Mai Poina Oe Iau Beach Park
Kihei, HI
Mai Poina Oe Iau Beach Park, the name meaning forget me not, sits along North Kihei Road with a long grassy lawn and a beach favored by windsurfers testing the same steady trade winds that make Kanaha famous a few miles north. It's less known to visitors than Kihei's Kamaole parks, which keeps the grass and sand comfortably uncrowded most days.
A genuinely pleasant, underused park with real shade and grass, held back from a higher score only by water that's often too wind chopped for casual swimming.
How we score beachesThe lawn here is one of the better, less crowded picnic spots in North Kihei, with enough shade trees to matter by midafternoon.
A free lot sits right off North Kihei Road, generally easy to find space in outside of weekend afternoons.
A flat, grassy lawn with pavilions leads onto open sand, an easy walk for strollers with no stairs.
Trade winds build through summer afternoons, drawing windsurfers, while winter is calmer and better suited to a straightforward beach day.
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