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Diamond Head’s popularity with visitors keeps it in the top position on a list of sites requiring rescues

COURTESY DLNR / March 8, 2018
                                Tourists flock to the main trail up Diamond Head, one of the state’s top attractions. Over five years, the Honolulu Fire Department rescued three times as many hikers from Diamond Head State Monument as from the outlawed “Stairway to Heaven” on Oahu’s Windward Side.

COURTESY DLNR / March 8, 2018

Tourists flock to the main trail up Diamond Head, one of the state’s top attractions. Over five years, the Honolulu Fire Department rescued three times as many hikers from Diamond Head State Monument as from the outlawed “Stairway to Heaven” on Oahu’s Windward Side.