Division of Forestry and Wildlife: Outdoor Recreation

Pololū Planning Project

Welcome to the Pololū Planning Project page. Here, you’ll find all the public documents relating to the ongoing planning project funded by the legislature through a CIP (Capital Improvement Project) allocation. The goal of the project is to engage with the communities and lineal descendants connected to Pololū and to develop a plan to best manage the lookout, parking area, and trail incorporating their valuable input. The planning firm Townscape was selected to create this community-driven plan and comes with decades of experience working with rural Hawai‘i communities, including in Kohala.

Click the links below to review related websites and documents:

Final Environmental Assessment, May 2025

The purpose of this assessment is to identify any impacts the proposed management plan may have on the environment and to outline measures to mitigate those impacts. The Final Environmental Assessment determined a “finding of no significant impact.”

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Draft Environmental Assessment, March 2025

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(Comments were accepted from March 21 to April 22, 2025)

FINAL Pololū Trailhead Management Plan, September 2024

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DRAFT Pololū Trailhead Management Plan, January 2024

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Interactive Storymap
(Comments were accepted from January 25- March 1, 2024)

Community Meetings:

Second Community Meeting: Draft Plan Update

The Second round of community meetings was held on January 30, 2024 (in-person) and February 6, 2024 (virtual). See below for information from those meetings:

View meeting Slide Show

View meeting information flyer