Top Choice Beach in North Kona Coast
Makalawena Beach
Top Choice Beach in North Kona Coast
Kua Bay
This crescent-shaped white-sand beach is fronted by sparkling turquoise waters that offer first-rate swimming and bodyboarding, and good snorkeling on the north side of the bay (by the large rock outcroppings) when …
Top Choice Beach in North Kona Coast
Honokohau Beach
At this beautiful hook-shaped beach with a mix of black lava, white coral and wave-tossed shells, the water is usually too cloudy for snorkeling, but just standing on shore you'll see honu (green sea turtles). You m…
Top Choice Beach in Kaʻupulehu
Kikaua Beach
Though obviously artificial (a thin layer of sand laid over concrete is hard on the feet), Kikaua Beach is also effortlessly beautiful. Palm trees do the whole sway in the breeze thing, the sand is white, and the co…
Park in North Kona Coast
Kiholo State Park Reserve
With its pristine turquoise waters and shoreline fringed with coconut trees, Kiholo Bay is yet another off-the-beaten-track Big Island beauty. It’s more of a series of beaches than one contiguous stretch of sand, an…
Park in North Kona Coast
Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park
Park in North Kona Coast
Kekaha Kai State Park
The gorgeous beaches of Kekaha Kai are all the more memorable for being tucked on the far side of a vast desert of unforgiving black lava. This 1600-acre park has four beaches, only one of which has paved access. Th…
Notable Building in Keahole Point
Hawaii Ocean Science & Technology Park
That funny-looking building with the gigantic solar panels is the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority (NELHA). This 'zero-net energy facility' was voted one of the USA's 10 greenest buildings in 2007. Lear…
Beach in North Kona Coast
Mahaiʻula Beach
Kekaha Kai (Kona Coast) State Park's largest beach has salt-and-pepper sand, rocky tide pools, shaded picnic tables and pit toilets. Swimming usually isn't good, but during big winter swells, there's plenty of surfi…
Forest in North Kona Coast
Kona Cloud Forest Sanctuary
Above 3000ft on the slopes of Mt Hualalai, the Kaloko Mauka subdivision is the home of this spectacular 70-acre sanctuary. It's not just any forest – a cloud forest is a moist woodland where mist and fog are constan…