Kapiʻolani Regional Park

This guide to Kapiʻolani Regional Park in Honolulu opens with King Kalakaua's grand 1877 horse racetrack on this coastal marsh, named for the wife who stood quietly beside him at its opening. You'll hear how Queen Kapiolani turned her attention instead to mothers and children affected by the leprosy colony at Kalaupapa, and about Archibald Cleghorn, the Edinburgh shopkeeper's son who became Honolulu's first parks commissioner. The banyan trees they planted still shade the paths where joggers now run.