Interesting item in today’s Advertiser “Bureaucracy Buster” column, where a reader asks whether streams are “public property” —
Q. I was walking in a stream and was told by a security guard that the stream was private property as well as all the land surrounding and I could not be in it.
It was my understanding that Hawai’i streams are public property and the public can be in them. What is the law?
The response correctly notes the answer is “no,” that Hawaii streams are not like beaches and can be privately owned. Worth a read.