Kekaha Beach Park

Great beach for families and kids! Lots of broken glass & trashed portable toilets. Right off the road, you can enjoy the peaceful sounds of passerbys. Very unimpressed. With so many beaches to chose from on the island I would pass this one.

Nice and quite beach past Waimea. We were planning to drive all the way south west but the dirt road at the end of the road make us turn and we ended up here. It was lunch time and we had packed food and drinks. We got an empty gazebo structure and we parked out there and had lunch. In the distance you can see the small boats /​cruises going north to Napali coast. The beach itself is less crowded and really nice. The trash cans and the porta potty are filthy as hell.

Its a beach right off the highway, like most of the beaches in SoCal. If you have a 4×4 you can drive right onto the sand and tailgate. If you don’t have one, don’t do it (unless you wanna get stuck on the sand). A local told me its legal to drink alcohol in public in Hawaii. FALSE. It’s illegal to drink in public in Hawaii, it’s just not heavily enforced. Just sayin’.
I’ve never swam here, the waters are rough. The sunset is beautiful.

My favorite west-​side beach to surf at. Medium to large swells (depending on the season) and great sunsets.
It’s pretty much all locals and everyone seems to know one another.
It’s on the «dry» side of the island and there aren’t many touristy stores/​restos to hit up (which we all love). I think the nearest spot to eat is Shrimp Station.
This is a chill spot… no scraps. Just aloha.

A lot of people come here to watch the sunset, but I don’t care about sunsets.
When the swell is right, Kekaha can be on point. Yes, its rough and the current is very strong, but the waves are worth it. Would I advocate a tourist surfing here? No. I had to help someone out on a foam top — how dumb was that person? Pretty stupid.
Anyway, there are a few good surfing spots here. You just need to be aware of your surroundings.

Kekaha Beach is definitely hit or miss.
Since we live in Kekaha and have unusual schedules due to work, this is a pretty common stop for us to get a few easy hours of sun and sand. There is a life guard on duty and the warning flags are always read. There are typically a few fishermen casting along the shore, but not usually where a lot of people are. It isn’t common for a lot of people to be in the water because it is so rough. Generally, it gets pretty deep pretty quickly, but that really just depends on the recent weather and the tides. The last time we where there, it was only 4 — 5′ for quite a ways out.
Once, after a lot of storms and high surf advisories, we stumbled upon a somewhat secret gathering of what seemed like half of the island to watch all of the people surfing a few miles west of the main beach. Professionals had apparently flown in from all over to surf in these perfect conditions. They were even doing toe-​ins — when the surfers are pulled around by jet skis and are sometimes literally toed on top of a forming wave, which is extremely rare at this beach.
There is a tendency for large waves to come unexpectedly and knock you over. That is why very few people aside from surfers and other boarders actually get in the water. The worst thing about this beach is that it is very «dirty» in the sense that there are tons of sticks and logs that wash up on shore here. Also, the water is almost always brown from the constantly churning sand.
This is a pretty good beach to go and watch some local surfers or take a walk along the seemingly unending coast, but the only time swimming can be recommended is if there are a good number of people already in the water.
Because of the size of the shoulder along the rocky shoreline, this beach is the perfect spot to pull over and watch the sun set. You can also generally see the «forbidden island» of Ni’iahu which lies 17 miles southwest of Kauai.