Ala Moana Beach

Ala Moana Beach Park is the largest urban beach park in Honolulu and includes over 100 acres of picnic areas, softball fields, comfort stations, showers, food concessions, tennis courts, and parking. Fronting the park is a narrow white sand beach over one-half mile long with a deep swimming channel. The eastern portion of the park is a peninsula, extending seaward to a lagoon and a white sand beach, bordered by the Ala Wai Boat Harbor, the only boat harbor in Waikiki.

Ala Moana Beach Park is the most popular beach park in urban Honolulu. It is heavily used by swimmers, surfers, sunbathers, joggers, tennis players, model boat sailors, picnickers, fishermen, softball players, lawn bowlers, and strollers. Local families love beach parks, and Ala Moana offers one of the best combinations of park and beach activities in Hawaii

A few of the many activities at Ala Moana Beach Park are bodyboarding, fishing, scuba diving, swimming, and surfing.

The Ala Moana Beach swimming channel is a former boat channel that was dredged out of the reef to depths of twenty-five feet. The ocean bottom in the channel drops quickly to overhead depths and water visibility is poor, so children and less experienced swimmers should stay neat shore. Swimmers should be aware that stinging jellyfish invade the swimming channel once a month. If you are susceptible to allergic reactions from bee and other insect stings, you should expect the same reactions from box jellyfish stings. Lifeguards are on duty daily. Check with them to find out if it is safe to swim.