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Permit/permission required: None.

Description: Across the parking lot, opposite the cabins, you’ll find an information sign about Kalopa and a self-service dispenser of brochures about the park. It’s well worth your time to read the information sign and well worth the small fee for a brochure. However, most of Kalopa’s trails are no longer worth hiking (or safe for hiking); see below.

The beginning of the nature trail isn’t obvious from the parking lot. Head away from the parking lot and information sign toward a little shed that was on your right as you were facing the information sign. Keep the shed on your left as you skirt a row of trees and pass the ends of what are labeled as the Arboretum Rainforest Trail and the Arboretum Dryland Forest Trail (neither is worth bothering with). Keep left at a sign that says ENJOY THE TRAIL. PLEASE WALK WITH CARE. In about ten steps from that sign, you can stop to pick up a guide to the Nature Loop from a self-service dispenser. Continue ahead to a fork, where you bear left, just before a small gully. Innumerable insect voices sing throughout the forest; rainforest roots writhe across the muddy trail. At last you reach the fork at the beginning of the loop portion of the Nature Loop. Turn right at this fork to follow the stations as they’re laid out in the brochure. It’s time to devote your attention to the brochure, the rainforest, and the trail.