Friends of Malaekahana, Oahu (Safe & Beautiful Oahu Camping: Yurts, Tent sites, Beach Houses)
Near the Polynesian Cultural Center and the North Shore, on Oahu's incredibly scenic side Windward side, you can pitch your tent or rent a yurt at one of the most safe and beautiful of Hawaii's campgrounds: Friends of Malaekahana, also called Malaekahana, Kahuku side. This is my favorite Hawaii campground. If you are looking for alternative accomodations on Oahu, this is a wonderful place to stay.
Friends of Malaekahana ,members of the Hawaii Ecotourism Association and a community based non-profit organization, has been managing this campground for the Hawaii Department of Parks and the Department of Land and Natural Resources since 1994. We discovered it when I found discount Hawaii airfare on Hawaiian Air and Hotwire.com or less than $200 roundtrip to Oahu but didn't have money for hotels. With a larger budget, I still would include a few nights at Malaekahana Campground.
If you've been there before but not recently, know that since taking over management of this Hawaii State Recreaion Area's section, the group has made many improvements, including adding yurts and repairing and painting the beach houses and the outdoor showers. The Friends have earned the reputation of providing the "safest camping in the islands.” Voted in 1999 by Honolulu Weekly readers as "The Best Campground in the Islands,” it's even better today.
Located on the North Shore of the Windward site about 15 minutes from the famous surfing spots like Waimea Bay and the Pipeline (but with a far smaller and friendlier surf) and just a couple miles north of the Polynesian Cultural Center, the Kahuku (north side) and name of town) side of Malaekahana State Recreation Area offers one of the most secure places to pitch your tent in all of Hawaii on one of the most beautiful stretches of beach in the islands.
The campground offers 40 tent sites with picnic tables and fire pits. Flush toilet facilities and unique hot outdoor showers are within easy walking distance from all the sites. The outdoor showers are painted with whimsical fish and turtles and are built around banyan trees. There is piped in water at double kitchen sinks in two locations. Five furnished yurts include electricity and sleep two to six. There are also rustic but clean fully furnished beach houses with stoves and refrigerators ranging in size from 600 to 5,000 square feet.
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Malaekahana pest control (they like coconuts too).
View from our tent at dawn.
Malaekahana Beach in front of our tent
Malaekahana Family Size Yurt
View from our Tent
How many guys does it take to get the morning fire going? Three and a towel when it's windy.
