The Akaka Falls State Park on the Big Island’s northeastern Hamakua Coast is home to two of the island’s most popular waterfalls – Akaka Falls and Kahuna Falls. A beautiful 0.4-mile loop trail leads through the park, through a lush rainforest filled with bamboo groves, tropical flowers and ferns to the two waterfalls. First up on this short hike will be the 100-foot Kahuna Falls, which will already make you curious to see the much larger, 442-foot Akaka Falls around the corner, which plummets from a cliff down into a pool of water below. You won’t be able to reach the top of the waterfall or the bottom pool area. But it’s nice enough to view it from a distance and the pictures that... [Read more]