Big Island · Hāmākua

Laupāhoehoe Point Beach Park

Laupāhoehoe

Laupāhoehoe Point Beach Park
Photo: Brocken Inaglory · CC BY-SA 3.0

Laupāhoehoe Point ("smooth lava leaf") is a flat tongue of pāhoehoe lava jutting into the ocean about 25 miles north of Hilo…

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How to visit

This is the site of the deadliest school-day moment in Hawaiian history. The memorial on the knoll above the bay is for twenty-four people, most of them children. Approach it the way you would approach any memorial — quietly, without staging photographs, without leaving anything on the granite. The road down from the highway is steep and narrow; do not bring an RV. Camping at the park is by county permit only.

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