Golf in Hilo

Hilo is the county seat of Hawaii County and the Big Island's oldest and historically most important city, positioned on Hilo Bay on the wet eastern coast of the island where the combination of Mauna Kea's rain shadow and the trade wind patterns produce one of the rainiest urban climates in the United States. The city's character is shaped by the Japanese American communities that settled during the plantation era, the University of Hawaii at Hilo, the Merrie Monarch Festival that celebrates Hawaiian hula each year, and the extraordinary Hilo Farmers Market. Hilo Municipal Golf Course serves the resident population of a city that identifies more with the working, community-rooted traditions of the island's agricultural past than with the resort economy of the western Kohala Coast.