DRIVING THE ROAD TO HANA in Maui, Hawaii - best stops to see waterfalls, a black sand beach & more!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- During my recent trip to Maui, Hawaii, I drove the Road to Hana and made many awesome stops along the way. This drive really is about the journey and not the destination. There are so many beautiful places to pull over and things to see, from cascading waterfalls to red sand beaches, black sand beaches and a bamboo forest.
These are the mile markers for the places I stopped:
22: Pua'a Ka'a Falls
32: Wai'anapanapa State Park (Black Sand Beach)
34: Hana Town / hidden Red Sand Beach
45: Wailua Falls
Last stop: Ohe'o Gulch / Seven Sacred Pools
2: Twin Falls
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We drove this road about 8 years ago and loved it. It is very worth while to buy an audible guide to the road. It gives you various insights to things along the way.
I can see how that would be helpful! There are literally so many places to stop and it's impossible to find them all.
Nicole you are so blessed to be able to be there!!!! 😍🌈🌺🐝 Yes, I could only go once to Hana on the same place and it is beautiful to see on the black sand island, the open sea that is an amazing experience!!! 😉 maybe someday I can be your travel companion so you are not alone.
We drove the Road to Hana a couple of days ago and loved it! Nicole, you did an awesome job of portraying so much of the magic that makes it an unforgettable journey!!
Thanks so much Rod! It was definitely magical and I’m glad you enjoyed my video:) I was definitely inspired by the location
Thank you so much for sharing this!!! I love Maui!!!! 11:11
Me too!! ❤
From talking about shutterstock to travel videos! I can see your content evolved😎 love your videos nicole!
Great video! I enjoy seeing other peoples perspectives during their trip to Maui now. :)
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I live in Hawaii and thought this video would be "touristy," but it wasn't at all. Great job. I truly enjoyed this.
Thanks James! Yeah I try to stay away from tourist traps as much as possible. I lived in Hawaii as a kid too :)
Amazing job!!! Thank you! It really helped me prepare for my trip to Maui! ❤🙏
So glad to hear that! Maui is so beautiful
going there for my honeymoon in December and SO stoked to finally do the road to Hana!! I've been to Maui multiple times but never got the chance to take a day for the whole drive, love the mile markers you wrote down in the bio, super helpful!!
Hey Jordan, that’s awesome - you will have so much fun! There are soo many places to visit on the way, so many choices. Hope you have a lovely honeymoon. 😊
Thanks so much for the awesome tips for the Road to Hana!! The views are beautiful!
Aw thanks! This was by far the best thing I did on Maui. Glad you enjoyed it :)
I love Hana - it is so beautiful there and the journey to it is equally beautiful. Great video Nicole. Mahalo!
Thanks so much! It was definitely my favorite part of my Maui trip. So many wonderful hidden places. ❤️
What a wonderful destination. Thanks for sharing your experience. Adding this to the epic places for epic road trips map!
Oh definitely do! There's so much more I would have loved to see over there... I will have to go back for sure!
Nicole, Great video. We are going back for our third year in a row! First year we stayed in Kihei. Last year and our next trip will be in Lahaina. Our first time to Maui had us hooked! Such an AMAZING part of the country. Great video! I have a couple up but nothing like this! hahaOneNGlen
That is so awesome, I'm excited for you! I was there for 8 days and was in Kiheh for 2, Lahaina for 4 and central Maui for 2. Maybe a little too much moving around but it was fun. I'll be sure to check out your vids :)
It's a great trip. My girl friend and I saw a bull working a whole field of cows on the way.
Very cool! :)
I will also be taking the trip solo and I’m so glad to see a solo female traveler.
Yay! Enjoy your trip:)
this is an excellent review!! THANK YOU SO MUCH
Glad you enjoy it 😊
Thanks for the tip about locking cars. I've watched almost 10 other channels and not one offers that little detail
Yeah car break ins are one of the biggest crimes in Hawaii. Just don’t leave anything in your car when you’re there.
Great video Nicole. Quick question, where do you get the background music for your videos? Keep up the great work!
Thanks David! I get all of my music from EpidemicSound.com 😊
@@NicoleGlass Thank you.
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thanks for this video! very helpful and beautiful! :D
I loved this place! Glad you enjoyed it 😊
You video made me miss Maui so much. Maui is the most beautiful place on earth. One day, when my kids are a little older, I hope to take them there.
Aww thank you, I'm glad you enjoyed it! I'm guessing you lived there? I lived on Oahu as a kid but Maui was definitely beautiful as well :) Will definitely go back!
Same!
Thanks for sharing! Will we see these as we are driving and are able to just pull over ? Or is there some sort of map to know when a waterfall is coming up?
A few of them you may notice (the major ones), but a lot of them you won't. I'd recommend writing down the mile markers before you start driving so that you know where to pull over when you lose cell phone service.
hello! im wondering what other mile markers would you or any in the comments recommend to stop at? I will be visting soon. Thank you.
Hey Roberta, I listed the mile markers for these locations in the description below the video :)
do you think a standard sized sedan can do the road or is a jeep/suv recommended?
If you just go on the regular road to Hana, you can literally drive in anything. It's a flat, normal paved road. If you drive the back road, then you'd need a jeep.
Hi we hard a seven seater SUV , roads are right but people are nice enough to stop for you to give you some room. Good luck it's amazing
The back road is better paved now. Sedan would be preferred since the northern part is very narrow
Ew I’m so glad you said hana has car break ins. After San Francisco i never want that to happen AGAIN >:(
Your thumbnail photos doesn’t look like the road to Hana (looks like it’s on the opposite of the island). 😆 nice photo though.
You caught me... lol. You're the only one that noticed haha.
@@NicoleGlass haha I cheated a little as I am from Maui. Love your work.
Drove Road to Hana last week. Never again. Most terrifying drive of my 40 something life. But I did get suckered into driving the West and North coast a few days later. It wasn't as bad, but it still sucked. You better have patience with others, drive slow, nerves of steel, great brakes and tires as well.
Sorry you didn’t enjoy it ☹️. I truly loved the experience, although it was definitely exhausting. When you leave before sunrise there’s almost no one else on the road, which probably helped in my case.
Nicole Glass yeah we did the full drive. We did not turn around like 95% of the people do. I couldn't imagine driving 6-8 feet from a cliff after sunset. Not wise.
PLEASE dont exploit places that are dangerous to get to and encourage tresspassing!! Many MANY people have died going to Kaihahulu-your promotion to go there is encouraging more deaths!
Hmm, hawaii.com and mauiguidebook.com advertise this beach on their websites. I learned about it from a number of guidebooks, nothing illegal.
I strongly suggest you remove this video due to poor visitors education and trespassing on private property that is also sacred religious sites.
Every place I visited I read about in an official Maui guidebook.
Jordan, you’re a troll!
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I wish me and my family went all the way to the top 😭 me and my sister were so car sick from the drive, but we almost made it and we were only 30 minutes away and we went back, every day I regret not telling my parents that we should’ve just gone all the way because I would’ve loved to see what it looked like and I can’t find any pictures of it and i wish I knew what it looked like 😭
I guess that means only one thing: you have to go back!
I just took the tour bus lol
I'm heartsick. ... I live on the island of O'ahu, Hawaii. I was enjoying every minute of this video until the end, where you showed that van with the smashed in window. It does happen frequently. Some people have no shame. I hope that wasn't your rental. : (
Hi Tana, I lived on Oahu as a kid!
Regarding the smashed car: that was actually my friend's rental, not mine. I was careful not to leave anything in the car, but she was a little bit less careful (she left a makeup bag on the seat... not too smart)!
@@NicoleGlass So heartbreaking. I don't even go shooting in some of the most beautiful places here because I'm afraid either my belongings or my car will be gone if I get too far away from it.
Gorgeous video, though.
Thank you for posting so many incredibly informative and helpful videos, too.
Just something to add, be careful where you hike, a lot of the road are private property and you can get ticketed plus show respect to residents whose property you may be on too!
Good point!! Thanks. Private property should definitely be respected
WOW! Didn't take Maui for being ghetto with the car break-ins SMH
Well, like many tourist places, Maui has its fair share of crime. Mostly car break-ins, from what I can tell.
Gorgeous lady and by herself, shame! Bring a hat, but wear it backwards.
The road to Hana is best experienced if you actually stay in Hana for the night. Slow down and savor the journey. If you do it all in one day, you are hurried and exhausted trying to make it back. A lot of tourists end up hating the drive because of this reason
Yes definitely! If I were to go again, I would definitely spend a night there. I ended up doing the drive there twice during the same vacation, but I left around 4/5 am each time to fit everything in. How long did you stay when you went?
Really good video! Thoroughly enjoyed it! Thank you!
Shit I could take my time I’m moving there
How dangerous can it be driving in that road? I hear there a mile with only 1 lane
There are 2 lanes but bridges are sometimes single-lane. Millions of people make this drive every year, so you'll be fine - just go slow and take breaks
@@NicoleGlass will do thank you
We just got back to our hotel in Ka’anapali after taking the day to do the drive! When we come back I want to leave earlier than we did (we left at 7am), and I would go straight to Black Sanding beach to enjoy an hour or two before the rest of the crowds show up. The water would be a little calmer, and the beach wouldn’t be crowded. Then I would go to the seven pools to enjoy a couple hours there. Then I would come back and hit two or three falls on the way back. We got to Black Sand beach at noon and it was starting to get busy. When we left at about 1:30ish the line of cars trying to get in was insane!
Yeah that’s what I hear! I arrived at Black Sand Beach around 9:30 or 10 am, but I also left at 5 am. If I would do it again, I’d spend the night in Hana 😊
Hi Nicole, Your video is so good. Which month was this drive? We are going to Hana on 30th November and staying overnight at Hana. Do you think the rain would be more intense during this time of the year? I am kind of freaked out about the number of hair pin bend and car break-ins too.
Hi Alok,
It might rain, but Hawaii weather is very unpredictable. A lot of times the rain is followed by sunshine, then it rains, then the sun comes back. If it's just showers I would probably still go. (My video was filmed around November 8, 2018).
Car break ins are only a problem if you leave stuff visible in the car. My friend left a bag on the passenger seat which is why the car was broken into. So leave nothing behind!
The hair pin turns can be a little intense, but if you're staying in Hana then it's way easier because you're not driving back on the same day.
-Nicole
Warning. Don’t drive the Hana Road at night. Poorly mark, very few reflectors at the curbs and bridges and locals like to tail gate and want to run you off the road. Bad experience.
Yikes. I did not drive at night... wouldn't want to!
The Seven Sacred Pools are the pools and waterfalls that you would find heading up that trail inland from the spot that you were at....it is a long hike to see all seven.
Thanks for your comment. I will definitely have to go back and see the spots I missed!
Hi Nicole. Again, love the video. It’s amazing the quality of your images and amazing drone footage. Love Maui already and never been. How did you find it? Photography wise how was it for you? Thankfully you got the hat (cap) back. Most of the times I wear one so might not follow your advise on that 😁.
Love your work and will be finding you on your website and in any other media 😜 best wishes
Hi Pedro, I must have missed seeing this comment earlier but thanks so much for your well wishes and your comment! Maui was such a wonderful place. I lived on Oahu as a kid, but I have never been to Maui until recently. I found the snorkeling on the South Shore to be the best I've ever experienced. Tons of turtles and eels. And of course, photography-wise, it was awesome. (But sometimes extremely windy... not good for drones.)
Keep wearing your hat but make sure to hold on to it if you go to Maui 😉
you sure that last one with the smashed window Van wasn't in San Francisco?
next time you're back on Maui let me know, I'll treat you for lunch at The Braddah Hut Barbecue right after Waianapanapa Black Sand Beach and instead of making a U - Turn, we will drive straight to the backside of Hana through Kaupo, Piilani and Kula Hwy :)
Aloha!
Aww thanks for the kind offer! I hope to return later this year. Have a friend who goes once a year that I might join.
The smashed window was actually right by the Ohai Trail (loved that trail by the way) on West Maui. But I figured I'd incorporate it into this video because I know it also happens along the Road to Hana.
I was joking about the San Francisco :)
@@NicoleGlass but yeah, I love your upload. one of the very best upload about Maui ever.
when I went it was with my family and the waterfall is like 60 something degrees It's cold
Lol yes it's very cold!
nice
Hey Nicole. Great video! Quick question... how was the hike to Wailua falls (the epic waterfall in this video)?
The waterfall was actually just on the side of the road so there was no hike. Maybe a 30 second “hike” 😉
@@NicoleGlass lol I think I can manage that! Thank you
Going next month I can’t wait! How long did you stay? And what did you drive?
Have so much fun!! I only went for 8 days on this particular trip but I would definitely recommend staying longer, I woke up at 5 am every day to fit in as much as possible! I drove the Road to Hana twice, stayed in the south for 2 nights, in the west for 4 nights and in central Maui for 2 nights. All so different but worth it. How long are you going for?
I am going for 7 days I planned on staying in different locations my bf said it’s probably not a good idea but seems like it is I really want to go to the black sand beach did you stay in a hotel? Or Abnb
Im gonna be there tommorow and I dont know exactly what to do
You probably won't have good cell phone service when you get there, so write down the mile markers of the places you want to stop at and then go to those.
Thankyou im already in hana going to lahaina
Good job