Parks and Recreation

If you’d like to hit the beach while you are in Honolulu, but you’re a wheelchair-user or slow walker, rest assured it’s still possible. Thanks to the Department of Parks and Recreation, beach mats and beach wheelchairs are available at many Honolulu beaches.

The hard plastic beach mats make it easy for wheelchair-users and slow walkers to navigate over the soft sand. And if you’d like to pave your own way, the beach wheelchairs make that possible too. The beach wheelchairs have three balloon tires, and have a weight capacity of 300 pounds. They are available on a first-come basis, in two-hour increments. It’s important to note that the beach wheelchairs cannot be self propelled, so you must bring along a companion to push you around the beach.

The following locations have beach mats and beach wheelchairs.

Beach Mats

• Waimea Bay Beach Park
• Ehukai Beach Park
• Waimanalo Bay Beach Park
• Sans Souci Beach at Kaimana Beach Hotel
• Kuhio Beach Park
• Hale’iwa Ali’i Beach Park
• Hunananiho

Beach Wheelchairs

• Kualoa Regional Beach Park
• Hanauama Bay Nature Preserve

Beach Mats & Beach Wheelchairs

• Kailu Beach
• Ala Moana Beach Park

For more information about the Honolulu beach wheelchairs and beach mats, visit www.honolulu.gov/dpr/therapeutic-recreation-beach-wheelchairs/. That site also has a helpful map of all the beach mat and beach wheelchair locations. So get ready to enjoy the sand and surf on your next Honolulu trip.