Aiea Heritage Trail

The Aiea Heritage Trail is a hiking trail in ʻAiea, with a stored address on ʻAiea Heights Drive. At the end of ʻAiea Heights Drive, Keaīwa Heiau State Recreation Area keeps Keaīwa Heiau at its entrance. It is a heiau hoʻōla, a place of medicine and healing, enclosed by a stacked rock wall. No one knows when it was built; one account credits Kākuhihewa, a chief of Oʻahu, and his kahuna Keaīwa. It was badly damaged in World War II, when soldiers camping nearby took its stones to build a road, and it was later rededicated. Please do not move, remove or wrap its rocks. Past the heiau, the park road leads to campgrounds, picnic areas and the trailhead of the ʻAiea Loop Trail. Groves of Norfolk pines and eucalyptus cover the hills above ʻAiea and Pearl Harbor.