Kamaole I Park

I love this beach because it’s just across the street from my hotel. It’s always clean and there is an outdoor shower to clean off the sand before walking back to your car or hotel. There are lifeguards on duty to keep all us beach goers safe too. This beach has some picnic areas with table and benches, and a sand volleyball court too. People are playing volleyball all day and into the night too! There are conveniences of the ABC Store right across the street and this beach had bathrooms too, which I thought were clean & maintained well.

Come early to reserve your n spot if you’re having a party. Nice area but the bathrooms are to one end of the park instead of in the middle. Waves don’t get too big or rough after lunch like most kihei beaches do.

I am noticing that all the reviews of this beach are early in the year. I was just at this beach 4 days ago because i stayed at the Maui Coast Hotel which is right across the street. I guess the beach isn’t as beautiful in September as it is in March or April. I was looking at the photos people posted and those look nothing like the beach i was just at. That water was really brown and murky. Their was really huge shore break waves. It reminded me out Huntington Beach but less cold. My wife and I only hung out for 1 day at this beach and then moved on to some of the more private nicer ones. Overall it’s not that bad and if you are stayin at the Maui Coast it right there.

Go snorkeling on the north end, we saw around 10 turtles in 1.5 hours. The reef was good, but not a ton of variety of fish. The visibility was not that great. The sand was perfect!

Great chill beach just walking distance from the condo we were staying at. Bring a towel, sunscreen and a beach chair to spend your day beach bumming! Water is calmer in morning for paddleboarding or snorkeling.

This beach was right across the street from our hotel, Maui Coast.
A lot of people seemed to be parked along the beach.
Not too crowded with plenty of open areas to lay your towel or put it an umbrella to lay out.
With golden sand the water was nice to get into and no rocks.
It’s a pretty small beach with some picnic looking areas near it.
It’s a beach to chill out — no parasailing, jet skiing, etc.

Anywhere else this beach would be gold and I will admit that. But this is maui which by far has the beaches.
The beach is close to stores which is great for last minute sunscreen or food.
Pretty good local beach, can be crowded. Good for swimming, good for kids I guess. Great sunsets views which is amazing.
Better then everything though is every once in a while a turtle swims by!
So great by other standards, good by Maui standards.

Perfect for children! The waves aren’t too strong but still fun for teenagers. And the current is perfect for any age (with adult supervision of course). The sand is also very fine and soft!

So there is Kamaole I, II and III. Hubby’s said that he read online that I was the best one for snorkeling. We parked in front and jumped in. Saw some amazing fish, corals and a gang of sting rays. That was pretty scary actually. Good spot to snorkel right off the beach. Soft sand. They have restroom facilities near the beach.

Nice soft sands, convenient, easy parking. Convenience stores across the street! Nice beach that doesn’t get too crowded on the week days. You’re also in walking distance to awesome stores/​restaurants like Cruz Tacos, Cinnamon Fair, Maui Gelato, Café O’Lei and tons more! Go rent a chair (from Boss Frog across the street!) for cheap and even make it mo betta!

From a local’s perspective:
1) Awesome & clean beach to watch the sunset.
2) Parking available right next to the beach.
3) Shower & restroom facilities.
4) 1 minute walking distance to an ABC store across the street to grab the necessities.

I love this beach. Most people see the small parking lot and think they are full but really across the street is an empty dirt lot where everyone is able to park and is still very close and accessible to this beach.
Its not usually over crowded, the sand is quite shallow and soft to the feet. Great for swimming laps. There are two bbq areas, a volleyball net and bathrooms WITH DOORS!
I don’t think its a place for snorkeling but this past winter we did see 4 turtles during one of our many visits.
In the summer any time after noon this is a windy beach with choppy water. In the winter its rougher water but not as rough as a northern beach.
Its my favorite easily accessible beach on the whole island.

Yay!
Amazing beach with super soft sand (like walking on fine flour) and decent snorkeling. When we went, the water was really clear and we saw lots of little fish. Someone said they saw 15+ turtles but I had no such luck. There’s a nice view of the Molokini crater and the sunset is really gorgeous here.

We came here a few times because this was the closest swimming beach to our condo. For swimming, its fine. Maui Revealed says there is really good snorkeling here, but we found it unimpressive. The first time we came, it was way too rough to snorkel, so my mom & fiancé just body-​surfed and then we left. The second time we came, it was still rough, but we all went snorkeling. None of us thought it was that great. There is much better snorkeling a few miles to the south or up in West Maui at Black Rock. It is fine as a swimming beach, but those are a dime a dozen on Maui and this is not an especially picturesque one. I also didn’t like how crowded it is, I prefer more secluded beaches. The upside of it being crowded is that there are facilities (changing rooms, shower, etc) that lots of other beaches don’t have.

AWESOME FOR LITTLE KIDS. CLGOD (cute life guards on duty)…of course I have to make sure there are life guards just in case. I love the easy parking right on the beach or across the street by ABC store. The beach has nice buttery sand and calm surf during the summer.
This is the place to go when the whole island is drenched in tropical rain. Good for boogie boarding when there’s a little surf. Not so good for snorkeling (cloudy and no fish). My son loves to look for rock crabs on the south side of the beach among the rocks.
Don’t forget the umbrella and little ones’ sand toys!

Great swimming/​walking beach in the am. Nice fine sand straight that into the water. No rocks or coral bottom to worry about. Places to snorkel at either end. Maybe a little too popular at times, as we ended up with a large party plopping down right next to use on our last day. Not sure the boogie boarding would be very good here, especially in the summer. Waves just a little too small. This is another reason it’s a great beach. No big waves to knock you down when you weren’t looking, not that that’s ever happened to me or anything.
Oh, and an ABC store across the street on the south end, if you need some snacks, drinks, towels or have an urge to buy some tacky gifts while your friends are sunbathing.

This is a great AM and sunset beach:
In the AM, you get:
— quite a long stretch of calm, pristine swimming along the shore out by the buoys, going up and back between the two rock outcrops
— fair snorkeling by the rocks
— 2 resident sea turtles, that you are virtually guaranteed to see if you look by the southern end of rocks. (I happened to swim about 2 feet right over one on accident one day. He just lay there and moved his head from side to side, watching me. Hi honu friend!)
— gorgeous, fine and soft white sands to lie out on, listening to the waves crashing in the background
In the PM, you get:
— increased wind and tide action, rendering swimming north-​bound rather cumbersome and inducing of the dreaded SWiL (Salt-​Water in Lungs)
— increased wind on the beach, meaning sun-​bathing becomes slightly less relaxing as you are pelted with billions of tiny grains of sand (though perhaps a free exfoliation is another way to look at this)
Then of course at sunset, you get:
THE Maui sunset. The one you hear about. The one that compels locals and tourists alike to come down and watch, literally cheering at the climactic moment.

Gorgeous sand, mountain and distant island views, lifeguards watching over you, good close-​in snorkeling, lapping Pacific waves (sometimes crashing), grassy picnic areas above the dunes, decently maintained public showers and restrooms, and it’s not at all crowded by most standards. Early in the morning it’s like a dream — almost deserted in the flickering shadows of the trees nearby.
I saw a snowflake eel under a rock in waist-​deep water.

Out of all the beaches my family went to on the west side of Maui the Kamaole Park Beaches were by far our all around favorite. Most of the rocks were in plain sight and the undertow was not bad. The sand was nice and the shoreline is flat. There are nice spots for supervised toddlers to play and one can enjoy some challenging body surfing. If you’re not up for the drive to some of the more picturesque or sought after beaches don’t worry because these South Kihea beaches are great!

There are a few Kamaole beaches down Kihei Rd.
We happened to be staying across the street from Kamaole 2.
It was cloudy the day we were there, (and there was the orange flag warning) but we could still see this was a great beach.
I would definitely come back :)