MacKenzie State Recreation Area

Hilo, HI U.S.A.

Low cliffs and a wild volcanic coastline attracts visitors to this 13-acre park on the Kalapana-Kapoho Beach Road, Hwy. 132, on the island of Hawaii.

Anglers cast in the surf for ulua, a jack fish, from the 40-foot high cliffs.

King's Highway, an old Hawaiian coastal trail, traverses the park and skirts the ocean. The trail was part of a network of trails that linked Hawaiians around the island.

This trail portion was believed to have been built by prison labor in the late 1860s. A long lava tube is found along the trail near the parking lot.

The park has a primitive tent campground with no drinking water.

A bed of hardened lava, with a picnic facility in the background, at MacKenzie State Recreation Area.

A picnic shelter at the MacKenzie State Recreation Area on the island of Hawaii.

A marker tells the story of the King's Highway, a trail that once linked Hawaiians on the island of Oahu.