Best of Maui County, Hawaii: Haleakala, Road to Hana, Molokai, Lanai, Iao Valley & Post-2023 Lahaina Recovery - A 2026 First-Person Guide
Browse more guides: Usa Hawaii travel | Oceania destinations Best of Maui County, Hawaii: Haleakala, Road to Hana, Molokai, Lanai, Iao Valley & Post-2023 Lahaina Recovery - A 2026 First-Person Guide TL;DR I have circled Maui County three times across six years, most recently spending nineteen days across Maui, Molokai, and Lanai in February 2026, and I keep arriving at the same conclusion: this is the most emotionally complicated archipelago I have ever covered. The land is staggering. Haleakala rises 3,055 metres straight out of the Pacific, a dormant shield volcano whose 30 kilometre wide summit depression holds nine smaller craters and a population of silversword plants that exist nowhere else on Earth. The Road to Hana coils 64 miles along the east coast with 620 curves and 59 single-lane bridges, dropping waterfalls and black-sand coves at almost every pull-off. Iao Valley shoves a 1,226 metre green basalt needle into the central highlands at the site where Kamehameha I w...