Kumukea Beach — Attraction in Hawaii

A lovely quiet beach that is indeed public, but you have to go through the resort gates and state that you want to visit the beach. There is parking for visitors but it is limited, and I would not be surprised if the quantity of visitors is controlled to avoid swarming the beach with (let’s face it) loud, trash-depositing tourists that harm the local fauna/trespass onto resort property. The beach itself is very nice, and probably one of the cleanest and quietest beaches on the island.

The beach ranges from sandy to rocky, with areas of smaller waves to areas that only experienced swimmers/surfers should visit. Because this long stretch of beach doesn’t get lots of people, there’s a lot of wildlife to see; lots of tide pools that house interesting shellfish, crabs, and fish. Some of the pools are large enough that you might see bigger fish without needing to go for a swim. Overall I would say this is a beach for strolling along the coastline, dipping your feet in shallow waters, and looking at wee critters that live between the rocks. It’s not really for snorkeling or swimming (we only saw a couple of surfers on the water during our...

All beaches in Hawaii are PUBLIC ACCESS NOT PRIVATE. I'm not sure how this resort is able to get away with limiting RESIDENT and LOCAL access to this beach by giving PRIMARY access to tourists. That's not right or lawful. It's a disgrace that the resort has taken up all the once existing areas to park while locals have to park a quarter mile away due to "limited parking" to get to the beach that DOES NOT BELONG...

Beach is inacceable to non-guest members of the "Posh" resort... how is it that all of the resorts have managed to take private ownership of all of the best beaches on this island and provide no access, or beach parking quarter of a mile away from the beach?!?!?! No one should have private control or access to any beaches! Public Beach Access...