Oahu’s Stairway to Heaven trail, comprising 3,922 slick steel steps that ascend the narrow ridges of the Koolau Mountain Range, has been illegal to hike since 1987. Although trespassing cost ...

Get SFGATE's top stories sent to your inbox by signing up for The Daily newsletter here. Concerned about the possibility of additional costs, the Kaneohe Neighborhood Board passed a resolution ...

Now, the treacherous path, known as the “Stairway to Heaven,” is being removed more ... trail by a helicopter crew after a 50-foot-fall, Hawaii News Now reported. In 2016, a pair of hikers ...

People are flocking to Hawaii’s arguably most infamous – and illegal – hike, the Stairway to Heaven, before it is ... modules will be flown off the mountain within the next couple of weeks ...

Honolulu plans to begin permanently deconstructing Hawaii’s controversial Haiku Stairs, popularly called the “Stairway to Heaven,” at ... Oahu’s steep Koolau Mountain Range.

The Ha‘ikū Stairs, referred to as the Stairway to Heaven, is made up of nearly 4,000 treacherous, steel steps across the Koolau Mountain Range on the island of Oahu. The city said the stairs ...

but to hike the “Stairway to Heaven” itself is illegal. First installed during World War II, the Haiku Stairs span nearly 4,000 steps across Oahu’s Koolau Range. The stairs were initially ...