Tantalus Lookout (Puu Ualakaa)

This lookout is Puʻu ʻUalakaʻa State Wayside, a Hawaii State Parks site on a forested cinder cone close to downtown Honolulu. From the lookout the view sweeps across southern Oʻahu, from Diamond Head to Pearl Harbor, including Honolulu and Mānoa Valley. There are picnic shelters, picnic tables, a restroom and a water fountain, and the ʻUalakaʻa Loop Trail starts here. It is not open around the clock: the wayside keeps set hours, closing later in summer and earlier from the day after Labor Day. Hawaii residents park free, and non-residents now pay a parking fee per vehicle. Leave pets and alcohol at home, and do not smoke at the wayside.