Beaches in Big Island Hawaii

Unique is the best word to describe beaches in Big Island of Hawaii! Actually, on which other island on the planet can be found a black-sand beach located near a white-sand or green-sand beach?

Beach Guide of the Big Island

Some of the best beaches included in any beach guide of the Big Island of Hawaii are:

Spencer Beach Park
A large flat of white-sand with a very gentle aquatic slope and as result it is very popular amongst families with little children. All tourists enjoy there great snorkeling and swimming.

Mauna Kea Beach
This beach is a long crescent of white-sand with a few beach resorts settled in surroundings, offering excellent swimming and snorkeling amenities. Green sea turtles are common visitors there!

Hapuna Beach State Recreation Area
It is a 62 acre beach park that allows excellent swimming and surfing.
Amenities: pavilion, parking, restrooms, showers, picnic tables, lifeguards, food concessions and camping.

Holoholokai Beach Park
It is a crescent-shaped beach, mainly covered by pebble and cobblestone dotted with several sandy pockets, located far away to the well developed tourist spots of the island. There are good waves for surfing and is a great spot for other vacation activities like snorkeling and scuba diving. Allows access to the Puako Petroglyph Preserve.
Amenities: parking, restrooms and showers.

Lapakahi Marine Life Conservation District
On this beach tourists find a remarkable diversity of fish species, but there are present strong shore currents.
Amenities: parking and restrooms.

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

Mauna Lani Beach
Tourists can enjoy swimming and snorkeling in the placid waters of Nanuko Inlet. It is also site for productive fishponds - active examples of the ancient Hawaiian aqua-culture.
Amenities: parking, restrooms and showers.

Kukio Beach
A mix of white-sand and volcanic rocks. Still, this beach allows good surfing during winter and features paved trails and walkways.
Amenities: parking, restrooms, showers and picnic tables.

Makalawena Beach
It is a shoreline consisting of several coves and inlets unified by a magnificent long sandy beach. In surroundings can be found a few good beach resorts & hotels and is popular for swimming, snorkeling and scuba diving. There is also located the Opaeula Pond, which is a water-bird sanctuary.

Mahaiula Beach
This beach is an idyllic spot of white-sand offering excellent swimming and snorkeling conditions during summer. There are located several underwater tunnels, caves and remains of a sunken ship. It is also a great surfing spot during winter.
Amenities: picnic tables.

Honokohau Beach
A long stretch of sand located along the Honokohau Bay. Allows good snorkeling and swimming and is site of the Queen's Bath - a cool natural pool with spring water.
Amenities: parking.

Kaloko-Honokohau National Historical Park
It is a 1160 acre park with a high cultural significance because houses an ancient settlement. There can be found fishponds, house platforms, petroglyphs, stone slides and an ancient temple. It's also a good vacation spot for hiking, picnic, fishing, snorkeling, swimming, bird watching and surfing.

White Sands Beach Park
It is the most popular surfing beach in North Kona, being also the site where takes place the "Surfing Championship". This beach is a good spot for snorkeling too.
Amenities: restrooms, showers, parking, picnic tables and lifeguards.

Kahaluu Beach Park
It's a large white-sand beach very popular for swimming and snorkeling, being also a very good place from where can be observed sea turtles and dolphins.
Amenities: parking, restrooms, showers, picnic tables and lifeguards.

Keauhou Bay Beach Park
It's a small beach park and site of a boat harbor offering excellent swimming and snorkeling amenities.
Amenities: parking, restrooms, showers and picnic tables.

Napoopoo Beach Park
There is located the Hikiau Heiau State Monument of Captain James Cook. In fact it's a small rocky park that attracts many people who like sun-bathing and swimming.
Amenities: parking, restrooms, showers, picnic pavilion and basketball court.

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

Mahana (Green Sand) Beach
It's the most popular green sand beach in the Kau district and is frequented by swimmers, surfers and divers.

Punaluu Beach Park
This beach is one of the most popular black-sand beaches in Hawaii, situated in a small bay. The beach is home to many endangered green sea turtles.
Amenities: parking, restrooms, showers, picnic tables, pavilion and camping.

Kehena Beach
It's a long black-sand beach. Although nudism is illegal in Hawaii, its seclusion attracts many fans of the nude way of life...

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

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

Ahalanui County Park
There is a spring and a natural pool that is volcanically heated up to 90 Celsius degrees!
Amenities: lifeguards.

Waiopae Tide pools Marine Life Conservation District
It's home to abundant coral formations and many fish species allowing therefore great snorkeling.
Amenities: parking.

Richardson Ocean Park
It is a small pocket of black-sand, being also the most popular snorkeling area in Hilo. Offers good shore diving & snorkeling conditions and sometimes dolphins frequenting the area. It's home to the Richardson Ocean Center - an outdoor recreational center.
Amenities: parking, restrooms, showers, picnic tables and lifeguards.

Onekahakaha Beach Park
It's a cove of white-sand and allows safe swimming for little children.
Amenities: parking, picnic pavilions, restrooms, showers and lifeguards.

Reed's Bay Park
It is a picturesque inlet. Many swimmers go to the Ice Pond, a site where icy-cold spring waters rise constantly into the salt water!
Amenities: parking.

Honolii Beach Park
It's a top surfing spot of the island. The surfing breaks provide some of the best waves in Hawaii! Not recommended for recreational swimming!
Amenities: restrooms, showers, picnic tables and lifeguards.

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