Allerton Garden

Allerton Garden, or Lāwaʻi-kai, is an eighty-acre botanical garden on Kauai’s south shore beside Lāwaʻi Bay and the Lāwaʻi Stream. Its landscape reflects an older history that includes a brief stay by Queen Emma of Hawaii and the valley’s later use by the McBryde family as a sugarcane plantation. The garden took shape after Robert Allerton and his adopted son, John Gregg Allerton, bought part of Queen Emma’s former plantation in 1938 and developed a carefully planned landscape blending Hawaiian plantings with tropical species from Asia and other Pacific islands, along with sculptures and built features. Later entrusted to the National Tropical Botanical Garden, it remains a noted visitor destination and filming location.

Kalaheo, Hawaii · United States