The Hana Scenic Highway

Places of interest

Some of the historic and points of interest along the Hana Highway

Landmark: Kahului

Landmark: Pā ia

Landmark: Ho‘okipa Beach Park

Landmark 1.: Huelo

• At Huelo stands Kaulanapueo, a New England Congregational church founded in 1853. Hawaiians built the church from area materials, including large basaltic boulders.

Landmark 2.: Kailua

• It remains the baseyard for East Maui Irrigation Co. Ltd., which maintains 75 miles of ditches and tunnels; the first section was built in 1876.

Landmark: Kaumahina State Wayside

Landmark 3.: Keanae 

• Hawaiians continue to grow taro on the Keanae peninsula and to maintain a Protestant church built in 1860 by their ancestors. The church's beams are made from lehua trees, and coral was used as plaster in the wall construction. Chinese immigrants worked rice fields and a mill here in the early 1900s.

Landmark: Wahikuli Wayside Park

Landmark: Pua'a Ka'a State Wayside

Landmark 4.: Nahiku

• Nahiku was a rubber plantation in the late 1800s.

Landmark 5.: Piilanihale

• Near Nahiku is Piilanihale, one of Hawaii's largest heiau. Stone platforms are reminders of a once-thriving Hawaiian community in the 15th century.

Landmark: Wai'anapanapa State Park

Landmark 6.: Hana

• Hana was the site of a sugar cane plantation and mill, which closed in 1946. The Hotel Hana-Maui, built after the closure, remains the region's only resort.

Landmark 7.: Hamoa and Waimoku Falls

• Beyond Hana, several sites are magnets for visitors: the black sand beach at Hamoa and Waimoku Falls

Landmark 8.: Kipahulu

• You find the pools at Ohe'o at Haleakala National Park and aviator Charles A. Lindbergh's grave.

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