Other Kauai Helicopter Waterfalls

There are many other Kauai Helicopter waterfalls (all of which are publicly inaccessible) found on an aerial tour of the island. When you couple these waterfalls with an aerial view of the ruggedly beautiful Na Pali Coast and Waimea Canyon, you'll find it easier to justify the pain of shelling out hundreds of dollars per person for such a tour.

I generally have mixed feelings about motorized tours such as this because of the noise and pollution they generate. However, there's no denying the beauty of the island you can experience through this method that you can't get any other way.

Besides the major waterfalls already highlighted in this web page such as the Jurassic Falls, the Five Sisters Falls, Wai'alae Falls, and Pu'u Ka Ele Falls, we'll highlight the other waterfalls you might find in Kaua'i.

Perhaps the most notable set of falls you can find reside just beneath Mt Wai'ale'ale - the wettest spot on earth. It is here that the helicopter tour companies will fly into the caldera of the Wai'ale'ale Crater where you will be surrounded by countless water grooves etched on the green and vertical 3000ft walls. Depending on how much rain has fallen in the area, you may see just a few of the grooves filled in with waterfalls or you might just see all the grooves pumping with a dazzling display of falls. Given the low rainfall, we only saw the former (as seen on this page). At the back of the crater, you might also see the so-called Weeping Wall which usually has waterfalls on its bare section.

Another area that might yield numerous falls is the Hanalei River Valley. Again on our tour, there was just a few falls going off the valley walls, but in rainier times, it would be littered with countless falls.

Likewise, there are countless waterfalls you might find coming down the various wrinkles of the mountains of the Na Pali Coast as well as the dropoffs in Waimea Canyon.

There's simply too many waterfalls here and you'll undoubtedly have varying experiences depending on the weather, tour, pilot, etc. So I'll just post some of the chopper pics we took and let them do the rest of the talking...

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Contextual view of the Wai'ale'ale Crater

A closer look at the Wai'ale'ale Crater

Aerial view of Hanakoa Falls

A trio of thin waterfalls at the so-called Fake Crater