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Start from 71 curated places around Big Island, HI, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.

Restaurants & cafés

Da Poke Shack
Kailua-Kona walk-up counter doing nothing but poke bowls and pulled-ahi plates — house-marinated cubes of yellowfin and aku over hot rice with seaweed salad. The Kona poke standard locals reorder.

Umekes Fish Market Bar & Grill
Kona room doing Hawaiian-Asian-leaning seafood — poke bowls, ahi belly, miso-glazed butterfish, and sashimi. The locals' upmarket seafood pick that out-of-towners often miss.

Trails & outdoors

Kilauea Iki Trail
Four-mile loop in Volcanoes National Park — drops 400 feet into a still-steaming 1959 crater, walks the cracked lava-lake floor, and climbs back through ohia rainforest. The signature volcano hike.

Pu'u Loa Petroglyphs Trail
Easy one-and-a-half mile out-and-back across a lava-rock plain to a wooden boardwalk over 23,000 ancient Hawaiian petroglyphs carved by piko-burying parents. Hot, exposed, deeply moving when read slowly.

Things to do

Imiloa Astronomy Center
Hilo astronomy-and-Polynesian-navigation museum on the University of Hawaii Hilo campus — connects modern astronomy to traditional Hawaiian wayfinding. Planetarium shows, hands-on exhibits, and a deeper context for any Mauna Kea visit.

Lyman Museum and Mission House
Hilo museum and restored 1839 missionary house — natural history of the island, plantation-era artifacts, and the oldest standing wood-frame building in the state. Smaller and more focused than the State Museum.

Landmarks & sights

Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park
333,000 acres straddling Kilauea and Mauna Loa — the place where Hawaii is literally still being built. Crater Rim Drive, Chain of Craters Road, hikeable lava-tube tunnels, and a steam-vented Kilauea caldera that's been the most active volcano on earth for centuries.

Hapuna Beach State Recreation Area
Half-mile crescent of white sand on the Kohala Coast — repeatedly voted the best beach in the United States by Conde Nast Traveler. Wide, lifeguarded, with snorkeling at the rocky points on either end and the most reliable wave conditions for kids.

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