Kalaeloa Heritage Park - March 26 8 AM

What:  Volunteers will be helping with site maintenance of the park, activities such as restoring walking paths, watering, clearing brush.

Please bring water bottles, sunscreen / hats, covered shoes.

About the Park:  https://kalaeloaheritagepark.org/

The Kalaeloa Heritage Park site is a relatively undisturbed, 11-acre parcel with over 50 recorded cultural sites that consist of ancient habitation structures, sinkholes, and the Kualaka’i trail.

These cultural structures are unique and cannot be found anywhere else in Hawai’i. They are constructed of coral and hint at a Tahitian origin due to the integration of upright stones in their construction.

The topography of the area offers important context.  Stretching along the coast from Pearl Harbor to Wai‘anae, the entire ‘Ewa Plain is an emerged coral reef. The land is uneven, tufted and full of crevices, sinkholes, and underground caves — also known as karsts — that carried fresh water and were used as agricultural and sacred sites for early inhabitants.

The vastness of this cultural landscape paints a picture of a community of people that lived and thrived here. It is not a documentation of individual archaeological features but rather a landscape, an ancient community that once lived at a place once known as Kanehili.