Honokaa, HI Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

The largest and most characterful of the Hamakua towns is rough-and-tumble HONOKA'A , forty miles north of Hilo where the Belt Road curves west to run across the island to Waimea. Consisting largely of a row of quaint timber-framed stores set on the wooden boardwalks of Mamane Street, it stands a couple of miles back from the ocean and is surrounded by rolling meadows. Just over two thousand people live in Honoka'a, whose economy depended on a mill belonging to the Hamakua Sugar Company from 1873 until it finally shut down in 1994. Still, this is one of several Big Island communities to have been spruced up and … more »