Lumahai Beach - Beach - Chris and Erin 's Wedding Map - Please visit our Wedding Map to locate accommodation, ceremony & reception location, island activities, restaurants, nearby beaches, etc. You can use this site to map out and print directions. Click on each location tag to find the address, phone number, photos and general information. If you are renting a home, email us the address so we can tag it on our map. This will enable you to estimate your travel time from the airport, to the ceremony & reception and also for other guests to locate you.

Lumahai Beach

Beach

Frommer's Review
One of the most photographed beaches in Kauai (it's where Mitzi Gaynor "washed that man right out of her hair" in South Pacific, filmed here in 1957), this is a great beach for a picnic or for sitting and watching the waves. It is not a good swimming beach. The scenic beach is almost a mile long and extremely wide; the far eastern end occasionally is calm enough for swimming in the summer, but it can be very, very dangerous during the rest of the year. (The best reason to go to this beach is to picnic, inland, under the trees -- chow down on lunch and watch the waves roll in.) The reason for caution: Unlike other beaches on Kauai, Lumahai has no protective reef offshore, so the open ocean waves come rolling in -- full force. The force is so strong that the waves reshape the beach every year, moving the sand from one end to the other. When the surf is up there is a strong rip current and a powerful backwash, along with a dangerous shorebreak. There have been drownings here, so if the surf is up, do not go near the ocean (high surf has swept people out to sea).

Summer is the best time to enjoy this beach. On the eastern side (technically Kahalahala Beach), the surf is only calm enough for swimming on the few days when there are no waves -- even small ones. The western end appeals more to body and board surfers. To get here, take Kuhio Highway (Hwy. 560); just after Hanalei, look for the wide turnoff for the scenic lookout, park here, and take the trail from the highway that leads to the beach below. Keep heading east for Kahalahala Beach. There is also a parking area at the western end of the beach, off the highway, just before you get to Lumahai River. Lumahai Beach has no facilities and no lifeguard.

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Chris and Erin 's Wedding Map

Please visit our Wedding Map to locate accommodation, ceremony & reception location, island activities, restaurants, nearby beaches, etc.

You can use this site to map out and print directions.

Click on each location tag to find the address, phone number, photos and general information.

If you are renting a home, email us the address so we can tag it on our map. This will enable you to estimate your travel time from the airport, to the ceremony & reception and also for other guests to locate you.