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Weeping Wall

Kauai County, Hawaii

Your visit at a glance

Waterfall height
Not recorded
Location
Kauai County, Hawaii
Access status
Partial guide: distant view from the weir only; current gate status unconfirmed
The walk
About 8 miles return to the weir viewpoint
Ground & access
Rough, muddy dirt road with stream and spillway crossings. Do not cross if water is up or moving fast. Flash floods can turn ankle-deep water chest-high in under an hour. Remote, with spotty phone reception.
Hawaii-Guide: Waialeale Blue Hole Hike

The Weeping Wall is the waterfall-streaked inner wall of Mount Waialeale. Hawaii-Guide routes visitors from the Keahua Arboretum parking lot along the Wailua Forest Management Road (left at the fork) to the gate and then the stream diversion weir, where you can see into the basin when clouds allow. The guide deliberately does not route visitors to the base of the wall, which it calls extremely difficult and technical.

Plan your visit

Keahua Arboretum parking to the Wailua River weir, view into the Waialeale basin (Weeping Wall)

Hawaii-Guide totals 3.5 miles one way from the Keahua parking lot to the gate, plus about 0.5 mile to the weir, and says to figure about 8 miles round trip if you stop at the weir. Going on to the base of the wall is much farther and is not described here.

Rough, muddy dirt road with stream and spillway crossings. Do not cross if water is up or moving fast. Flash floods can turn ankle-deep water chest-high in under an hour. Remote, with spotty phone reception.

Where to start

Parking lot at the end of paved Kuamoo Road (Highway 580) beside Keahua Arboretum. The road beyond is unpaved and very rough; Hawaii-Guide says the state may lock a gate on weekdays during road work.

Timing & water

Weather and flooding control access. The source's notes on the inner gate being open date from visits in 2009 to 2012. Current gate and road status were not confirmed.

Before you go

No fee or reservation is mentioned in the reviewed source.

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Kauai County, Hawaii.

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