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

The Kalalau Trail is closed until at least Thursday because of a norovirus outbreak, according to state officials. At least 50 people fell ill.

Four people tested positive for the virus, which causes a highly contagious gastrointestinal illness, officials said. The trail could remain closed until at least Sept. 19.

A portion of the Kalalau Trail on the Hawaiian island of Kauai closed this week after 24 hikers fell ill with a highly contagious norovirus, officials said. The trail beyond the Hanakapiai Valley was closed starting Tuesday and will remain cordoned off for at least seven days, according to the Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources .

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.