Best Free Places to Visit in Honolulu on Oahu Island, Hawaii

Best Free Places to Visit in Honolulu on Oahu Island, Hawaii - A local girl shares her favorite places for free family fun!

Lyon Arboretum

The Lyon Arboretum and Botanical Garden is the only University botanical garden located in a tropical rainforest in the United States. It is also the only easily accessible tropical rainforest on the island of O'ahu. It currently consists of almost 200 acres at the top of the Manoa watershed with a set of small cottages and greenhouses used for research and community education about plants and the natural environments of Hawai'i.

Mount Tantalus

The drive through the Honolulu Forest Reserve on Mount Tantalus Drive winds through a dense and beautiful rainforest. At the 2000 foot summit, there is a lookout at Puu Ualakaa State Wayside Park, with beautiful, panoramic views of Diamond Head Crater, Waikiki, Punchbowl Crater, the Manoa Valley, the University of Hawaii, the Makiki Valley, and Pearl Harbor.

Kapiolani Park

Kapi'olani spelled the proper Hawaiian way was a Queen of Hawaii back in the 1800's Kapi'olani Park name for her as many aspects such as space and roominess to give the tourist a breath of fresh air, swim on the beach visit the zoo, see Artists at work and local ohana (families) and clubs playing and having fun. or attend.

Punchbowl Crater

Built in 1948 this National Cemetery is located in the Pu'owaina Crater (Punchbowl). In ancient times this crater was known as the "Hill of Sacrifice". So today the cemetery is a memorial to the sacrifice made by the men and women in the United States Armed Services. Dedicated on September 2, 1949, 776 casualties from the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor were among the first to be buried here.