‘Akaka Falls State Park is a state park in Hawai‘i, located 11 miles north from Hilo (at the end of County Rte. 22) on the Island of Hawai‘i. It includes ‘Akaka Falls, the Big Island's tallest waterfall at 442 ft. tall. ‘Akaka is the Hawaiian name for this feature. The accessible portion of the park lies high on the right shoulder of the deep gorge into which the waterfall plunges, and the falls can be viewed from several points along a loop trail through the park. Also visible from this trail is Kahūnā Falls.
A stone located here and called Pōhaku a Pele, when struck by a branch of lehua ‘āpane, will call the sky to darken and rain to fall (Pukui, Elbert, & Mookini, 1974). Lehua ‘āpane or ‘ō‘hia ‘āpane is an ‘ō‘hia tree (Metrosideros polymorpha) with dark red blossoms.
‘Akaka Falls is located on Kolekole Stream. A large stone in the stream about 70 ft upstream of the falls is called Pōhaku o Kāloa (Pukui, Elbert, & Mookini, 1974).
Pukui, Mary Kawena, Samuel H. Elbert, and Esther T. Mookini. 1974. Place Names of Hawaii. The University Press of Hawaii, Honolulu. 289 pp. (ISBN 0824805240)
AkakaFalls is part of an island state park which is located 15 miles north of Hilo, in Honomu, and 4 miles off the Hawai'i Belt Road (Highway 19).
AkakaFalls has a 0.7 mile guided loop through planted botanical forests of gingers, bamboos, orchids, azaleas, tree ferns, hibiscus, and other introduced native species.
AkakaFalls with its 420 feet cascade is the biggest water fall on the Big Island.
‘AkakaFalls State Park is a state park in Hawai‘i, located 11 miles north from Hilo (at the end of Highway 220) on the Island of Hawai‘i.
“‘Akaka” means "A rent, split, chink, separation; to crack, split, scale".
The accessible portion of the park lies high on the right shoulder of the deep gorge into which the waterfall plunges, and the falls can be viewed from several points along a loop trail through the park.
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