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Nuʻuanu Valley Park

Tourist attraction Park

👍👍 The air up here feels cleaner, cooler, and is much windier than down closer to town. This park is usually busy after school and on the weekends, with large family picnics (complete with bouncehouses and screens for outdoor movie viewing), group sports, tai chi and karate groups, and LARPers, among o... People often mention park, playground, trees, nice, parking, beautiful, kids, basketball, love, shade,


Address

2925 Pali Hwy, Honolulu, HI 96817

Contact

(808) 768-9292

Rating on Google Maps

4.60 (199 reviews)

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Working Hours

  • Thursday: 6 AM to 10 PM
  • Friday: (Good Friday), 6 AM to 10 PM, Hours might differ
  • Saturday: 6 AM to 10 PM
  • Sunday: (Easter), 6 AM to 10 PM, Hours might differ
  • Monday: 6 AM to 10 PM
  • Tuesday: 6 AM to 10 PM
  • Wednesday: 6 AM to 10 PM

Featured Reviews


Frequently mentioned in reviews: park (21) playground (12) trees (11) nice (8) parking (8) beautiful (8) kids (7) basketball (6) love (6) shade (6)
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  • 5/5 Liyana Lynx X. 1 year ago on Google
    The air up here feels cleaner, cooler, and is much windier than down closer to town. This park is usually busy after school and on the weekends, with large family picnics (complete with bouncehouses and screens for outdoor movie viewing), group sports, tai chi and karate groups, and LARPers, among others. During school hours, it's nice and quiet. There are large grassy areas, and gorgeous old trees, a cool play structure (see separate section foe that review), undamaged tennis and basketball courts, and bathrooms that are clean and well-stocked (also reviewed in its own section). Note: there are several little packs of friendly chickens around. They stay mostly up by the parking area. They will approach if you throw breadcrumbs, or if you happen to have a vehicle that resembles one like one of their feeders. They are not aggressive, but WILL approach- sometimes en masse. However, they are easily shooed if you don't want them around. There is a gorgeous wooded area just behind the basketball courts and bathrooms. It's shady and damp, with a stream running through it. Use caution while walking, especially around dusk, as there are many little frogs toads hopping around.
    2 people found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Tricia S. 2 years ago on Google
    Park has a playground, basketball courts, tables & benches, and restrooms. Also has a little stream. Lots of parking! Great place for picnics! Beautiful backdrop for pictures as well. Kids enjoyed the playground and the sit-in spinner.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Melissa F. 1 year ago on Google
    I love this park. It's always shady and cool, there's a fair amount of parking, the bathrooms are poorly lit but generally very clean and usually stocked with toilet paper and it has one of the only truly functional wheelchair access ramps that I've ever seen at one of these parks. There's a huge wide open green grassy space, there's several enormous beautiful shade trees, and there's a pretty decent kids playground. The two water fountains in my experience have always been working whenever I've been here. The road off the Pali that actually leads in and out of the park is pretty busted up but for all this park has going right for it I really can't complain. Update: the previously mentioned "busted up" road leading off the Pali to the park has been observed sporting construction cones in recent weeks but as the cones seem to be replaced almost randomly, and have not been joined in the same time by any sort of construction-like activity or road-repairing behaviors, my best guess at this time is that they are some kind of fashion statement for the road. They are quite orange. Will continue to update as this situation progresses...
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Jackie T. 2 years ago on Google
    Nice park with lots of beautiful trees and a climbing playground. Drinking faucet, bike rack, handicap ramp and restrooms close to the playground. Benches, tables and plenty of parking.
    1 person found this review helpful 👍

  • 5/5 Tony R. 1 year ago on Google
    Stopped by to have lunch in the park and it was wonderful, it makes you forget that just down the road is downtown (the concrete jungle).

  • 4/5 Ken L. 7 months ago on Google
    All amenities are there. Bathroom, playground, dog friendly, picnic tables are there. Limited parking.

  • 5/5 Steven G. 8 months ago on Google
    I love this cool, clean, everything friendly park. Just please make sure you respect all that enjoy the park to.

  • 5/5 Eugene G. 4 months ago on Google
    Quiet and spacious. Nice place to get away from the city noise and feel like being in nature.

  • 4/5 J L. 11 months ago on Google
    Very nice and relaxing park. Grass is always green. Stream on one end with small guppies and crayfish sometimes. Just be careful because the courts can get slippery.

  • 4/5 Justin W. 1 year ago on Google
    Really great place to go to the temple for new years. Everyone is very nice. Lots of kids and dogs so please feel welcome to bring. Only thing was the line to buy charms were very long and we waited about 90 minutes to 2 hours for our new year charms.

  • 5/5 Anderson L. 1 year ago on Google
    Very good park. Clean, quiet and lots of parking. Restrooms are surprisingly clean and people look out for one another.

  • 5/5 M. C. 1 year ago on Google
    This park is pleasant and the trees are ancient and epically beautiful. The playground, tennis court and basketball court are well kept and maintained.

  • 5/5 Shannon Gay, R. 1 year ago on Google
    I love this park for my kids during all kinds of in between times. There are lots of trees for shade and there are bathrooms if you really need them.

  • 5/5 Jeff Jones Sells Hawaiian H. 2 years ago on Google
    I love this beautiful little park just off the Pali Hwy. It's great for small children and is shaded by large, beautiful trees.

  • 5/5 Charlys R. 2 years ago on Google
    Great park with lots of space to run around and play. They also have a nice playground, shady trees with tables & benches, trash can, & public bathroom.

  • 5/5 Frank K. 2 years ago on Google
    A nice place to have a picnic. The basketball court is nice!

  • 5/5 Braddah B. 2 years ago on Google
    I love this little piece of paradise. Lots of shade for an afternoon lunch or even a nap.

  • 4/5 Low B. 2 years ago on Google
    The trees are wild and huge here love it big grassy area plus don't for get to stop by the Japanese history shack and pay 25¢ for and oracle in the wooden box

  • 4/5 Kelly S. 2 years ago on Google
    Beautiful park, playground for kids, and a small stream. Beautiful park for picture taking too!!!

  • 4/5 Michael Orias (Mike M. 1 year ago on Google
    Nice park! Lots of shade, ample parking, a playground for the kiddos and basketball courts for the adults. My only gripe is there’s a mango tree that they just let drop mangos. Why that’s a negative is that the fallen mangos attract flies, so if one wanted to have a small picnic whether on the grass or at the tables, you’ve gotta be mindful of your surroundings. Otherwise, you’ll be swatting the air as much as enjoying your food. Otherwise, a nice spot to have a lunch date or just hang out!

  • 3/5 Bill Kekawa (. 2 years ago on Google
    Would give it a five star but most times the parking lot is full and most everyone goes there to enjoy the shade because of the huge trees, taking their lunch breaks! Other than that it's also known as the Queen's Park because back in the 1700's the Royalty, would often enjoy the beauty of the grounds and the beautiful shades on a hot Hawaiian day!!

  • 5/5 Brandon L. 3 years ago on Google
    Really nice little parm. Clean. Shaded. Small and charming but spacious for kids to run around. Small little playground. Not really crowded. Rains but decent cover from large beautiful trees

  • 5/5 Catherine O. 2 years ago on Google
    Fun park exciting places to look at around the area like the summer palace and boy scouts home lot of old homes with fireplaces

  • 5/5 Daniel Gittelman (. 9 months ago on Google
    Calm park with open grassy areas, a playground, and restrooms. Very old beautiful trees and an adjacent Japenese temple are here to experience, and it is connected to the Queen Emma Summer Palace Museum. The weather changes frequently in Nuuanu, so you might get lucky with a passing sprinkling of rain.

  • 4/5 Allen J D. 2 years ago on Google
    My kids would play here all day if i would let them! I like the shade and ample benches. I would give it a 5 of the bathrooms weren't dwarf size and disgusting.

  • 5/5 Valerie Marie F. 2 years ago on Google
    We cleaned out the freshwater stream and went fishing for crayfish. The rolling topography is SO perfect for letting the kids go exploring and just roam free. Bathrooms were pretty good for a public park, just bring sure to bring your own hand sanitizer and toilet paper


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Amenities


  • Pets
    • ✓️ Dogs allowed
  • Accessibility
    • ✓️ Wheelchair accessible entrance
    • ✓️ Wheelchair accessible parking lot

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