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Wailua Golf Course
Highly rated by both Golf Digest and the Golf Channel, this coconut palm–dotted, largely seafront course in windy Wailua has hosted three U.S. amateur championships. Along the makai…
Prince Golf Course at Princeville
Here’s your chance to play one of the best courses in Hawaii. Reopened in 2012 after a $5-million renovation, this Robert Trent Jones, Jr.–designed devil of a course sits on 390 acres…
Hoopulapula Haraguchi Rice Mill & Taro Farm
Many of the green taro patches seen from the Hanalei Valley Overlook belong to the 30-acre Haraguchi Farm, where fifth-generation farmer Lyndsey Haraguchi-Nakayama, family members, and…
Na Aina Kai Botanical Gardens
Off the North Shore’s beaten path, this magical garden and hardwood plantation covers 240 acres, sprinkled with 70 life-size (some larger-than-life-size) whimsical bronze statues. It’s…
Makai Golf Club
This gem of a course—the first on the island to be designed by Robert Trent Jones, Jr.—has extra luster now that the nearby Prince Course has gone private. It’s already gained favor…
Kiahuna Golf Club
This par-70, 6,353-yard course designed by Robert Trent Jones, Jr., is a veritable wildlife sanctuary, where black-crowned night herons, Hawaiian stilts, and moorhens fish along…
Kukuiolono Golf Course
Although not on a resort, this 9-hole hilltop course has unbeatable views to match an unbeatable price: $9 for all day, plus $9 for an optional cart. The course is part of woodsy…
Poipu Bay Golf Course
This 7,123-yard, par-72 course with a links-style layout was, for years, the home of the PGA Grand Slam of Golf. Designed by Robert Trent Jones, Jr., the challenging course features…
CJM Country Stables
A trail ride through the rugged Mahaulepu region, passing through former plantation fields and natural landscape to the untrammeled sandy beaches under the shadow of Haupu Ridge, may…
Princeville Ranch Adventures
There’s no nose-to-tail riding at this working North Shore ranch, owned by descendants of the area’s first missionaries. Instead, horses amble across wide-open pastures with mountain…
Silver Falls Ranch Stables
The wide falls here may not be as impressive as the taller ones on Princeville Ranch, but the swimming hole is equally refreshing and the scenery just as stimulating. The 300-acre…
Anahola Beach
Anahola is part of the Hawaiian Home Lands federal program, meaning that much of the land here is reserved for lease by Native Hawaiians; you’ll pass their modest homes on the road to…
Kalapaki Beach
This quarter-mile-long swath of golden sand may seem like a private beach, given all the lounge chairs on its border with the Kauai Marriott Resort, which towers behind. But there’s…
Kealia Beach
Only very experienced surfers and bodyboarders should try their skill on the usually powerful waves here, but everyone else can enjoy the show from the broad golden sand, a picnic…
Lydgate Beach
Part of the family oasis of 58-acre Lydgate Park ★ on the south side of the Wailua River mouth, Lydgate Beach has two rock-walled ponds that create the safest swimming and best…
Anini Beach
Anini is the safest beach on Kauai for swimming and windsurfing, thanks to one of the longest, widest fringing reefs on the island, among the very largest in all of Hawaii. With…
Hanalei Beach
Easily one of the most majestic settings in Hawaii, and unbelievably just a few blocks from the main road, Hanalei Beach is a gorgeous half-moon of golden-white sand, 2 miles long and…
Kauapea Beach
Not exactly secret, but still wonderfully secluded, this long, broad stretch of light sand below forested bluffs lies snugly between rocky points, with only a few cliff-top homes and…
Kee Beach
The road ends here at this iconic tropical beach, hugged by swaying palms and sheltering ironwoods, its pale dunes sloping into a cozy lagoon brimming with a kaleidoscope of reef fish.…
Lumahai Beach
Between lush tropical jungle of pandanus and ironwood trees and the brilliant blue ocean lie two crescents of inviting golden-sand beach, separated by a rocky outcropping. Here is…
Makua (Tunnels) Beach & Haena Beach
Makua Beach earned the nickname of “Tunnels” from the labyrinth of lava tubes that wind through its inner and outer reef, making this Kauai’s premiere snorkeling and diving site…
Mahaulepu Beaches
Not far from the well-groomed resorts of Poipu is a magical place to leave the crowds—and maybe the last few centuries—behind. To reach the three different beaches of Mahaulepu, framed…
Poipu Beach
A perennial “best beach” winner, the long swath of Poipu is actually two beaches in one, divided by a tombolo, or sandbar point. On the left, a lava-rock jetty protects a sandy-bottom…
Keoneloa (Shipwrecks) Beach
Makawehi Point, a lithified sand dune, juts out from the eastern end of this beach, whose Hawaiian name means “the long sand.” Harrison Ford and Anne Heche jumped off Makawehi in Six…
Salt Pond Beach
You’ll see Hawaii’s only salt ponds still in production across from Salt Pond Beach, just outside Hanapepe. Generations of Hawaiians have carefully tended the beds in which the sun…