Sep 18 2024
Haleakalā National Park’s famous bamboo forest is one of the most memorable hiking experiences on Maui. Towering green bamboo surrounds a raised boardwalk, stalks sway overhead, and breezes create an unusual chorus of creaks, knocks, rattles, and hollow clacks as the bamboo moves against itself. The forest lies along the Pīpīwai Trail in the lush …
Sep 17 2024
Haleakalā National Park may be best known for volcanic craters, spectacular sunrises, and the otherworldly summit of Haleakalā, but the park has an entirely different personality on the wet eastern side of Maui. In the remote Kīpahulu District, streams descend from the slopes of the volcano through lush forest, plunge over towering cliffs, and form …
Sep 17 2024
Watching sunrise from Haleakalā is one of Maui’s most famous experiences. Long before daylight reaches the beaches below, visitors climb more than 10,000 feet into the Summit District of Haleakalā National Park, where the first light of morning spreads across volcanic ridges, cinder cones, clouds, and the Pacific Ocean. On a clear morning, the experience …
Jun 21 2024
Haleakalā National Park protects one of the most dramatic elevation changes in the National Park System, rising from the lush Pacific coast of eastern Maui to the 10,023-foot summit of Haleakalā. Within that vertical range, visitors move through tropical coastal vegetation, rainforest, cloud forest, shrubland, high-elevation desert, volcanic cinder fields, and a summit landscape that …
