By state
National parks in Hawaii
Every National Park Service unit in Hawaii, scored and ranked by our Experience Score.
100ESSENTIAL
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National Historic Trail · HI
Ala Kahakai National Historic Trail
Ala Kahakai is not a single trailhead experience but a 175-mile coastal corridor woven through living Hawaiian culture, ancient land divisions, and the raw lava-edged shoreline of the Big Island.
83EXCELLENT
Courtesy of J. Frank
National Park · HI
Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park
This is one of the few places on Earth where you can watch a landscape being actively built.
83EXCELLENT
Herb Kane
National Historic Site · HI
Puʻukoholā Heiau National Historic Site
Puʻukoholā Heiau is a compact but genuinely powerful historic site on the Kohala Coast where Kamehameha the Great built the war temple that unified the Hawaiian Islands.
76EXCELLENT
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National Historical Park · HI
Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park
Puuhonua o Honaunau is one of the most historically charged sites in the entire national park system, and it happens to be free.
60WORTH IT
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National Historical Park · HI
Kaloko-Honokōhau National Historical Park
Kaloko-Honokohau is a free, genuinely underrated stop on the Kona Coast that rewards curiosity over comfort.
57WORTH IT
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National Memorial · HI
Pearl Harbor National Memorial
Pearl Harbor National Memorial is one of the most emotionally significant sites in American history, and the free admission makes the obligation to visit even clearer.
52NICHE
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National Park · HI
Haleakalā National Park
Haleakala is two parks in one: a high-altitude volcanic summit where temperatures can drop to 30°F and sunrise draws serious early risers, and the lush Kipahulu coastal district where waterfalls feed swimming holes in a subtropical rainforest.
38NICHE
Tylor Tanaka
National Historical Park · HI
Kalaupapa National Historical Park
Kalaupapa is unlike any other unit in the national park system.
37NICHE
Photograph by R. H. Lodge. Courtesy of Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i / Hawaii’s Plantation Vil
National Historic Site · HI
Honouliuli National Historic Site
Honouliuli preserves the site of one of Hawaii's largest World War II internment camps, where Japanese Americans and others were held under martial law.