Yet if you've long admired Niihau from afar -- squinting into the horizon from Kauai's... Eavesdropping at the edges of Niihau SF Gate Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo ...

The family began selling half-day helicopter tours to Niihau to fund the chopper itself, which is used primarily for emergency evacuation of Niihau residents. Niihau Helicopters Inc. offers ...

Niihau Helicopters has been offering half-day trips since 1987. It’s just that few people seem to know about them. When Susan Tanzman, the owner of Martin’s Travel & Tours in Los Angeles and a ...

Village elders handle most day-to-day affairs. The only way to reach Niihau legally is by taking one of the half-day helicopter tours or daylong hunting safaris operated by the Robinsons to offset ...

But for $185 Niihau Helicopters will ferry you from Kauai to some of the most inhospitable land in the state. These flight tours are offered two or three times a week. On my flight, one of the ...

The only tourists allowed on Niihau, 18 miles across a rough ocean channel from Kauai, are those few who join an owner-controlled half-day helicopter tour or a hunting safari day trip (for feral ...

Niihau Helicopters has been offering half-day trips since 1987. It's just that few people seem to know about them. When Susan Tanzman, the owner of Martin's Travel & Tours in Los Angeles and a ...

But there is a way to visit Niihau. Several years ago, the Robinsons started offering outsiders a rare glimpse of this extraordinary place, running helicopter tours from the western shore of Kauai.

whose main purpose is the emergency evacuation of Niihau residents. The tours help underwrite the cost of the chopper. As we scanned the heavens, clouds skittered across the blue. The helicopter ...

whose main purpose is the emergency evacuation of Niihau residents. The tours help underwrite the cost of the chopper. As we scanned the heavens, clouds skittered across the blue. The helicopter ...

Village elders handle most day-to-day affairs. The only way to reach Niihau legally is by taking one of the half-day helicopter tours or daylong hunting safaris operated by the Robinsons to offset ...