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How Hawaii is trying to save Haena State Park, a Kauai tourist hotspot that s been loved to death
Michele Bigley
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Loved to death: Haena State Park is a popular destination for many visitors.Getty Images
It used to be her favorite beach on the North Shore of Kauai, but Mehana Blaich Vaughan hated taking her children to over-touristed Haena State Park. Like many Hawaiian families from the Hanalei region, she never imagined she could show her kids the Ke’e Beach of her childhood a sacred swath of white sand abundant with humuhumunukunukuapuaa, the Hawaiian state fish, with “crystal clean water and no cigarette butts in the sand.”