Kauai played a starring role in The Descendants, Jurassic Park, Avatar and Hook (celebrating its 25th birthday this year).

Kauai's privately owned Olokele Canyon, seen in "Jurassic Park," is inaccessible except on Safari Helicopters' 90-minute Kauai Refuge Eco Tour ($274), which lands near a nature preserve managed by ...

If you’ve ever visited Kauaʻi and thought, this view looks like it was plucked straight from the big screen, it probably was.

We did not visit Kualoa Ranch, but have hiked and canoed through a property on Kauai where a big chunk of the original Jurassic Park was filmed. Lots of peacocks there.