Kalaupapa, Molokai -- At the edge of what are said to be the highest sea cliffs in the world, a sturdy metal gate marks the start of a trail that switchbacks steeply down the cliff-face to the beach.

Kalaupapa, for more than a century a place of exile for people with Hansen's disease (as leprosy is called today), is a potent symbol of Molokai in general: physically beautiful, relatively ...

There are two ways to reach Molokai’s isolated settlement of Kalaupapa. You can ride a mule or walk along the 3.2-mile trail that descends the 1,700-foot cliff along 26 switchbacks, or you can fly.

Details on the history of the colony—known as Kalaupapa—for leprosy patients are murky: Fewer than 1,000 of the tombstones that span across the village’s various cemeteries are marked ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - National Park Service rangers have been trained to be on the lookout for invasive pests that could threaten the landscape in the remote area of Kalaupapa. The coconut ...

Apr. 18—John Arruda was sent to the isolated Kalaupapa Peninsula in 1945 following his Hansen's disease diagnosis and Friday celebrated his 100th birthday in the Kalaupapa Settlement ...