Tantalus Lookout - Puu Ualakaa State Park

This guide to Tantalus Lookout at Puu Ualakaa State Park in Honolulu opens with a group of Honolulu schoolboys in the 1840s, scrambling up a slope that seemed to retreat every time they climbed, until they named it for a figure from Greek myth. It traces the hill's older Hawaiian name, the hill of the rolling sweet potato, and the tradition that King Kamehameha the First once farmed this same steep ground. Come at a clear hour, when the cinder cone rewards the climb.