Hawaii
ʻAkaka Falls
Hawaii
443ft tall
≈ 135 m
≈ 135 m
ʻAkaka Falls is a named waterfall in Hawaii — a substantial cascade dropping 443 feet. Full visit details below.
- State
- Hawaii
- Height
- 443 ft (135 m)
- Coordinates
- 19.8532°, -155.1561°
- County
- Hawaii
From Wikipedia: ʻAkaka Falls State Park is a state park on Hawaiʻi Island, in the U.S. state of Hawaii. The park is about 11 miles (18 km) north of Hilo, west of Honomū off the Hawaii Belt Road at the end of Hawaii Route 220. It includes its namesake ʻAkaka Falls, a 442-foot (135 m) tall waterfall. ʻAkaka is named after Chief 'Akaka-o-ka-nī'au-oi'o-i-ka-wao, grandson of Kūlanikapele and Kīakalohia. 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, a 300-foot (91 m) tall waterfall, and several smaller cascades. Excerpt from the Wikipedia article on ʻAkaka Falls State Park, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Visiting ʻAkaka Falls
The exact location is at 19.8532°, -155.1561° — open in Google Maps for driving directions from your location.
Before you go: check current conditions with the appropriate land manager — state parks department, U.S. Forest Service ranger district, or National Park Service unit. Trail access, parking, water levels, and seasonal closures all vary. Several waterfalls in our database are seasonal and may run dry between mid-summer and the next rainy season.
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Other waterfalls within 30 miles
Sources
Location and tag data for ʻAkaka Falls comes from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL license) ; the Wikipedia article linked above provides additional history. We do not modify the underlying data — this page presents what's already publicly recorded. To suggest corrections, see our methodology page or contact us.