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Pu'u Wa'a Wa'a Ranch
71-1645 Mamalahoa Highway
Kailua-Kona, HI 96740
Coordinates for GPS: 19.778201, -155.843499

The ranch is at 2500 ft. elevation, dress for mauka weather as it can be chilly & wet. 

Directions to Puʻu Waʻawaʻa Ranch
 
From Kailua-Kona: 
(About a 35-minute drive) 

•  Take Palani to Mamalahoa Hwy (190), head north toward Waimea.
• As you get closer to Mile Marker #22, you will see houses in the background ahead on a ridge and a very large puʻu (cinder cone) in the distance on your right. 
• Get ready to slow down and turn RIGHT into the driveway with a solar powered recessed metal gate.

• Stay on Highway 190 going south. You will see Puʻu Lani Ranch subdivision access on your left. 
• Soon after passing Puʻu Lani, you will be traveling down a hill. 
• Once at the bottom, be prepared to take the first LEFT into the driveway of Puʻu Waʻawaʻa access road with a solar powered recessed metal gate.

• Come through the gate, which should open automatically. If the gate does not open, get out and manually open it then close it behind you (livestock inside).  
• Drive straight. 
• It’s common to see livestock including: Black Angus cattle, feral sheep, and pigs along the road. Please go slow and be patient. 
• You will approach a Y on the road with a brown signboard and a tiny green corrugated roof structure on the left.
• Stay to your RIGHT and drive approximately 2 miles up on the paved road.  
• You will come to an overhead sign, “Puʻu Waʻawaʻa Ranch” over a cattle gap.  
• Pass the Energy Lab, which will be on your left. Do NOT park by the Energy Lab, continue up the road to the first paved RIGHT turn.
• Head toward the LEFT side of the open pavilion.   
• Park to the left of the pavilion, where there is an open grass area and not in the circle driveway.

• ​When leaving, use high beams and avoid livestock.  
• At the gate, pull up to the stop line in the center of the road. The gate opens toward you.
• Be sure the gate closes once you exit, otherwise manually close it.

 


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