Waimea Canyon River Trail

This is a great trail with fantastic views. This is a nice escape from all of the people you will likely find in so many locations on Kauai.

Water to high to cross over

Loved the views. Biked down Waimea canyon too.

Lovely trail; would definitely do it again. Great if you want to get away from people. Didn’t meet a single person for the two days (past the first campsite). Trail is in good condition but do bring a map or something as you should stay on the east side of the river after the third crossing. That’s the only point where you could potentially get lost or take the wrong way since it might look like the trail wants you to do another crossing. River crossing can be done hopping from stone to stone as long as it hasn’t been raining. Lovely water pools for swimming and nice campsite once you reach the end of the trail (need to get a permit for camping on any of the sites).

See kukui trail for the starts. But once you reach the river and go north, that's where the trouble starts. First, you'll need to have river crossing shoes (you can't just hop from rock to rock). I think 4 river crossing (x2 if you come back). ALSO, at one point after the second campground, you end up in a very dense jungle. There MIGHT be another way, another trail, I don't know. But there were signs that it was there (including an actual sign saying this was the trail, and you could kind of see that this was the way of lesser resistance, but still, it was very hard). It was dense foliage, walking at much slower pace than 0.5 mile/hour, and the foliage would cut you along the way. I had rash all over my forearms and legs for about a week... Maybe wear long sleeves? Anyhow, be prepared, or find a better route!