About Honokaa

Located on the Hamakua Coast around 40 miles north of Hilo on the Big Island, Honokaa is in the northeastern part of the island and is a great spot for jumping off into the nearby Kohala Coast area. The Honokaa community, which is a close-knit one, goes back to the days of the sugar plantation of more than a century ago. Sugar was the biggest export of Honokaa, but now the plantations are a thing of the past. The developers have forgotten Honokaa, and the residents of Honokaa and the neighboring areas maintain their unique lifestyle.

The Honokaa Farmers Market that meets every Saturday before the Botelho Building features great food items by local farmers at great prices. Fresh baked pastries, bananas, papayas, and bushel after bushel of garden vegetables are available for wonderfully low prices. As is much of Hawaii, Honokaa is beautiful and a genuine visual treat. You absolutely must not miss the stunningly beautiful Waipio Valley near Honokaa town at the end of Route 24. It's a historic location, which was once the center of Hawaiian life. Only a handful of taro farmers occupy the valley today, and they cultivate their crops year round. But the sheer beauty of the valley, which you can witness from lookout points along Highway 24 outside Honokaa, is what will interest you. Like Hilo, Honokaa is a little tourist attraction, but undoubtedly a beautiful one and a destination that provides you insight into traditional Hawaiian life.     

Honokaa Travelers Journal

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