A Completely Inaccessible Portal in a Closed County

Kalaupapa Lighthouse https://intel.ingress.com/intel?pll=21.209539,-156.969691&z=17

This portal is completely inaccessible, and has been for many years. NO ONE CAN ACCESS IT ANY LONGER. It is located in Kalawao County that is closed to the public by state law. It is against the law to access any part of that county, by boat, by tour, by fly-overs, and by any means whatsoever. Kalawao County is closed to the general public and commercial tours (per authority under HRS 326) in alignment with CDC and Hawaii State Department of Health guidance “Trespassers will be arrested and fined”. The National Park Service-Kalaupapa, HI - Alerts and Conditions - PARK CLOSURE. And it has been this way for YEARS now. https://www.nps.gov/kala/index.htm

The County is a CLOSED COUNTY per State Law. “https://trackbill.com/bill/hawaii-department-committee-258-rpt-annual-report-to-the-legislature-on-initiatives-and-improvements-in-kalaupapa-settlement-doh/2313572/. Page 8. The county is closed and the path to access the lighthouse is also closed. You can not fly over it due to its proximity to the Restricted airfield, closed to the public and tours, and boats are not allowed anywhere near that county due to it still being a leper colony. WHICH IS CLOSED TO ALL OUTSIDERS, visitors, tours, the public, etc. It is prohibited to come within ¼ mile of the Kalaupapa shoreline. Phones are even non-operational mostly due to intermittent outages with their phone lines. It is an inaccessible portal in a closed county which is a leper colony which is closed.

Please remove this portal immediately. It has been inaccessible for many years now.

Comments

  • @NianticBrian I was told you could look into this for us. Will you please? The links above prove this portal is inaccessible to everyone.

  • KhatreKhatre ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 2023

    niantic says public access isn't required, if 1 agent can access it's OK.

  • Neku69Neku69 ✭✭✭✭

    I read it and it has some requirements to access it. There were monthly visits but they got suspended because of COVID 19 and some more stuff.

  • VenomousToadVenomousToad ✭✭✭✭✭

    Public access isn't a requirement. Even portals on private businesses are ok. Government facilities with no public access are ok. Military bases ok. Power stations are ok. Always been that way and always will. Take one away you have to take them all away. And it's obvious that will never happen.

  • DSktrDSktr ✭✭✭✭

    BTW portal is captured by NiaSection#14 the same which deploys BB? Is it modern way to restore Portals or how that happened?

  • KonnTowerKonnTower ✭✭✭✭✭

    Why are you posting this here? The correct location is the Wayfarer forums. Zero people here have the ability to help.

  • To get there legally, you have to take a trail that is extremely physically challenging and dangerous. There are no medical facilities there. The phone lines aren’t working most the time. You cannot drive there. So whoever posted that you can is wrong. There are no overnight accommodations anywhere in that county. The National Park Service is not in charge of this park, the Department of Health is. It is not a Portal with safe pedestrian access. It is a leper colony. You cannot just go to the lighthouse. There is no pedestrian access there.

  • And without special permission obtained, which no one would get because they want to go visit a lighthouse to play a game, you cannot access the portal let alone the county.

  • ZeroHecksGivenZeroHecksGiven ✭✭✭✭✭

    We'll see what @NianticBrian has to say I guess.

    You can start holding your breath in 3, 2.......

  • grendelwulfgrendelwulf ✭✭✭✭✭

    A physically challenging trail sounds like fun

  • VenomousToadVenomousToad ✭✭✭✭✭

    Just because you can't get to it doesn't mean nobody else can. Someone probably maintains it. Legit. Move on.

  • MirthmakerMirthmaker ✭✭✭✭

    Who would want to go to a leper colony (Hansen's Disease sufferers) for a portal?

  • MrNateJoMrNateJo ✭✭✭

    Ok. Flip this conversation on the head. Are any agents part of this colony?

  • So if you're religious and you can convince the pilgrimage tour to swing by the lighthouse, it's accessible. Or if you can swing one of the H-NPS permits to access the lighthouse you're good.

    Basically, another case of "Too hard, you have to remove".

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