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Akaka Falls State Park

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Akaka Falls State Park
Akaka Falls State Park
Akaka Falls State Park
Akaka Falls State Park
Akaka Falls State Park
Akaka Falls State Park
Akaka Falls State Park
Akaka Falls State Park
Akaka Falls State Park
Akaka Falls State Park
Akaka Falls State Park
Akaka Falls State Park
Akaka Falls State Park
Akaka Falls State Park
Akaka Falls State Park
Akaka Falls State Park
Akaka Falls State Park
Akaka Falls State Park
Akaka Falls State Park
Akaka Falls State Park
Akaka Falls State Park
Akaka Falls State Park
Akaka Falls State Park
Akaka Falls State Park
Akaka Falls State Park
Phone:
+1 808-961-9540

Hours:
Sunday8:30am - 6pm
Monday8:30am - 6pm
Tuesday8:30am - 6pm
Wednesday8:30am - 6pm
Thursday8:30am - 6pm
Friday8:30am - 6pm
Saturday8:30am - 6pm


ʻAkaka Falls State Park is a state park on Hawaiʻi Island, in the U.S. state of Hawaii. The park is about 11 miles north from Hilo, west of Honomū off the Hawaii Belt Road at the end of Hawaii Route 220. It includes ʻAkaka Falls, a 442 feet tall waterfall. ʻAkaka in the Hawaiian language means A rent, split, chink, separation; to crack, split, scale. The accessible portion of the park lies high on the right shoulder of the deep gorge into which the waterfall plunges, and the falls can be viewed from several points along a loop trail through the park. Also visible from this trail is Kahūnā Falls. Local folklore describes a stone here called Pōhaku a Pele that, when struck by a branch of lehua ʻāpane, will call the sky to darken and rain to fall. Lehua ʻāpane or ʻōhiʻa ʻāpane is an ʻōhiʻa tree with dark red blossoms. ʻAkaka Falls is located on Kolekole Stream. A large stone in the stream about 70 feet upstream of the falls is called Pōhaku o Kāloa.
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