Hi Jovita. The article has been updated with a map of the popular routes.

Thanks! I hope they’ll keep the stairs. There’s still a legal fight going on. You can read more about that here: https://www.haikustairs.org/

No more news yet. There were plans to remove the stairs, but there’s also been a lot of pushback from Hawaii locals wanting to keep the stairs. You can read more here: https://www.haikustairs.org/

I’ll add a note about that, thanks.

As someone who grew up in a nearby neighborhood in the 80s and still has a good family friend that lives IN the Haiku stairs neighborhood – I’ll tell you one thing hiking blogs and social media posts don’t seem to mention… the history of bad behavior from young, disrespectful hikers who arrive at 4am, don’t even try to keep their noise levels down, cut through the backyards of residents, and use residents hoses to rinse off after hiking the stairway. As the years have gone by and patience thinned then disappeared completely, hikers have tried to be more stealthy but it’s a little too late… I don’t know about you but if all that was happening on a near daily basis to my neighborhood, I’d be pretty upset too! I’m 100% in favor of keeping the stairway and letting hikers continue to hike it, but, David, you might want to add another “item” to bring with you on this hike – a respectful & considerate disposition.

Fair enough. I’ll add a note about that in the article.