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Originally named Moana Park, the Parks Board changed the park’s name to Ala Moana, “path [to the] sea” in 1947. [14] [8] The beach was created in 1954. The deep swimming area fronting the beach is a former boat channel that was dredged through the coral reef in the late 1920s to join Kewalo Basin with the Ala Wai Harbor. In 1955, Hawaiian ...
The Patsy T. Mink Central Oahu Regional Park (CORP) is a 269-acre (1.09 km 2) public park operated by the City and County of Honolulu.It held its grand opening on July 21, 2001 and it is located in Waipio, Oahu just off the Kamehameha Highway.
The legislation provided that the park be set aside permanently as a free public park and recreation ground, forbade the sale or lease of land in the park, and prohibited charging of any entrance fees. Since 1913, the park has been maintained by the City and County of Honolulu's Department of Parks & Recreation. [3]
The City and County of Honolulu took ownership of approximately 400 acres of former Navy-owned land at Kalaeloa that will go toward public recreation use, Mayor Rick Blangiardi announced at a ...
The following 18 or more state parks, monuments, and recreation areas are managed by the Division of State Parks within the Hawai'i Department of Land and Natural Resources: [1] Ahukina Ahupua'a_O_Kahana
The Honolulu Zoo is a 42-acre (17 ha) zoo in Queen Kapiʻolani Park in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. It is the only zoo in the United States to be established by grants made by a sovereign monarch and is built on part of the 300-acre (121 ha) royal Queen Kapiʻolani Park .
Kakaʻako Waterfront Park, also known as "Point Panic Park", is a public park in Kakaʻako, south of downtown Honolulu, just off Ala Moana Boulevard at the end of Cooke Street. It was opened in November 1992 on the site of a former municipal landfill and consists of 35 acres (140,000 m 2 ) of grass-covered rolling hills adjacent to the ocean.
The property was transferred to Honolulu in 1950, and opened as a botanical garden in 1957. ... Department of Parks and Recreation, City and County of Honolulu ...