Keehi Lagoon Park

Kitty Land! If you enjoy the sights and smells that feral cats offer this park is a MUST (Not recommended for pregnant women tho). Open late! Great place to air out your toes before a fortnight!

Aged and not quite the Ke’ehi Lagoon I remembered. I used to paddle 6-​man canoe here when I was younger. There is a playground here, but it is falling a part and long due a refresh. When I left, I saw some gentlemen the setting up markers for a game of football, so I am glad to know that the park isn’t short of usage. Unlike most parks near this side of the island, Ke’ehi Lagoon is not riddled with homeless people… for now. But like many parks along this side of the island, Ke’ehi Lagoon is long due a refresh to attract more people to come.

So I got myself a Samurai ice cream and needed someplace to chill and eat it. Drove here to relax and people watch. There is tennis, soccer, football, baseball lots of sports going on!
Few homeless people but none that harass you thank goodness. I hate to be hassled or asked for money. Surprisingly not much trash seemed cleaned up a bit. There is a kids playground with slides climbing etc.
I remember back in the days when a dead body was found in the water near here. Wonder if they caught the killer? Oops that’s for another time and story.

When visiting Keehi Lagoon Park in Fall 2012, boy did a lot of the facilities and equipment look outdated. Based on other Unilocalers’ reviews, sounds like this park used to be very beautiful in years past, but even the lagoon itself looked rather polluted and in need of some clean-​up. The rest of Keehi Lagoon Park looked like it needed some upgrades and badly needed maintenance, but otherwise it’s okay. The park is right near the Honolulu International Airport and you can also see Downtown Honolulu in the distance.

Due to circumstances beyond my control, I was recently in the position of having to kill a couple of hours before boarding a flight back to my hometown of San Francisco at Honolulu’s International Airport. I found myself in that classic traveler’s limbo land of where one has to be out of their hotel room far in advance of when their actual flight was departing. Not wanting to just sit around in the airport any more than I had to, I opted to drive as reasonably as close to it as possible, with my economy rental from Alamo, (which was due back in a couple of hours) and still be able to soak up some of that sweet Hawaiian sunshine, which was available in abundance at the time. Keehi Lagoon Park is right on the southeast perimeter of the airport; in fact it was right over the flight path of departing planes that day, and it was quite easy to see parked jumbo jets in the distance.
All in all, I have to say that when I was at the park (a mid-​week day), I found it to be a sad, forlorn, almost desolate place, possessing a reclaimed land feel about it, like in a former life, it was once a landfill. There was absolutely nobody else to be seen in the park, (not even one homeless soul), despite the number of (mostly rundown) tennis courts, what appeared to be what could have been a jogging path, and a large field, configured for baseball at the time of my visit. I got the impression that the park might be popular on weekends, where locals hold those mass cook-​outs like they do at Blaisdell Park in Pearl City, based on the amount of trash I saw strewn about in the parking lot I was; it would be ideal for one of those get-​togethers, with all of the ample open space the park has.
To sum this up, the park does have the wonderful sunshine that Hawaii has been blessed with, but its odd and somewhat remote location (kind of an industrial area right by the airport), and its overall condition, which I rate as seedy, made me think that it would feel right at home in any other industrial area of any other big American city. If it wasn’t for the sunshine, the park may as well be sitting at the end of a runway at O’Hare. Let me be clear: Keehi Lagoon Park will never be mistaken for Dolores Park in San Francisco. It just seems to be the victim of being in an unassuming place in a state that has many hundreds of places much more beautiful (and better) to spend some outdoor recreation time in.

My review is on the tennis courts in this park.
I frequent this place often, but not by choice. It’s one of the location for USTA tennis matches and it’s one of the least desirable places to play league tennis. The tennis courts have large cracks in them, making for very dangerous play. The bathrooms are a far walk and riddled with homeless people and neglected by the C&C. If nature calls, bring your own toilet paper and a friend for your own safety. Previously, we would walk to the Chevron located at the entrance to the park to use their restroom, but unfortunately that Chevron has been torn down.
Also, watch out for the red ants! They bite and it stings!
The one good thing about the tennis courts at this park is that there is parking, and it’s windy, so the courts dry pretty fast after it rains.

As I come around to this park, I would ask myself, what happened to it? It was such a beautiful park before. There were green grass everywhere but now it’s just dirt, in some spots it’s completely dead. The up keeping of this park has gone down the drain. Such a sad sight to see from how it was back in the days

This park could sure use a facelift. It’s definitely not my first choice in parks to go to. The park doesn’t have enough grass and the grass it contains barely has enough green to it. They do have a couple of sets of tennis courts, one in the beginning of the park and one on the other end. They also have several parking areas but the lot is full of potholes and those annoying and extremely high speed bumps. Their restrooms are horrid so I recommend using the restroom before going to this park or going elsewhere. I suppose the upside of this park is that it’s conveniently located near the airport and near a lot of businesses so it’s a good place to stop for a picnic or meeting someone. However, like the previous reviews stated, there is a pretty large homeless presence here and in this area in general.

The tennis courts here are so old!!! I would have never known that there are tennis courts in this tiny park in Salt Lake had it not been for a match that was scheduled here. The tennis courts here are limited and are old. I do not recall seeing lights, but I am not certain.
The two times that I have been here were for a tennis match and both times, it was really windy! That makes it hard to play tennis when you’re a newbie and still trying to predict where and how the tennis ball will land and bounce at you!
Overall, I heard that a tennis team practices here regularly on weeknights, so it might be hard to find an open court to play in.

Yes, take heed on all of the 1 – 2 star ratings and reviews of Ke’ehi Lagoon Park. You shouldn’t go to this park. The water is brown and not very swim-​able, this is a shark breeding ground (white tips), it can be very windy, there is not much sand to lounge on, it is hot (ha, that comment/​review that other person left cracks me up), there are homeless living there, there is no electricity at night because the copper thieves hit, you would not like it.
I say this all in jest as I happen to have a special affinity for this place. It is said that this lagoon hosted canoe races during the reign of King Kalakaua. I practice and race canoe here and during paddling season I pick up rubbish along the baseball field and waterline about twice a week. I easily pull a large garbage bag each session. I know that most of the litter is accidentally windblown (and not intentionally left by those hell-​bound losers) as they tend to be lightweight pieces like plastic bags, foam, candy wrappers, plate lunch plates, straw wrappers.
So it is with my typical sarcasm that I leave this 2-​star review of Ke’ehi as my way of saying that I’d rather not see more crowds which will inevitably leave more debris to be picked up.

This park needs work. More weeds than grass. Not enough water. No shade. Sorry, but I’m not likely to revisit.

I had to come here for a work event at one of the halls. It was okay but a bit too hot for me. It was at night but I didn’t like it. I don’t come here unless I have to.

Went here to hit the park and fly a kite, and it was okay. There was a pretty high homeless presence, but I don’t really mind that sort of thing.
Overall it was a big, fine space. They could use more tables in the not structurally shaded area and a water source.
It appears this is the place for competative paddling practice, so there is no shoratage of eye candy wandering through at any given time.
At the playground the slide was not accessible for toddlers due to poles and wires to climb to get up to it instead of steps.

dirty water only go there fo’ canoe races & for a pinic

It’s a quiet peaceful place to hang out at.

Looking for a nearby park to go chill at the beach and eat our meals. Google led us to Keehi Lagoon Beach. I can’t really say it’s a beach, but more of a loading dock for row boats. When we went there, there was a canoe competition going on so there were lots of people. There’s a big field to play football and soccer (probably at the same time), but that’s about it.
Tons of other beaches to go to, so don’t waste you’re time here unless you like row boating. Nothing like a backdrop of a highway and an airport next to the park.