Beaches of Big Island & All-inclusive beach resorts of Hawaii

Unique is the best word to describe the beaches and all-inclusive beach resorts of the Big Island of Hawaii. Where else can be found black sand, white sand and green sand beaches all on one island?

A beach guide of the Big Island should include:

Spencer Beach Park
A large flat pocket of white sand with a very gentle underwater slope. It's popular for families with little children. You can snorkel and swim here under favorable conditions.

Mauna Kea Beach
This beach is a long crescent of white sand, with a few all-inclusive beach resorts in surroundings. It offers excellent swimming and snorkeling. Green sea turtles are common visitors here.

Hapuna Beach State Recreation Area
It's a 62 acre beach park with swimming, bodysurfing and boogie boarding facilities. Here are rip currents and pounding shore breaks during periods of high surf.
Amenities: pavilion, parking, restrooms, showers, picnic tables, lifeguards, food concession, camping.

Holoholokai Beach Park
It's a crescent beach comprised mainly of pebbles and cobblestones with several sandy pockets, settled far away by the well developed all-inclusive resorts of the island. It offers good waves for surfing and it's a great place for snorkeling and scuba diving. Allow access to the Puako Petroglyph Preserve.
Amenities: parking, restrooms, showers.

Lapakahi Marine Life Conservation District
On this beach you'll find a remarkable diversity of fish species but there are strong long shore currents. High surf occurs during winter months.
Amenities: parking, restrooms.

Waialea Bay Marine Life Conservation District
It's one of the island's most beautiful white sand beaches. Here are conditions for excellent swimming, snorkeling, scuba diving and windsurfing.

Mauna Lani Beach
Here tourists can swim and snorkel in the placid waters of Nanuko Inlet. It's also site for productive fishponds, active examples of ancient Hawaiian aquaculture.
Amenities: parking, restrooms, showers.

Kukio Beach
A ribbon of white sand and volcanic rock wich offers hazardous swimming. Still, this beach allow good surfing and bodysurfing during winter. It has paved trails and walkways.
Amenities: parking, restrooms, showers, picnic tables.

Makalawena Beach
It's a shoreline consisting of several coves and inlets united by a magnificent long sand beach. In surroundings can be found a few good all-inclusive beach resorts. It's a popular swimming, snorkeling, boogie boarding, and scuba place, noted also for octopus and shells. It's home for Opaeula Pond, a water bird sanctuary.

Mahaiula Beach
This beach is an idyllic crescent of white sand. Offers excellent swimming, boogie boarding and snorkeling during summer. It's site of underwater tunnels, caves and a sunken ship. Also, it is a great surfing place during winter.
Amenities: picnic tables.

Honokohau Beach
A long stretch of salt and pepper sand along Honokohau Bay. Allow good snorkeling and swimming and it's site of the Queen's Bath, a cool, spring-fed pool.
Amenities: parking.

Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park
It's a 1160 acre park with a high cultural significance because it's site of an ancient settlement. Here can be found fishponds, house platforms, petroglyphs, stone slide, and religious temple. It's a good place for hiking, picnicking, fishing, snorkeling, swimming, bird watching, and surfing.

White Sands Beach Park
It's the most popular bodysurfing and body boarding beach in North Kona and it's also site of a Bodysurfing Championship. Not at very long distance are settled a few all-inclusive beach resorts. Also, this beach offers good snorkeling.
Amenities: restrooms, showers, parking, picnic tables, lifeguards.

Kahaluu Beach Park
It's a large white sand beach and it's a popular swimming and snorkeling site. This beach is also home for sea turtles and dolphins.
Amenities: parking, restrooms, showers, picnic tables, lifeguards.

Keauhou Bay Beach Park
It's a small beach park, site of a boat harbor. Offers excellent swimming and snorkeling. High surf causes closures of bay entrances during winter months.
Amenities: parking, restrooms, showers, picnic tables.

Napoopoo Beach Park
Here is located the Hikiau Heiau State Monument of Captain James Cook. It's a small rocky 6-acre park that attracts many sunbathers and swimmers.
Amenities: parking, restrooms, showers, picnic pavilion, basketball court.

Puuhonua O Honaunau National Historical Park
It's one of the best snorkeling and shore scuba diving areas on the island. Also, this beach allow excellent whale watching in the winter.
Amenities: parking, restrooms, showers, picnic tables.

Mahana-green sand-Beach
It's the most famous green beach of the Kau district and it's frequented during calm periods by swimmers, bodysurfers, and divers.

Punaluu Beach Park
This beach is one of the most famous black sand beaches on the island of Hawaii and it's situated at the head of a small bay. The beach is home to many endangered green sea turtles.
Amenities: parking, restrooms, showers, picnic tables, pavilion, camping.

Kehena Beach
It's a long black sand beach. Although nudism is illegal in Hawaii, the seclusion attracts nudists.

Isaac Hale Beach Park
It's a small two-acre park with boat ramp. Popular activities in the bay include fishing and surfing. It's site of Pohoiki warm springs.
Amenities: pavilion, restrooms, showers, picnic tables, camping.

Mackenzie State Recreation Area
This area is a 13-acre beach park well known as a place of weird creatures which appear after dark known as the "night marchers" - processions of the spirits of ancient Hawaiians.
Amenities: pavilion, restrooms, showers, picnic tables, camping.

Ahalanui County Park
It's site of a spring and of a pool-volcanically heated to a toasty 90 degrees.
Amenities: lifeguards.

Waiopae Tide pools Marine Life Conservation District
It's home for abundant coral and fish life; the tide pools are easily accessible to snorkel.
Amenities: parking.

Richardson Ocean Park
It's a small pocket of black sand beach and is the most popular snorkeling area of Hilo. Offers good shore diving and snorkeling, the dolphins frequent the area. It's site for the Richardson Ocean Center, an outdoor recreation and interpretive center.
Amenities: parking, restrooms, showers, picnic tables, lifeguards.

Onekahakaha Beach Park
It's a sandy cove of white sand, separated from the open sea by a heavy boulder breakwater. Allow free swimming for little children.
Amenities: parking, picnic pavilions, restrooms, showers, lifeguards.

Reed's Bay Park
It's a picturesque inlet. The swimmers frequent the Ice Pond, where icy-cold spring waters constantly rise into the salt water.
Amenities: parking.

Honolii Beach Park
It's the premier surfing and boogie boarding area on this side of the island, not far away by a few all-inclusive beach resorts. The surfing breaks provide some of the most consistently ride able waves. It's not recommended for recreational swimming.
Amenities: restrooms, showers, picnic tables, lifeguards.