Guide
Where to Stay on the North Shore, and Whether You Should
One large resort, a thin and legally complicated rental market, two campgrounds and a coast where dinner stops at seven. Staying up here is a decision, not a default.
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Nalani Kahale
Senior Editor
Beat: Things to Do, Getting Around, Day Trips
Nalani edits everything on this site that touches access, closures and how a visitor ought to behave up here. She grew up between Waialua and Honolulu and has spent a decade on Hawaiʻi visitor coverage. She reads state park and Ocean Safety notices before she reads anyone's marketing, and spells place names the way the families who live in them do.
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Guides by Nalani Kahale
Reported guides to The North Shore, each with its own publication and last-updated date.
Guide
The North Shore With Children, Season by Season
In July the North Shore is one of the best family coasts in Hawaiʻi. In January it is a place to watch from behind a rope. Planning the right one is the whole job.
9 min read
FeaturedGuide
Driving the North Shore Loop: Which Way Round and Why
About a hundred miles, three and a half hours of driving and no road around Kaʻena Point. Which direction you choose decides which side of the car the ocean is on.
9 min read
FeaturedGuide
The North Shore in a Day, Driven from Waikīkī
Thirty-five miles and about an hour of driving, and almost everybody gets it wrong by arriving at eleven. The whole day turns on leaving early enough to beat the Haleʻiwa bottleneck.
8 min read
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News under Nalani Kahale's byline
Shorter, dated pieces about what is changing in The North Shore.
How this was written. News published under Nalani Kahale'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.
Travel alert
Hurricane Season and Vog: The Two Air-and-Weather Things
Two things that affect a North Shore trip and almost never get mentioned in the planning stage. Neither is a reason to cancel, and both are worth knowing about.
Travel alert
One Road In: Haleʻiwa Traffic on the Days It Matters
The constraint on a North Shore day is not the 35 miles from Waikīkī. It is the last two, and the twelve after them, on a single-lane highway with no alternative.