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Using This Book

How This Book Organizes the Trips

Kauai is closer to being round than any of the other major Hawaiian islands. And Mt. Waialeale sits almost in the middle of it. Imagine the hour hand of a clock pinned to Mt. Waialeale, and I’ll use the clock analogy for describing where the trip is on Kauai’s circumference. At 12 o’clock, for example, the imaginary Kauai clock hand points to Hanalei. At 6 o’clock, the hand points a little past Poipu.

The trips start, of course, at 12 o’clock at Hanalei and move clockwise around Kauai past Kapaa, Lihue, Poipu, Waimea, Kekaha, Waimea Canyon State Park, Polihale, Kokee State Park, the Na Pali Coast on the northwestern edge of the island, and finally, at about 11 o’clock, to Haena at the end of the highway past Hanalei.

And that’s pretty much the order in which you’ll find them in this book. One exception is the trips that begin on Mohihi Road in the Kokee area. First, the book covers the trips whose trailheads are on the main road that passes through Kokee State Park, Highway 550. Mohihi Road branches off Highway 550, and I’ve put hikes whose trailheads are on Mohihi Road after the hikes whose trailheads are on 550. Mohihi Road starts out going west to east but eventually turns south. Trips starting from Mohihi Road appear in the order you’d find their trailheads as you traveled farther away from Kokee State Park on Mohihi Road. Another exception is the Awaawapuhi Trail, which follows the Nualolo Trail even though the Awaawapuhi trailhead is much farther up Highway 550 than the Nualolo trailhead, and the two trailheads are separated by other trailheads. But I want to keep them together because you can link the Nualolo and Awaawapuhi trails together in a wonderful shuttle or loop trip, and the description of that trip follows the Nualolo and Awaawapuhi trail descriptions. (Those of you who have this book’s first edition will recognize that I’ve reorganized the hikes in this area, as some readers suggested.)