Makapuʻu Beach
Free to visitEast side
The body-surfing beach under the Makapuʻu cliffs, where the highway swings round toward Waimānalo.
- Time there
- 30 minutes
- Best time
- Calm summer days for a swim; winter for watching
- Cost
- Free
- Good to know
- The shorebreak is powerful; swim only when the lifeguards say it is calm.
Filmed here
Magnum, P.I. (1980) · S3E19 “Legacy from a Friend”
One of several Magnum episodes at the beach.
Hawaii Five-0 (2010)
McGarrett and Danno’s Camaro takes the curve past Makapuʻu on the way to a crime scene.
Hawaii Five-O (1968) · Season 2, “A Thousand Pardons, You’re Dead”
Beach scenes.
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