The Molokai Light in Kalaupapa is the tallest lighthouse in Hawaii (Kawano, Lynn | None) Kalaupapa remains closed after COVID-19 stopped all tourist visits in 2020.

Landmark light: The tallest of Hawaii's lighthouses may also be its loneliest: The 138-foot, century-old Kalaupapa Lighthouse looms over the isolated peninsula on Molokai's north shore that was ...

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.

Forty-one elderly leprosy patients still live on the isolated peninsula at the bottom of the trail. They've been free to leave since 1970, but have chosen to live out their lives in Kalaupapa. It ...

KALAUPAPA, Hawaii — Kalaupapa beckoned to Kyong Son Toyofuku. She had long prayed to visit the hard-to-reach Hawaiian peninsula, trapped by its deep-green, sheer sea cliffs and rugged, black ...

Of the 8,000 Hawaii residents diagnosed with leprosy who were banished to Kalaupapa from 1866 to 1969, there are nine people remaining today who have the right to live at the isolated Molokai ...

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.

Richard Marks, who educated tourists on the Hawaiian island of Molokai about Hansen's disease and the history of the Kalaupapa leprosy settlement and helped the state end its forced quarantine of ...

Apr. 6—A bill appropriating funds for a memorial to the 8, 000 Hawaii residents who were exiled to Kalaupapa on Molokai from 1866 to 1969 after being diagnosed with leprosy is advancing through ...

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.