{"id":44983,"date":"2025-07-29T11:44:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T11:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/44983\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T11:44:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T11:44:20","slug":"park-in-hilo-set-to-reopen-after-being-closed-for-renovations-big-island-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/44983\/","title":{"rendered":"Park in Hilo set to reopen after being closed for renovations : Big Island Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>   July 28, 2025, 3:00 AM HST  <\/p>\n<p>Wai\u0101kea Uka Park in Hilo is reopening this week with new amenities.<\/p>\n<p>The County of Hawai\u2018i Department of Parks and Recreation will host a reopening and blessing ceremony on Tuesday at the park, located at 1200 Ainaola Drive. Renovations included a new community center, walking path and more onsite parking were added.<\/p>\n<p>The park now also has a reoriented ballfield with a new dedicated comfort station, dugouts, concession building and scorekeeper\u2019s booth.<\/p>\n<p>The event goes from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and there will be games, arts and crafts activities, and refreshments.<\/p>\n<p>ARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW ADARTICLE CONTINUES BELOW AD <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 28, 2025, 3:00 AM HST Wai\u0101kea Uka Park in Hilo is reopening this week with new amenities.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[5375,5376,192,5379,3714,6160,79,35669],"class_list":["post-44983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-big-island-news","tag-big-island-now","tag-environment","tag-hawaii-county","tag-parks-and-recreation","tag-renovations","tag-science","tag-waiakea-uka-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}