My guts exploding all over that land was not what I wanted to do at all,” one hiker said after she caught norovirus while camping on the island of Kauai in Hawaii and needed to be helicoptered to the

Officials described the outbreak was an "unprecedented situation," and said the park trail remain closed while "preventative measures" were undertaken.

If hiking one of Hawaii’s most beautiful trails is on your bucket list, it will have to wait a little bit longer. A popular 11-mile hiking trail, the Kalalau Trail, has been temporarily closed after a growing number of hikers have been infected with a highly contagious strand of norovirus.