Big Island · North Kohala

Mahukona Beach Park

Māhukona

Mahukona Beach Park
Photo: DrBjorn · CC BY-SA 2.0

Mahukona Beach Park preserves the abandoned Mahukona Harbor, the principal sugar-loading port for the North Kohala plantations from the 1880s through the early…

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How to visit

There is no sandy beach. Water entry is from the concrete dock; if you go in, bring a ladder, because that is how you get back out. The underwater debris field — the SS Kauai's engine and propeller, the rail equipment, the cables — is part of an active archaeological site; do not collect, do not move. The dock itself is the historic loading wharf; do not jump from it onto people swimming below. The whole area is a working ghost-town landscape and the visible warehouses and concrete pads off the road are private.

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