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Maps to your favorite Mauna Loa destination
Drive Around the Big Island
Take a drive around the Big Island of Hawai`i and enjoy the agriculture, productivity and creativity of Hawai`i residents as you stop in at Mauna Loa Visitor Centers. From Kona, heading south to and through Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park, you will find Mauna Loa visitor centers at Captain Cook, Na`alehu and near Hilo. They are perfect rests stops, with snacks, Mauna Loa product tasting, gift shops, clean restrooms, and an inside look at Mauna Loa's coffee, macadamia and bakery operations.
Kona Coffee Country: Mauna Loa Market Place
From Kona, drive south on Highway 11, Mamalahoa Highway, to Captain Cook and visit the Mauna Loa Market Place and Polynesian Village, which serves as headquarters for Royal Kona Coffee operations, overlooking spectacular Kealakekua Bay. Visit the coffee mill museum and roasting center. The visitor center features fresh, 100 percent Kona coffee, roasted on the premise, flavored coffees and a Polynesian cultural center, with arts and crafts, a luau lunch, tour and show, tapa cloth pounding, coconut frond weaving, lauhala weaving and a lava tube.
Volcano Country: Punalu`u Bake Shop
Na`alehu is home to Punalu`u Bake Shop, where the famous Punalu`u Sweetbread is baked daily and distributed throughout Hawai`i. The visitor center on Highway 11 in the center of the town, offers a beautiful rest stop on your way from Kona to Volcanoes National Park, with clean restrooms, a snack shop, outdoor dining, and a tasting center for the sweetbread and other Mauna Loa products. Windows allow you to look in on the bakery in operation, and the aroma of freshly baked Punalu`u Sweetbread welcomes you to this quaint Hawaiian town.
To Hilo: Mauna Loa Visitor Center
Puna is the diversified agricultural center of the big Island and the Mauna Loa Macadamia Nut Visitor Center is located in the district of Puna between Hawai`i Volcanoes National Park and Hilo, just off Highway 11, on Macadamia Road. Driving down this plantation road, see rows and rows of macadamia trees, a macadamia processing plant with viewing windows to the factory where the nuts are cracked, roasted and selected for packaging and for making Mauna Loa macadamia nut candies. The visitor center has an excellent gift shop and coffee bar.
MAUNA LOA | COFFEE |
GUAVA | SWEETBREAD |
MAC NUTS
RECIPES | NUTRITION |
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