Old Kona Airport State Recreation Area

Old Kona Airport State Recreation Area, locally called Old A, occupies the former airport site north of Kailua-Kona on Hawaiʻi Island. Begun as a World War II landing strip, it expanded in the late 1940s into a small tourist airport and later handled interisland airline service as tourism grew in the 1960s. After the larger Kona International Airport opened at Keahole Point in 1970, airline operations moved and the old airfield became a state park in 1976. Today its runway survives as an access road and parking area, its terminal as a public pavilion, and the shoreline park combines community recreation with visible traces of Kona’s aviation past.

Kalaoa, Hawaii · United States