Kalopa-Our Favorite Ride

Dropping into a dry wash. This streambed rarely has any water flowing in it.

A little bark is good for the mountain biker's diet.

Former pro racers are always the biggest clowns.

A little log hopping in the parking lot for warmup.

It doesn't get much prettier than this, with leaf covered trails lined with ferns and trees.

There's a great log in the parking lot to practice on. Hop up on one end, ride down the log and wheelie off the other end. Great practice at the end of a ride.

Kalopa's a great place to practice riding log piles. There's a bunch of them throughout the park.

Here's the map of the trails. The old jeep road up the center of the park is right behind this map station.

Kalopa is a 615 acre state park located on the northern side of the island above Honokaa. It's a heavily planted forest of native and non-native trees with about 6-7 miles of singletrack trails for hiking and biking. Best of all the trails are actually real dirt! Come to the Big Island and you will understand. Being the most recently created of the Hawaiian Islands, there is very little dirt and we mostly ride on lava rock trails.