Can You Survive Mauis Wild, Winding, Wonderful “Road to Hana”?
Considered one of the nation’s most scenic highways, and one of Maui’s major tourist attractions, the Hana Highway was designated a National Millennium Legacy Trail in 1999 and much of the roadway was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. This notoriously narrow, winding coastal road offers a thrill for visitors with panoramic views, 600 hairpin turns and 54 one-lane, historic bridges and was carved by hand using pickaxes and man power. The mud-and-gravel road was often subject to landslides and washouts, hence the saying “I survived the Road to Hana”. The road was eventually paved in 1962, when tourist traffic began to increase. Today more than 1,000 cars traverse the road daily; that equals about 500,000 people a year on this road! Relatively isolated from the development on most of Maui, Hana, and the “long & winding road” that lead there offers picturesque views, bamboo forests, rugged coastline and hidden waterfalls that many only dream of. Be sure to allow ti
