Our partners Pu‘uhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park, Kaloko-Honokōhau National Historical Park, & Pu'ukohola Heiau National Historic Site located on the west coast of Hawaiʻi Island have resumed normal operating hours today. Please use caution. ☔
📷: NPS
#ParksReopen #PUHO #KAHO #PUHE #HPPA
You guys 🫶 your national parks. We work in them, we can tell!
In just the last 5 months at our Pu'ukohola Heiau National Historic Site store, you folks donated $5,817 at the register at checkout, and your donations stay right there in the park.
IMGS: NPS/PUHE
#ParkSupport #PUHO #HPPA
Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park, visitor center, and park store will reopen on Monday, March 16 at noon. Visitors are advised to use caution, as some areas of the park may still be affected by the recent storm. 🌴🌴🌴🌴
#ParkReopen #PUHO #HPPA #KonaLow
Kaloko-Honokōhau NHP, Pu‘uhonua o Hōnaunau NHP, and Puʻukoholā Heiau NHS will continue to be closed Sunday, March 15 due to severe weather & flooding.
This storm is currently impacting Hawaiʻi Island.
Screenshot of Kailua-Kona coast: www.konaweb.com/cam/index.html
#PUHE #PUHO #KAHO
🚫Park Closure Notice
Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park, including the visitor center & park store, is closed Friday & Saturday (March 13-14) due to severe weather. ⛈️ This storm is expected to bring heavy rainfall 🌧️, flooding, & strong damaging winds 💨 to Hawaiʻi Island.
#PUHO #KonaLow
Where do you take your breaks at work? ☕🌿
Belinda is on our Pu‘uhonua o Hōnaunau NHP store team so she takes her breaks in what she calls: "the best break room ever!" If you have visited this gorgeous, serene, incredibly important Hawaiian site, you know.
#ThisIsWhereWeWork #ADayInMyJob #HPPA #PUHO
#Hawaiian cultural demonstrations remaining for March at Pu‘uhonua o Hōnaunau NHP 🌺🌊
Mondays: 23, 30
Ulana 'Ie - 'Ie'ie Style Basketry in the Hale 9am - 1pm 🧺🌿
Tuesdays: March 10 & 24
Lomilomi - Hawaiian Massage & Healing in the Hale 9am-2pm 💆♀️✨
Some programs supported by HPPA 💙
NPS Photo
#PUHO
HPPAʻs Amanda at our Pu‘uhonua o Hōnaunau NHP store likes to take walks before work & document the park.
A morning glory🌸, pohuehue is an indigenous coastal plant. It forms a dense groundcover important for erosion control 🌊🏝️.
#ThisIsWhereWeWork #HPPA #PUHO #Pohuehue #WhatsTheStoryMorningGlory
In case you need a good map of the #MHI:
The Islands' most popular hotspots, like Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, Haleakalā National Park, Puʻuhonua o Honaunau National Historical Park, and many others are all marked on the map, as are hidden gems.
#HawaiiMap #HVNP #HALE #PUHO
In the park store now, and online soooooon, mug collectors and parks fans! 🌴☕️🤩
Did you know there are four national park sites on Hawai’i Island? Do you have all the mugs yet? 🛍️.
#puuhonuaohōnaunaunationalhistoricalpark #puho #parkmug #hawaiiparks #hawaiimug
National parks fan Anne Smerekanicz & her #Grogu are pretty committed to getting those #JuniorRanger badges & in the process learning all they can about the national park site they are visiting.
Fun pics, Anne Smerekanicz! Happy travels & enjoy collecting those badges & learning!
#PUHO #HawaiiParks
Our most heartfelt mahalo nui loa goes out to #KHON2 News, who heard about Bun Bun's national park lost & found adventure & picked up the story! 🐰
May all the Bun Buns out there have adventures but come home safely!
Happy New Year! 💙
#HPPA #NPS #PUHO #BunBun #BunBunsHawaiiNationalParkAdventure
For those who wish to share the story on #IG, that link is now here:
#BunBunGoesHome #HPPA #NPS #PUHO
Sometimes the small moments that happen during the annual, HPPA-supported, national park cultural festivals are just too sweet for words. 🐟🐟🐟
This scene unfolded at our partner Pu‘uhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park in late June a few years ago.
#HawaiiParks #HPPA #PUHO #CulturalFestivals
Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau NHP update:
There are some #plumbing issues so there is no #water (bathrooms, fountains, spigots, etc.) until tomorrow, Dec. 18th. 🚰
Today there are port-o-potties 🚻, so plan ahead if you will be visiting. 🌺🌴
There will be a limited amount of bottled water for sale.
#PUHO #HPPA
NOT to be outdone by our two other Hawaiʻi Island park stores displays, the team at our Pu‘uhonua o Hōnaunau NHP store is dialing it uuuuuup for the holidays, people!
DECORATING is HAPPENING at our cute VC store. The tree topper is inspired.🌴🌊☀️
Thanks for sending over the pics, Pete & Amanda!
#PUHO
Somewhere over the rainbow at Pu‘uhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park... 🌈
Mahalo to our Amanda at the VC park store who is always on the lookout for the beauty inherent to that amazing Hawaiʻi national historical park.
#ThisIsWhereWeWork #HPPA #PUHO #weworkhere #HawaiiParks #MahaloAmanda
Our very own Chico bottle sling, designed for Pu‘uhonua o Hōnaunau NH Park. Perfect for bringing along your water bottle, mobile phone (in the pocket!), lip balm, & car key when you want to go light & quick with just the basics. 💧📱🔑✨
Shop: shop.hawaiipacificparks.org/products/bot...
#PUHO #HPPA
CORRECTION: The park will be open on Thanksgiving, November 27th, after all. The park will have limited NPS staffing available, and the visitor center park store will be closed for the day.
#PUHO #NPS #HPPA
Park update:
Our partner Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park on Hawaiʻi Island will be closed for Thanksgiving this Thursday, November 27, 2025. We will reopen on Friday, November 28. Mahalo!
#ParkUpdate #PUHO #HolidayClosure
IMG: PUHO/NPS
HPPA's Amanda at our Pu‘uhonua o Hōnaunau NHP park store is generous with her art. This photo of a black-crowned night heron on park grounds is called:
“ʻAukuʻu reflecting at the fishponds in the Royal Grounds at Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park.” 🐦🌴💧
#ThisIsWhereWeWork #HPPA #PUHO
HPPA's Pete, on our Pu‘uhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park store staff, loves a good before/after/lunch walk 🚶♂️🌞. The benefit of working in such a magnificent national park site is that his walks can look like this. 🌊😍
#ThisIsWhereWeWork #ThanksPete #1871Trail #PuuhonuaOHonaunau #HPPA #PUHO
👻 Boooo!
Come blow the pū! 🐚✨
Amanda at our Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park store says Happy Halloween 🎃 and also — there is a sale on pū plushies! 🧸💨
#BlowThePū #Plushies #PUHO #HalloweenSale
Happy #AlohaFriday from the yellow tangs 💛🐠 feeding in this beautiful school just offshore of our partner Pu’uhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park on Hawai’i Island. Need to hear the ocean? 👂🏾🌊 Turn up the volume.
#hawaiiparks #PUHO #yellowtangsofinstagram
Need a little #TuesdayMotivation and the sound of the ocean 🌊 in your ears?
Our partner Pu’uhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park can help you with that on a lovely low tide morning. 🐠
This national park site is partly open but with limited services. Plan ahead for heat and humidity. 🌞
#PUHO
Our Amanda at our Pu‘uhonua o Hōnaunau Nat. Hist. Park store said to tell you that she is making sure the kōnane board is all set up for you!
Bring your strategic thinking skills and let's see how you do with this Hawaiian game of discipline!
#PUHO #nationalhistoricalparks #kōnane #HPPA #NPS
🌺 Hauʻoli Kepakemapa Kākou! 🍃 Happy September to all! Cultural demos at our partner Pu‘uhonua o Hōnaunau NHP:
FRIDAYS
🌴 Sept. 12, 19 & 26 – ʻUlana Launiu – Coconut Frond Weaving with Aunty Keikilani San Filippo ⏰ 9am–2pm
🪵 Sept. 19 – Kālai Lāʻau – Wood Carving with Lolana Medeiros ⏰ 9am–2pm
#PUHO
🌺 Hauʻoli Kepakemapa Kākou! 🍃 Happy September to all! Cultural demonstrations for September at our partner Pu‘uhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park:
THURSDAYS:
🌴 Sept. 18 & 25 – ʻUlana Launiu – Coconut Frond Weaving with Aunty Keikilani San Filippo in the Hālau Stop 16 ⏰ 9am–2pm
#PUHO #HPPA
🌺 Hauʻoli Kepakemapa Kākou! 🍃 Happy September to all! Cultural demonstrations at our partner Pu‘uhonua o Hōnaunau NHP 🏝️:
WEDNESDAYS:
Sept. 10, 17 & 24 – ʻOhe Kāpala – Bamboo Stamping with Chantal Chung ⏰ 9am–2pm
🧺 Sept. 17 – ʻUlana ʻIe – ʻIeʻie Style Basketry with Melba Medeiros ⏰ 9am–2pm
#PUHO
🌺 Hauʻoli Kepakemapa Kākou! 🍃 Happy September to all! Cultural demonstrations at our partner Pu‘uhonua o Hōnaunau NHP:
TUESDAYS:
🌸 Sept. 9, 16, 23 & 30 – Hana Lei – Lei Making with Melanie Moses ⏰ 10:00am–2pm
💆 Sept. 9 & 23 – Lomilomi – Hawaiian Massage & Healing with Momi Nobriga ⏰ 9am–2pm
#PUHO
