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C+Outdoors
Outdoors in Ahuimanu

Few parks or trails are on the map in Ahuimanu

21% of Ahuimanu’s land is conserved, about 358 acres. 0.4 miles of mapped trail cross Ahuimanu, 0.1 per square mile of land. 45% of residents live within a half mile of a park.

Ahead of 38% of U.S. towns · #79 of 93 in Hawaii. What drives it

Conserved land
21%
358 acres · of 2.7 sq mi of land
Trails
0.4 mi
0.1 per sq mi of land
Near a park
45%
of residents within ½ mile
Bike routes
1.3 mi

What kind of outdoors town is Ahuimanu?

Read from the map. The page puts what stands out first.

Outdoors grade

How much outdoors does Ahuimanu have?

On conserved land, trails, park land and how close residents live to a park, Ahuimanu is ahead of 38% of U.S. towns, #79 of 93 in Hawaii. Conserved land holds the grade up; park acres per resident pull it down.

C+
OutdoorsA character grade: shown, never part of Ahuimanu’s overall grade.
All U.S. towns we grade (21,298)Ahead of 38%
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Hawaii towns of 2,500+ (93)Ahead of 15%

Hawaii towns conserve more land than most (a typical one, 14%; the U.S., 4%), so Ahuimanu’s 21% is ahead of 66% of Hawaii towns, while its trails per square mile lead 16% of them.

NoteFew parks or trails are mapped in Ahuimanu. OpenStreetMap is mapped by volunteers and coverage varies from town to town, so a town with unmapped parks scores low on them.
How sure. Graded on any three of the four inputs instead, the letter would range from C− to B. Trails and many small parks come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by volunteers, so coverage varies from town to town; the half mile is a straight line from each census block, so a river or highway in the way isn’t counted against it.

PAD-US, OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors), Census 2025 Gazetteer and 2020 blocks; details in Sources below. How TownRatings grades the outdoors →

The map

Conserved land, trails & bike routes

Tap a number to zoom to a park. Tap a layer to hide it.

Easements protect land from building but are usually private.© OpenStreetMap contributors · USGS PAD-US
Who protects it

358 conserved acres

21% of Ahuimanu’s land. Who manages Ahuimanu’s conserved land, from the USGS Protected Areas Database. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.

County354 ac
State Department of Land4 ac
Local Other or Unknown · 354 acState Resource Management Area · 4 ac
Good to know

Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors. Public access isn’t recorded for 2 of 3 parcels. The walks above are places people visit.

The biggest protected parcels
Parcel (PAD-US)Managed byAcresPublic access
County Land Local Other or Unknown
Local Other or Unknown
County354Unknown
State Department of Land State Resource Management Area
State Resource Management Area
State Department of Land4Open
Things to do

2 places to go in Ahuimanu

Beaches, playgrounds, peaks, falls and more. Pick a kind.

Playgrounds in Ahuimanu
ʻBlueʻ Neighborhood Playground
Directions
Trails & water

1 named trail

Named trails
Ko'olau Summit Trail0.2 mi
Biking & sports

1.3 miles of bike routes

Bike lanes are often missing from the map in smaller towns, so that number is likely low.

1.3 mi
shoulders & shared lanes
Courts & fields
2Basketball
2Tennis

Includes school and college facilities, which aren’t always open to the public.

History along the way

1 place on the National Register

The country’s official list of places worth saving (National Park Service).

History →
Kahaluu Taro Lo'iDistrict · listed 1973
About it
When to get out

The best walking months in Ahuimanu: April to August

NOAA’s 1991–2020 normals for the town and the daylight at its latitude. Outlined months have long days, highs of 59 to 86 °F and little rain for the place.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Daylight (h)11.011.412.012.613.213.413.312.912.211.611.110.8
High (°F)787777798183838484828078
Rain (in)6.27.49.05.54.94.44.75.46.47.28.07.1

June is the driest month (4.4 in) and August the warmest (highs of 84 °F). 9.0 inches fall in March, the wettest month. The climate in Ahuimanu →

Next door

Ahuimanu and its neighbors

Ahuimanu has the second most mapped trails of the 3 towns around it. Tap a town to see its outdoors.

TownConserved
of land
Trail mi
per sq mi
Park acres
per 1,000
Near a park
½ mile
Outdoors
Ahuimanu21%0.1under 145%C+
Kahaluu15%0.24593%A−
Heeia29%under 0.1276%B−

The four inputs of the Outdoors grade, from the engine; shares are of land, not water.

Questions about parks and trails in Ahuimanu

How much of Ahuimanu is conserved land?

21% of its land, against a typical 14% for a Hawaii town and 4% nationally (PAD-US). Conserved doesn’t always mean open to visitors: easements are usually private land.

Where can I bike in Ahuimanu?

1.3 miles of bike routes are on the map: 1.3 of shoulders and shared lanes.

Is there public land near Ahuimanu?

24,080 acres of parks and open public land lie inside Ahuimanu or within 10 miles of it (PAD-US), 4 of them inside the town line.

How much outdoors does Ahuimanu have?

Ahead of 38% of U.S. towns on the Outdoors grade, #79 of 93 in Hawaii. The grade combines the share of land that is conserved, miles of mapped trail per square mile of land, park acres per 1,000 residents and the share of residents within a half mile of a park. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.

Trail talk

Conditions, parking and favorite walks from Ahuimanu neighbors.

Town Square →
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Sources

Where this page comes from

Conserved and public land: USGS Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US), service updated July 2026. Parks, trails, playgrounds, beaches and other places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL), map data as of 2026-10-28. Land and water area: Census 2025 Gazetteer. Residents near a park: 2020 Census blocks. National Register: National Park Service. How TownRatings grades the outdoors →