Fall asleep to the sound of waves and wake up on the sand.
Fall asleep to the sound of waves and wake up on the sand.
4 beaches found
Easy AccessThe Kauai east-shore family beach on Hawaiian Home Lands, where locals walk from the homestead community to a half-mile bay protected by an offshore reef. Calm at the east end, dangerous at the river mouth, and quiet on most weekday mornings.
Easy AccessThe Big Island county park most surfers call Pine Trees, with multiple peaks along a lava-and-sand coastline north of Kona. Surf, tide pools, and camping in one gated park with restrooms, BBQ pavilions, and a 5:30am-9pm gate. Kona's most accessible local surf beach.
Easy AccessThe Kauai west-shore family beach named for the active Hawaiian salt-making ponds beside it. A reef-protected crescent that swims like a pool, lifeguards on duty, and one of the few beaches in the state where Hawaiian sea salt is still harvested by hand.
Easy AccessThe Kauai west-shore beach where Captain Cook first stepped foot on the Hawaiian Islands in 1778. Black sand from the red-dirt river runoff, a historic state pier, plantation cottages behind the dunes, and a swim that almost nobody does because the water is genuinely too murky to enjoy.