{"id":265778,"date":"2010-02-02T11:45:14","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T16:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"1777 at http:\/\/atlasobscura.com"},"modified":"2010-02-02T11:45:14","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T16:45:14","slug":"haiku-stairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/265778","title":{"rendered":"Ha&#8217;ik\u016b Stairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/globe\/north-america\/us\/hawaii\">Hawaii<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/globe\/north-america\/us\">US<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/categories\/intriguing-environs\">Intriguing Environs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Ha&#8217;ik\u016b Stairs, aptly nicknamed the Stairway to Heaven, is a steep climb on the island of O\u02bbahu that seems to disappear into the sky itself. <\/p>\n<p>The trail got its start as a simple wooden latter attached to the cliff. It was installed during WWII to facilitate the building of giant antenna cables between the cliffs above Ha\u02bbik\u016b Valley. These, along with a building at the peak, could transmit signals that could reach submarines as far away as Tokyo Bay, even to submarines submerged underwater.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1950s, the wooden stairs were replaced by metal steps and ramps; with counts numbering 3,922 steps. The trail was officially closed in 1987, but many hikers continue to ignore the &#8220;No Trespassing&#8221; signs and make the climb for the awe-inspiring view at the top.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.atlasobscura.com\/files\/imagecache\/place_main\/place_images\/HaikuLadder1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"  width=\"280\" height=\"373\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hawaii, US | Intriguing Environs The Ha&#8217;ik\u016b Stairs, aptly nicknamed the Stairway to Heaven, is a steep climb on the island of O\u02bbahu that seems to disappear into the sky itself. The trail got its start as a simple wooden latter attached to the cliff. It was installed during WWII to facilitate the building of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265778\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}