Which Big Island Black Sand Beach
Punaluʻu, Kaimu, or Pohoiki. A chooser, not another beach clone. Papakōlea is green sand.
Beaches
Guides to white sand, black sand, and tide pools already on BigIsland.org.
Onekahakaha Beach Park
The Keaukaha post already told you this park existed. It called it the kid-friendly stop with a shallow, boulder-lined wading pool. It also promised “the picturesque Chalk’s Beach, which is featured in its own article.” That article was never written. I checked. This is the page. I am not going to invent a second, secret …
Richardson Ocean Park
Hilo’s good swimming is not a secret white-sand crescent. It is a string of county parks on the Keaukaha peninsula, down Kalanianaole, past the port, where the lava makes ponds instead of a postcard beach. This site already wrote Keaukaha, Carlsmith, and Kealoha. Those posts keep pointing farther down the same road and saying Richardson …
Kealoha Beach Park – Surfing, Snorkeling, Fishing and Sightseeing Along A Scenic Stretch of Protected Hilo Coastline
Kealoha Beach Park is an oceanfront green space a few miles east of downtown Hilo made up of tide pools and rocky inlets ideal for snorkelers and swimmers, with a formidable reef just offshore that creates rolling waves popular with local surfers and boogie boarders. The park fronts the seashore with a long diagonal strip …
Kapa’a Beach Park – Fishing, Diving, Camping and Whale-Watching At A Private, Isolated Coastal Forest Full of Raw Beauty
Kapa’a Beach Park’s rocky coastline and pockets of rugged campsites tucked into stands of native keawe trees are a far cry from the elegant, obsessively manicured and easy to navigate beach parks found farther south along the Big Island’s Kona Coast. It doesn’t boast long tracks of soft white sand, lines of beach chairs and …
Hapuna Beach – Big Island’s Largest White Sand Beach
An uninterrupted half-mile of fine white sand waits for Kona-side beachgoers at Hapuna Beach, a long stretch of pristine, sun-drenched shoreline and electric blue water sandwiched between rocky bluffs dotted with luxury hotels and parched, spindly trees along Big Island’s Kohala Coast. The beach is found within the much larger Hapuna Beach State Recreation Area, …
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Kaimu Black Sand Beach – A Short Hike Across 30-Year-Old Lavafield
Kaimu Black Sand Beach is a quarter-mile hike across a barren lava field of smooth, ropey-looking black rock, following a footpath paved with finely crushed red cinder stones, to the rocky shore of crashing waves and tumbling boulders of Kaimu Black Sand Beach. This is an isolated and stunningly beautiful stretch of coastline carpeted with …
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Kua Bay (Maniniowali) – White Sand at Kekaha Kai
Kua Bay is the name most people use for Maniniowali Beach, the white-sand cove at the north end of Kekaha Kai State Park. This site already calls it one of the most picturesque beaches on the Big Island: a large stretch of sand that plays the part of a tropical island oasis, close to Kona, …
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Spencer Beach Park – One of the Big Island’s best places to Picnic
The finely ground soft white sand of Spencer Beach Park delivers swimmers, snorkelers, kayakers and board-riders into the crystal-blue waters of the surrounding bay, which on a typical sunny North Kona afternoon is calm enough for small children to safely frolic. Spencer is one of the northernmost white sand beaches on the island, and a …
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Pohoiki Beach – The Black Rock Shores of Big Island’s Newest Beach
Few places on Big Island have been changed by its recent volcanic activity quite as much as Pohoiki Beach, which until a few years ago wasn’t a beach at all. What is today a long stretch of raw, isolated oceanfront land – a gently-sloping shoreline of smooth lava rocks mixed with finely pulverized black sand …
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