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<\/a>New boardwalk at Kaloko-Honok\u014dhau National Historical Park.<\/p>\nThe petroglyph boardwalk at Kaloko-Honok\u014dhau National Historical Park is now open.<\/p>\n
The boardwalk was closed for several months for repairs. The updated boardwalk helps protect these cultural resources while making the area more accessible, according to a Facebook post from the park. Benches and a shaded structure will also be installed soon.<\/p>\n
Work began to repair the walkway, replacing old wood with new planks, on Oct. 27, 2025.<\/p>\n
Located in North Kona, less than five miles south of the Ellison Onizuka Kona International Airport, Kaloko-Honok\u014dhau was once a fishing village for the ancient Hawaiians, where they caught and farmed fish. The petroglyphs are carved in old lava flows that extend toward the coastline.<\/p>\n
Established as a national historical park in 1978, the 1,200-acre park protects the coastal portions of five different ahupua\u2018a (traditional Hawaiian land divisions extending from the mountains into the sea), and a great concentration and variety of tangible and intangible resources that attest to the Hawaiians\u2019 presence on the land, according to the National Park Service website<\/a>.<\/p>\n Among the park\u2019s diverse resources are loko i\u2018a (two fishponds and a fishtrap that were used for food production), kahua (house site platforms), ki\u2018i p\u014dhaku (petroglyphs), heiau (temples), graves, and a network of historic trails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"May 28, 2026, 8:00 AM HST New boardwalk at Kaloko-Honok\u014dhau National Historical Park. The petroglyph boardwalk at Kaloko-Honok\u014dhau…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":829504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[23],"tags":[204265,746,340444,21647,49758,340445,340446,159,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-829503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-boardwalk","tag-environment","tag-fishing-ponds","tag-hawaii-county","tag-historical-site","tag-kaloko-honokohau-national-historic-park","tag-petroglyphs","tag-science","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116656492254120926","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>Big Island Now file photo of Kaloko-Honok\u014dhau National Historical Park.<\/p>\n