Arrests and Citations Boom for Those Attempting One Final Hike of Oahu’s Stairway to Heaven

May 1, 2024

As work begins to dismantle the Stairway to Heaven on Oahu, it hasn’t stopped thrill-seekers from testing their luck with one final illegal summit of the iconic hike. While some were successful in evading the law, many weren’t so lucky.

Of the hundreds of hikers who were reported to have been seen scaling the steep, 3,922-step stairway in the past week or two, so far, at least seven have been arrested while 56 received citations and another 60 received warnings. The Inertia