Where is kipu falls

Turn right onto Hwy 50, and drive east for about 3 miles to Kipu Road. Turn right onto Kipu Road, heading south for a quarter mile to the fork. Turn right at the fork onto the narrow paved road, and look for parking at the dirt pullouts just before the bridge. You must be logged in to submit content.

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Subscribe and get exclusive curated content delivered to your inbox every Wednesday. Waterfall Wednesdays!!! I think it tumbles about 15ft over some slippery rocks. Accessing Kipu Falls From the dirt pullouts for parking; see directions below , we followed the narrow, slippery packed-mud path surrounded by tall sugarcane plants.

Within minutes, the path reached a fork. A short, steep slippery scramble to the right led to the top of Kipu Falls. Another look at people doing cliff dives from the top of Kipu Falls To the right of it, there was supposedly a scramble down to the opposite side of the plunge pool across from the falls.

A consistent trickle of people walked to and from the spot along the trail. The Kauai Fire Department sent rescue crews to Kipu Falls 10 times last year, and twice so far this year. Monty Downs, a doctor at Kauai's Wilcox hospital, said someone comes to his emergency room from Kipu Falls every few months. In recent years, they've included a year-old man who suffered major chest injuries when he swung from a rope over the pool but failed to let go and slammed into the cliff.

He required surgery, but survived. Despite suspicions about mysterious forces, John Blalock, deputy chief of the Kauai Fire Department, said Kipu Falls doesn't have any strange or unusual currents. His rescue divers tell him the water is actually calm under the surface.

Locals who frequent the spot say the falls have a current, but only a downstream flow — exactly what you would expect in a river. Instead, Blalock attributes the high number of deaths and injuries to tourists getting in over their heads. He compared travelers from big cities or the U. Kipu Falls isn't the only place tourists have encountered danger. Earlier this month, a visitor from California died after being sucked into a blowhole on Maui.

Witnesses said he was frolicking in the sprays when he disappeared. Grove Farm, a former sugar plantation that now owns a fish farm and leases farmland, is in a dilemma over Kipu Falls. Closing it off would be an expensive undertaking for a small Kauai company that has only about a dozen employees. A fence could break and Grove Farm could be held responsible for not maintaining the barrier.

If the company posts warning signs, it would be acknowledging the area is risky, exposing itself to liability. Locals who have enjoyed the pool for years fear they would lose one of the places they love most if Grove Farm blocks access. Downs, the emergency room doctor, said he's reluctantly concluded that's exactly what should be done.

Daniel Hale, a tour boat captain who has been swimming at the falls for about a decade, is sympathetic to families who have lost loved ones. But he said the accidents shouldn't lead to closure. It doesn't cushion you," Hale said.

Kauhi, whose son died there in December, hopes something can be done to prevent more drownings. As a Native Hawaiian, she also hopes a Hawaiian priest will bless the place and the people who have passed there. I'm just very sad, and I'm sure all these other families are grieving just like me. News U. Politics Joe Biden Congress Extremism. Special Projects Highline.

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