Kipu In The News!

From the Garden Island: Orange is not only the color of Kipu Ranch, said Cheyanne Beach of the Hawaii Foodbank Kauai Branch, far right. Orange is also the color for hunger, as she and Wes Perreira, Hawaii Foodbank Kauai Branch manager, second from right, accept a check for $2,700 from the Kipu Ranch Adventures ohana,…

From USA Today The top 10 winners in the category Best Tour Company in Hawaii are as follows: Blue Hawaiian Helicopters Hawaii Forest & Trail Kipu Ranch Adventures Alii Nui Kailani Tours Hawaii Trilogy Excursions Safari Helicopters Valley Isle Excursions Ocean Sports Blue Dolphin Charters Read More

When visiting our lush and stunning island of Kauai—nicknamed “The Garden Isle”—it can be difficult to decide the best way to take in all the beauty that the island has to offer. You can spend long days lounging on pristine beaches or take a magical hike through the forest, but for a real adventure that…

By Cat Frazier Special to The Garden Island | Tuesday, August 14, 2018, 12:05 a.m. Kipu Ranch Adventures recently started offering something unexpected to Kauai visitors: a heart. More specifically, three hearts, on the front and sides of a new, pristinely-wrapped luxury UTV available to book for raising funds benefiting Shriners Hospital in Honolulu. The…

Winter 2018 by Angela Saurine for Family Travel Magazine With 11 of the world’s 13 climate zones and some of the most dramatic scenery imaginable, it’s no wonder filmmakers flock to Hawai’i.

Friday June 1st 2018 by Pascale Hughes Pascale Hughes is a reporter and feature writer. Contact pascale.hughes@inews.co.uk. As special correspondent for Sacramento Union newspaper, Mark Twain had a go at surfing when he visited Hawaii in 1866. He paddled out on his wooden board, waited “for a particularly prodigious billow to come along,” then prodigiously…

By JESSICA YADEGARAN | jyadegaran@bayareanewsgroup.com | Bay Area News Group PUBLISHED: March 24, 2018 at 9:00 am | UPDATED: March 27, 2018 at 1:40 pm KAUAI — I’m deep in the jungle, wearing protective goggles, a safety helmet and rust-orange bandana. The look is somewhere between motocross and cowboy — not my finest fashion moment. But I’m about to go 4×4 off-roading through…

Combining UTVs and Mountain Bikes to Explore Kauai By UTV Driver April 17, 2017 On our recent excursion to Lihue, Hawaii, we hooked up with Kipu Adventure Tours to test their new Kawasaki Mule Adventure machine that was hand-built by Jimmy’s 4×4. Along with a wide range of tours available, KipuTours.com has a growing collection of Kawasaki UTVs in their…

By Jenna Carpenter – The Garden Island | Sunday, December 11, 2016, 12:05 a.m. In his 13 years working as a tour guide for Kipu Ranch Adventures, Troy Shanks estimates he has met 50,000 people. “I probably have a place to stay in every state in the United States and about 10 different countries,” he…

By Jenna Carpenter – The Garden Island | Wednesday, October 19, 2016, 2 a.m. KIPU — When Antone Teves heard about a fire that destroyed a Lawai home of a former Kipu Ranch tour guide, he knew he had to do something. “I thought what it would be like to be in that position,” he…

Marty Wentzel | Contributing Editor, Hawaii In early 2016, Kipu Ranch Adventures (KRA) switched its fleet from all-terrain vehicles (ATVs) to utility terrain vehicles (UTVs). The Kauai company wanted to change its focus from heart-thumping exploits to more relaxing spins around a 3,000-acre working cattle ranch. It was a smart move on KRA’s part. Not…

July 2013 by Colleen Oakes for Girls Getaway After a year of slaving away at our respective positions, us working types are entitled to a few weeks of downtime. Read More