14 Kauai beaches with toilets and parking both within 250m of the sand, ranked by what else is there for a day with children.
14 of the 34 Kauai beaches here clear both bars — toilets and parking each within 250m — and the top 14 are ranked below. 5 of the qualifying beaches also have a playground mapped nearby, and 4 have a lifeguard station on the map. Nothing here should be read as a beach being safe or supervised; check conditions on arrival.
To appear at all, a beach needs mapped toilets within 250m and mapped parking within 250m — the two things that decide whether a day out with small children works. Beyond that, playgrounds, picnic tables, showers, drinking water, a park behind the beach and a mapped lifeguard station move a beach up. We never state that a beach has NO lifeguard: only 6% of Hawaii's beaches carry the tag either way, so silence means unknown, not unpatrolled. Never assume a beach is patrolled.
parking 27m from the sandtoilets 148mshowersdrinking waterplaygroundpicnic tables
parking 82m from the sandtoilets 43mshowersdrinking waterplaygroundpicnic tables
parking 36m from the sandtoilets 40mshowersplaygroundpicnic tablesBBQ
parking 37m from the sandtoilets 49mshowersdrinking waterplayground12 places to eat within 1km
parking 94m from the sandtoilets 54mshowersdrinking waterlifeguard station mapped912m long
parking 195m from the sandtoilets 142mplayground12 places to eat within 1km759m long1 bus stops within 500m
parking 33m from the sandtoilets 27mshowers994m long
parking 36m from the sandtoilets 50mdrinking water8 places to eat within 1km485m long
parking 58m from the sandtoilets 48m4 places to eat within 1km455m long
parking 66m from the sandtoilets 56m410m long
parking 69m from the sandtoilets 53m892m long
parking 73m from the sandtoilets 78mshowers3,764m long
parking 40m from the sandtoilets 54m3,943m long
parking 87m from the sandtoilets 162m12 places to eat within 1km54m long
Facilities, parking and shoreline data come from OpenStreetMap, and a beach can only be ranked on what somebody has mapped — "not mapped" is not the same as "not there". Distances are measured to the nearest point of the beach itself.