Waikōloa Petroglyph Reserve

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Notes from visits

• The Waikoloa petroglyph preserve is one of the two petroglyph fields north of Kailua-Kona (south Kohala). The petroglyphs around the trail are scattered like graffiti everywhere you look. Some are graphic (humans, birds, canoes) and others cryptic (dots, lines). Western influences appear in the form of horses and English initials.
  
  

  The Waikoloa Petroglyph Field is one of the best preserved petroglyph sites on the Big Island. Other nearby petroglyph fields are the Pukao Petroglyph field and the Pu’u Loa petroglyphs near Volcano Village.
  
  

  Directions to the Waikoloa Petroglyphs:
  
  

  To get to this field from Kailua-Kona, take Highway 19 north for 25 minutes to the first stop light after the airport, and turn left towards the Waikoloa beach resorts. Continue for about a quarter mile and then turn right at the first parking lot next to the gas station, park and then walk to the right of the station and pick up the Kings trail (also known as the Kiholo Puako trail).
  -- https://www.lovebigisland.com/waikoloa-petroglyphs/

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