After hiking about 2 miles on Kauai’s famous Kalalau Trail, a strenuous and stunning path over the dramatic Napali Coast, I started to feel like it was all becoming too much. This was a problem, I ...

A part of the Kalalau Trail on the Kalalau Section of the Nāpali Coast State Wilderness Park was closed after hikers reported gastrointestinal illness. VWPics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images A ...

The Kalalau Trail, the most popular section of Kauai's iconic Napili Coast State Wilderness Park, is shut down until further notice due to a suspected rare norovirus outbreak. Since Aug. 14, there ...

Hundreds of visitors and up to 60 to 80 backpackers hike the trail every day, but many are unprepared for the heat, steep elevation changes, slippery mud and rocky terrain. Last year, 73 rescues were ...

A portion of the Kalalau Trail on the Hawaiian island of Kauai closed this week after 24 hikers fell ill with a highly contagious norovirus, officials said. The trail beyond the Hanakapiai Valley was ...

“My guts exploding all over that land was not what I wanted to do at all,” one hiker said after she caught the virus and needed to be helicoptered to the hospital Natalia Senanayake is an Editorial ...

KAUAI COUNTY, Hawaii (Island News) -- The DLNR Division of State Parks (DSP) elected to close the entire Kalalau Trail section for public health and safety from norovirus. This decision was guided ...

A hiker was evacuated by air on October 29 from the rugged and remote Kalalau Trail in Hawaii after he was “unable to hike out due to a rapidly worsening infection from an apparent spider bite,” wrote ...

A popular hiking trail in Hawaii had to close this week after 24 hikers became sick from what is believed to be norovirus — an outbreak many blamed on illegal squatters defecating along the remote ...