Hawaii’s Former Hansen’s Disease Settlement to Reopen for Tours

Guided Tours Resume at Remote Hawaii Leprosy Settlement

(MedPage Today) -- A former leprosy settlement in a remote part of Hawaii will reopen this month for the first time since the pandemic, when it closed to shield the few remaining patients, all of whom are over 80, from exposure to COVID-19, officials...

Hawaii’s former Hansen’s Disease settlement to reopen for tours

Tours of Kalaupapa will reopen in late September 2025 after a five-year pandemic closure.

Guided tours resume at the remote Hawaii leprosy settlement of Kalaupapa

A former leprosy settlement in a remote part of Hawaii that’s been closed to tours and religious pilgrimages is reopening this month.

Forbidden Hawaii: Sacred Kalaupapa Opens But Only By Plane

Kalaupapa is reopening on new terms. For us, this isolated peninsula on Molokai is a pilgrimage, where the stories of Father Damien, Mother Marianne Cope, and those who lived there still echo in the silence.