Kakaako Waterfront Park
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Kaka'ako Waterfront Park, also known as "Point Panic Park", is a free public park south of downtown Honolulu, just off Ala Moana Boulevard at the end of Cooke Street. It was opened in November 1992 on the site of a former municipal landfill
and consists of 35 acres (141,640.1 m²) of grass-covered rolling hills adjacent to the ocean. There is no sandy beach at this location, and access to the ocean is by concrete stairs. The park has bathrooms, water fountains, free parking, picnic tables, an amphitheater, pay telephones, paved jogging paths, and a popular surfing
spots "Point Panic" and "Flies".
Management of Kaka'ako Waterfront Park has been transferred to the Hawaii Community Development Corporation.
Landfill
A landfill site , is a site for the disposal of waste materials by burial and is the oldest form of waste treatment...
and consists of 35 acres (141,640.1 m²) of grass-covered rolling hills adjacent to the ocean. There is no sandy beach at this location, and access to the ocean is by concrete stairs. The park has bathrooms, water fountains, free parking, picnic tables, an amphitheater, pay telephones, paved jogging paths, and a popular surfing
Surfing
Surfing' is a surface water sport in which the surfer rides a surfboard on the crest and face of a wave which is carrying the surfer towards the shore...
spots "Point Panic" and "Flies".
Management of Kaka'ako Waterfront Park has been transferred to the Hawaii Community Development Corporation.
Sculptures in the park
- Lahui, a silicon bronze sheet sculpture by Sean K. L. BrowneSean K. L. BrowneSean Kekamakupaa Lee Loy Browne is a contemporary sculptor who was born in Hilo, Hawaii. He attended the Kamehameha Schools and then earned a BA in studio art from the University of Redlands in 1975. In 1981, he studied marble carving under Paoli Silverio in Pietrasanta, Italy and was later...
, 1992 - Ano Lani, a bronze sculptureBronze sculptureBronze is the most popular metal for cast metal sculptures; a cast bronze sculpture is often called simply a "bronze".Common bronze alloys have the unusual and desirable property of expanding slightly just before they set, thus filling the finest details of a mold. Then, as the bronze cools, it...
by Frank SheriffFrank SheriffFrank Sheriff is an abstract sculptor who was born in Yokohama, Japan to an American father and a Japanese-American mother. Because his father was employed by the United States Army, Frank lived in Japan, Nevada, California, New York, Texas, North Carolina, and Hawaii during his childhood...
, 1993 - A monument to the dead of the Ehime Maru and USS Greeneville collisionEhime Maru and USS Greeneville collisionThe Ehime Maru and USS Greeneville collision was a ship collision between the United States Navy submarine USS Greeneville and the Japanese fishery high school training ship Ehime Maru on 9 February 2001, about off the south coast of Oahu, Hawaii, United States...