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WARNING: The road leading to Polihale State Park is an unimproved dirt road that may flood during rains and become impassable. Other areas have deep sand. Four-wheel drive vehicles are required to access the park. Rental car companies prohibit use of their vehicles on the Polihale State Park access road.
End of 5-mile long dirt road from Mana Village, off Kaumuali'i Highway (Highway 50).
Easily one of the most beautiful beaches in the world. If you are planning to visit, I highly recommend renting a jeep or other 4wd car as the road in is not paved and is very bumpy- and has huge mud ditches when it rains.
The beach itself is very wide white sand that overlooks the cliffs of the Napali Coast.
There are no food options here and shade is limited, so pack a lunch and rent chairs or umbrellas from your hotel. Some people will just back up their jeep to the beach and sit on the tailgate and hang out.
There are restrooms scattered about the park but there are no lifeguards.
The day we visited, the water was pretty calm.
The path to get to the beach is a long bumpy dirt road (4WD highly recommended). The payoff at the end is an incredibly beautiful beach the ends at the beginning of the Na Pali coastline. Note this is not a good beach for swimming- the ocean is rough and unpredictable here.
Fun drive to get to the beach. Took a left at the tree and went towards the Queens pond based on the side. Took about 20-25min but was much quicker going back as we were less cautious. VERY windy day. Sand was whipping around quite a bit but was an incredible view nonetheless.
Incredibly beautiful beach, soft sand and picture perfect opportunities.
There are some facilities (washrooms, shower) but nothing fancy.
Enjoyed seeing the parade of catamarans taking tourists to Napali tours around 3:30pm.
The road is in poor condition but I drove slowly with my 2 wheel drive sedan (5 miles per hour). Unless you rented with Turo, they won't know you took the car there. Seeing the road condition, I can understand why.
Water conditions were quite rough, I would not recommend swimming here. I went in knee deep and waves rolled me over.
I think that despite the poor condition of the access road, the beach is a must see in Kauai.
Gorgeous beach with lovely green hills in the background. The trick is getting there. You ideally want something with high clearance and 4WD because it is a heavily potholed road, and if it's been raining a lot, there are many places with slick red mud. But even without high clearance, if you take it very slow, you can probably make it down the long road.
Once we got to the park sign, there was a road that went to the left for Queen's pool but we continued straight on and ended up at the restroom and shower facilities, and just over the hill from the beach.
The surf is way too rough to get in the water. But because this is so remote, you will almost have the beach to yourself, and it's a very peaceful place to watch the sunset or take a stroll.
