A great crescent-shaped beach, water activities, wildlife, seclusion, and traditional Hawaiian salt-making, make Salt Pond Beach Kauai a unique find.
A great crescent-shaped beach, water activities, wildlife, seclusion, and traditional Hawaiian salt-making, make Salt Pond Beach Kauai a unique find.
It is a great little beach park. Better hurry up and take it in before they decide that tourist don’t deserve to enjoy it and make it permit required and only grant permits to Kauai residents.
I have spent 40 winters in Poipu. Be sides Mahalipu I have windsurfed Salt Ponds outer reef. But the life guards do not want wind surfers to launch in the swimming area. Access is the road along side the airport. The launch area is to the left over a lava rock beach. It is not for beginners. I have had some epic sessions there. Peace
It has been many years since I’ve been to Salt Pond and you are right on that this is a beautiful beach and the salt pans super interesting. Perhaps I went at the wrong time but the last time I was at the beach, it was pretty crowded with locals and felt as if this was one of the places for locals and it didn’t feel right for it to be overrun with visitors. I’ve had the same experience at Anahola beach park. Have things changed much about this ? Thank you for this post.
Hi AW.
There has always been a mix of residents and visitors at Salt Pond. It’s big and spread out enough that we’ve never seen it crowded, or ever had a bad time.
Aloha.
Yes! This is my new favorite beach! Water was absolutely amazing.
A few years ago, a local friend took us to Salt Pond Beach, not the main beach park, but an area just west of the southern end of the airstrip. We lit a bonfire using driftwood we found on the beach, and ate snow crabs that had just been flown in from Vancouver I believe. A few locals were there with their kids who were splashing around in the shallow pools. No other tourists besides us. At dusk, we were privileged to witness a great sunset. It was a little challenging to get to- the rutted dirt road on the east and south side of the airstrip was “fun”. We hope to do it again when we return next February.