Mokuleia Beach

Mokuleia Beach comprises approximately six miles of narrows white sand beach approximately 150 feet wide between Kaiaka Bay and Camp Erdman. Mokuleia Beach Park is a twelve-acre park located midway along the beach. Park facilities include restrooms, showers, camping sites, and parking.

Mokuleia Beach borders some of the last undeveloped sections of shoreline on Oahu. These sections are found primarily to the west of the beach park, and they attract beachgoers who want to get away from the North Shore surfing crowds or who are looking for a peaceful place to camp, fish, swim, or surf. Although high surf strikes this shore as hard as it does the beaches to the north of Haleiwa, the extensive fringing reefs protect several nearshore sites and allow swimming and snorkeling even when the surf is up. One of the most popular of these sites is a large, shallow, sand-bottomed pocket in the reef off the west end of the Mokuleia Airfield. This area and others are also good for beachcombing. High surf and winter storms often deposit shells in the debris line, making Mokuleia Beach an excellent shelling site. Beachcombers are commonly seen walking the beach, scanning the debris line and sifting the sand for shells and other items of interest that have washed ashore.

A few of the activities at Mokuleia Beach Park are beachcombing, bodyboarding, fishing, snorkeling, surfing, swimming, and windsurfing.

High surf generates dangerous water conditions, including powerful shorebreaks, longshore currents, rip currents, and backwashes sweeping across the foreshore. The high surf season normally occurs during the winter and spring months, beginning in October and ending in May. There are no lifeguards anywhere along the beach.