(07-26-2023, 12:33 PM)Obie Wrote: folks living in the adjacent Hawaiian Homelands aren't so the road can't reach Hilo.
Although the Highways Act of 1892 guarantees access that supersedes any other claims, the Hilo/Puna Trail doesn't pass through Hawaiian Homelands. Of course there are trails that do, but the long established Trail does not follow the coast all the way around Keaukaha, or pass through other Homestead lands as mapped here.
Of course there are questions, lots of them, that could limit the right-of-way they can not nullify it, and regardless of land use today the right remains. As such, as I noted in an earlier post, the mountains of precedent would make any claim at nullifying the right-of-way ultimately fail.