Hawaii’s Big Island – The “Big Island” of Hawaii is the largest of the Hawaiian Islands and offers a stunning array of beautiful scenery.
Also known as “The Big Island,” Hawaii Island is over 4,000 square miles and encompasses 63 percent of the Hawaiian archipelago’s combined landmass and is the largest island in the United States.
The island has five volcanoes, including sacred dormant volcano Mauna Kea.
Places of interest:
- Akaka Falls, one of the tallest waterfalls on the island.
- Amy B. H. Greenwell Ethnobotanical Garden houses many endangered endemic plants.
- East Hawaiʻi Cultural Center
- Hawaiʻi Tropical Botanical Garden
- Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, comprising the active volcanoes Kīlauea and Mauna Loa
- Huliheʻe Palace, a royal palace in Kailua-Kona
- ʻImiloa Astronomy Center in Hilo
- Ka Lae, the southernmost point in the United States
- Laupāhoehoe Train Museum
- Lyman House Memorial Museum in Hilo
- Manuka State Wayside Park
- Mauna Kea Observatories
- Nani Mau Gardens
- Onizuka Center for International Astronomy
- Pacific Tsunami Museum overlooking Hilo Bay
- Pana’ewa Rainforest Zoo in Hilo
- Pua Mau Place Arboretum and Botanical Garden
- Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park
- Puʻukoho’ā Heiau National Historic Site, the site of one of the most significant heiau in Hawaii
- Rainbow Falls State Park
- Sadie Seymour Botanical Gardens
- Umauma Falls
- University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo Botanical Gardens
- Waipiʻo Valley
- Wao Kele o Puna
- World Botanical Gardens
