Waimea, HI Hotels, Vacations, Tourism

Kohala's largest community, WAIMEA , is no longer the company town it used to be; the Parker Ranch now employs just one hundred of its eight thousand inhabitants. While still proud of its cowboy past – memorabilia of the much-mythologized paniolos is prominent everywhere – Waimea has become more of a sophisticated country resort and is now home to a diverse community that includes international astronomers from the Mauna Kea observatories and successful entrepreneurs from the mainland. Poised halfway between the contrasting Kohala and Hamakua coasts, Waimea has "wet" and … more »