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You will also find hiking information on Na Ala Hele’s website, www.hawaiitrails.org. Trail information there isn’t detailed, and the site doesn’t cover all trails in this book, but the driving directions are good. This site also lists licensed trail guides, if any, by trail.

If you’ve written ahead for recreation information about one of the other major islands, you’ve probably received a copy of that island’s DLNR recreation map. These maps give you an island-wide overview map and brief text descriptions of hiking and hunting opportunities. When up to date, they’re valuable for showing where the public recreation opportunities are. Oahu, unlike the other major islands, lacks a DLNR recreation map. However, you can print out some Oahu trail maps from the Na Ala Hele website (www.hawaiitrails.org).

Oahu is covered by 15 USGS 7½′ topos, as shown in the illustration below. (You won’t need them all.) It’s best to get the topos you want in advance so you can study them. If your mainland backpacking store does not carry the Hawaii topos, you can get them directly from the USGS. Their website has an excellent interactive topo-purchasing feature, so log onto store.usgs.gov. The site also includes listings of retailers that sell USGS topos, with additional links to those retailers’ websites, if any. People who have the TOPO! program and plan to do a lot of hiking on Hawaii may wish to get the Hawaii series for TOPO! and to print out their own trail maps (be sure you waterproof the maps).