South Side Hapa Trail
Hapa Trail is a two-mile long roadway that directly links Koloa town to the Poipu Beach area. It was basically abondonded when Poipu Road was developed in the 1950s. Hapa Trail has been identified as a highly desired pedestrian / bicycle path to connect these two communities and the residences in-between, but actual improvements to the Trail (other than Koloa Community Association's periodic mowing and keeping the cactus and haole koa cut back) have yet to be made.
Updated information on the Hapa Trail project is posted at the Hapa Trail web site.
E-mail from: Marty Kuala, Koloa Community Association, sent September 30, 2009
Subject: a victory for Hapa Trail
Aloha Hapa Trail supporters,
In February Goodfellow Brothers plowed through a portion of Hapa Trail while grubbing at the Village at Poipu project. They were cited by the County and the State and plead guilty. Yesterday, in the court of Judge Trudy Senda they were fined 2,200 cubic yards of pohaku which will be used to restore the Hapa Trail walls.
Together with the 2,000 linear feet Knudsen Trust must provide, this should be enough pohaku to restore both sides of the trail all the way to St Raphael's Church, as they were in 1975. We all owe a debt of gratitude to our County Prosecutor, Shaylene Iseri-Carvalho for her diligence and hard work on behalf of Kaua`i's citizens.The pohaku will be stored on the site of Honu Group's prosective shopping center, thanks to Mona Abadir.
It is a small but important victory in a long battle. Your support is appreciated and very much needed............Mahalo
