A stop-by-stop guide to the Road to Hāna on Maui, covering all the waterfalls, beaches, hiking trails, and cultural sites along the way — with practical advice on what to see, what to skip, and how to travel pono.
A small former plantation town on Maui's North Shore, and the practical starting point for the Road to Hāna. A few blocks of cafes, shops, and surf cu…
A North Shore beach park known for worldclass windsurfing and surfing, with an easy roadside overlook. It's a short detour just past Pāʻia, best treat…
Twin Falls is first and most popular waterfall stop on the Road to Hāna because it's the easiest to reach and provides a curated and user-friendly wat…
Also referred to as the "Bamboo Forest" or "Commando Trail" hike this area features a sequence of waterfalls along the Nāʻiliʻili-haele stream. It's o…
A short rainforest loop just past Mile 9, with a modest picnic shelter at the trailhead. It's a pleasant leg-stretch through dense forest, but the vie…
A privately maintained botanical garden of about 26 acres at Mile 10.5, with graveled paths winding past labeled trees, a duck pond, and overlooks tow…
A small state wayside at Mile 12 that doubles as one of the few proper rest stops on the road. There's a paved lot, restrooms, shaded picnic tables, a…
A rocky, black-sand bay tucked into the sea cliffs around Mile 14. It's pretty and quiet, but the beach is serviced by a rough dirt road that requires…
A free, flat rainforest walk at Mile 16.7, through one of the wetter, denser stretches of forest on the road. It's the best place along the highway to…
A short turnoff just past the Keʻanae Arboretum leads down to a flat finger of black lava rock where a Hawaiian village still farms taro much as it ha…
A small state wayside just past Mile 18 that's easy to drive right past. If you can grab one of the few parking spots, a short stairway climbs to a lo…
Upper Waikani Falls drops into a pool right beside a one-lane bridge around Mile 19.5. It's a striking sight, but there is nowhere safe to park, so th…
Around Mile 20, you may catch a momentary glimpse of Wailua Iki Falls through the foliage as you approach the bridge. There's nowhere to stop or park.…
A small roadside state park a little past halfway to Hāna, featuring a couple modest waterfalls, picnic tables, and restrooms. It's an easy, free plac…
A small, unmarked lava tube near Mile 23, just past Puaʻa Kaʻa that's about 140ft in length. It's a quick stop if you're not claustrophobic, but this …
A set of waterfalls on Hanawī Stream, seen from a historic one-lane bridge near Mile 24. There's no real access to the base - it's a roadside view, be…
An unusual waterfall near Mile 25: instead of looking up at it, you look down on it from the bridge as the stream drops away beneath the road. There's…
A self-guided walk through Kaʻeleku Caverns, a large lava tube off ʻUlaʻino Road past Mile 31. You explore the first third of a mile on your own with …
A National Tropical Botanical Garden built around Piʻilanihale Heiau, the largest ancient temple in Polynesia. The focus here is ethnobotany — the pla…
A state park built around Pa'iloa, Maui's best-known black sand beach, with sea caves, a lava arch, and a coastal trail through native hala. Visitors …
The end of the road for most day-trippers, Hāna is a small, quiet community of around 1,200 people, not a town built for tourists. There is no downtow…
Kaihalulu is a rare and unique crimson cove below the Ka'uiki Head cinder cone, but reaching it means navigating an eroded, crumbling cliff trail. Peo…
A small county beach park on Haneoʻo Road just south of Hāna, backed by the red cinder cliff of Ka Iwi o Pele and looking out to the offshore islet of…
A crescent of gray/tan sand tucked below sea cliffs a few miles past Hāna, Hāmoa is one of the few East Maui beaches where swimming is genuinely feasi…
Marketed in some guidebooks as the "Venus Pool," Waioka is a tidal pool where a stream meets the sea past Hāmoa. It sits behind private land, has take…
A tall, single-drop waterfall a few miles past Hāna that you can see almost from the car. Of the many roadside falls on the route, this is one of the …
A chain of stream-fed pools that step down through a lava gorge to the ocean, in the Kīpahulu District of Haleakalā National Park, about ten miles pas…
A roughly four mile round-trip hike in the Kīpahulu District of Haleakalā National Park that climbs gently past a tall waterfall overlook, a giant ban…
A small mid-1800s stone church on the back side of Maui, past ʻOheʻo in Kīpahulu, best known as the burial place of aviator Charles Lindbergh. It's a …