Big Island · North Kohala
Moʻokini Luakini Heiau
Moʻokini
This place asks to be respected from a distance. Please do not enter.
Moʻokini Luakini Heiau sits on the windswept northwest tip of the Kohala peninsula near 'Upolu Point, on a dirt road off Hwy 270 past 'Upolu Airport…
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Moʻokini is sacred ground and an active site of the Moʻokini family's hereditary religious practice — a continuous priestly line going back, in their own genealogy, to the year 480. The heiau is kapu — do not enter the structure, do not climb on the walls, do not touch. Walk the marked path on the perimeter only. Photograph the structure if you must, not yourself in front of it. Leave nothing. Take nothing. The dirt road in can be impassable in heavy rain; check before driving in. There is no shade, no water, no facilities. Bring what you need and leave with what you brought.