Kamehameha Highway

Kamehameha Highway
Map
Kamehameha Highway highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by HDOT
Component
highways
Major junctions
Loop around O‘ahu Central Valley
From H-1 / Route 92 in Honolulu
Major intersections
To Route 61 in Maunawili
Location
CountryUnited States
StateHawaii
Highway system
Route 98 Route 130
Route 78 Route 83
Route 80 Route 92
Route 750 Route 901

Kamehameha Highway is one of the main highways serving suburban and rural O‘ahu in the U.S. state of Hawai‘i. Informally known as Kam Highway, it begins at Nimitz Highway near Pearl Harbor and Hickam Air Force Base in Honolulu, serves the island's older western suburbs, and turns north across the O‘ahu Central Valley to the North Shore. At the North Shore, Kamehameha Highway heads northeast around the northern tip of O‘ahu, then southeast to and just beyond Kāne‘ohe Bay on the windward coast. The road was named after King Kamehameha I.[1]

A short detached segment of the Kamehameha Highway exists for a few blocks in the Honolulu neighborhood of Kalihi. This segment runs as a short extension of Dillingham Boulevard from Pu‘uhale Road (near the O‘ahu Community Correctional Center) to exit 18B on Interstate H-1. This section was contiguous with the rest of the highway before the construction of the H-1 viaduct.

  1. ^ Simek, Kelly (April 5, 2018). "Aloha Authentic: Kamehameha Highway by Kamaka Pili". KHON. No. Aloha Authentic. Retrieved 26 May 2018.