Culture & Community Editor
Beat: Free Things to Do, Things to Do, With Kids
Malia writes about how this coast lives and what it remembers: the heiau on the ridge above Waimea, the plantation towns at Waialua and Kahuku, the island villages at Lāʻie, and the small kitchens that stop serving at eight. She puts names in her copy rather than categories, and when a business up here is Native Hawaiian-owned she says so, because a visitor can act on that.
4 guides · 2 news posts
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Long-form
Reported guides to The North Shore, each with its own publication and last-updated date.
Guide
A sugar town lost its mill in 1971 and put shrimp ponds on the cane land. Fifty years later the roadside stands are the most reliable meal on the North Shore, and they close early.
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Guide
Seven miles of coast with one place to park the car and walk. Haleʻiwa is a former plantation and railway town that turned into the commercial heart of surfing, and still shuts early.
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Guide
Green sea turtles come out of the water here to rest on dry sand, which almost nowhere else in the world lets you see from a public beach. The etiquette is simple and widely ignored.
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Guide
About the same number of people live along this coast as fill a single Waikīkī hotel block, and several million visitors a year drive past their houses. Most of what follows is about that.
9 min read
News desk
Shorter, dated pieces about what is changing in The North Shore.
How this was written. News published under Malia Fonoti's byline was drafted by machine from primary sources — operator notices, government and municipal releases, published schedules — and every factual claim in it was matched to one of those sources before it published. A North Shore Guide editor can change or pull any of it. Our editorial standards.
Seasonal
A 2.5-mile walk on an old railbed ends at 59 acres of restored dune behind a predator-proof fence, with nesting mōlī and hauled-out monk seals.
Beach update
Hawaiian green turtles haul out on this beach to rest, which almost nowhere else in the world lets you watch from a public shore. The etiquette is simple and widely ignored.