Maui, Hawaiʻi cycling routes
Ride from Pāʻia to Haleakalā, explore Upcountry, and follow Maui’s coast in Everycol.
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Haleakalā: Cycle to the Sun
The longest paved climb on Earth, as the Cycle to the Sun race rides it: from the sea at Pāʻia up Baldwin Avenue through Makawao, by Olinda and Hanamu Roads to the Haleakalā Highway, then the switchbacks of Crater Road through the national park to the summit at 3,055 m.
56.8 km 3,056 m climbingHaleakalā from Kahului
From the airport junction up the Haleakala Highway through the pineapple fields to Pukalani, past Kula Lodge and up Crater Road’s 31 switchbacks to the summit.
55.9 km 3,020 m climbingCrater Road from Kula
From Kula up Kekaulike Avenue to the foot of Crater Road, then 33 km of switchbacks through the eucalyptus, the ranch land and the cloud layer to the cinder summit.
39.3 km 2,220 m climbingHaleakalā Summit to the Sea
Maui’s famous descent: 3,000 m down from Puʻu ʻUlaʻula past the overlooks and Park Headquarters, through Kula and Makawao and down Baldwin Avenue to the beach at Pāʻia.
56.8 km 21 m climbingCycle to the Sun & Back
Pāʻia to the summit of Haleakalā and back down the same road: 115 km with 3,050 m of climbing in one go and the whole descent as the reward.
113.7 km 3,077 m climbingBaldwin & Olinda
Pāʻia to the end of Olinda Road: up Baldwin Avenue past the sugar mill’s old camps and the paniolo town of Makawao, then into the eucalyptus forest to 1,230 m.
20.3 km 1,245 m climbingOlinda & Piʻiholo Loop
From Makawao up Olinda Road under the eucalyptus to Piʻiholo Road, then down its steep, narrow bends past the ranch pastures and back into town.
16.0 km 651 m climbingWaipoli Road
Maui’s steepest paved climb: from the Kula Highway up 20 switchbacks through ranch land and pine to the end of the pavement under Polipoli, 10% for most of the way.
10.5 km 1,035 m climbingKula Highway to ʻUlupalakua
Along the Kula Highway at 1,000 m with the isthmus and West Maui below: from Pukalani through Kula and Kēōkea, past the Sun Yat-sen park to the ʻUlupalakua Ranch store and the winery.
28.0 km 666 m climbingThompson Road & Kēōkea
Upcountry’s favourite back road: from Kula out to Kēōkea, down Thompson Road through the ranch pastures with the whole south coast below and back, then on to Sun Yat-sen Park and home on the Kula Highway.
17.4 km 238 m climbingUpcountry Loop
Makawao, Hāliʻimaile and Pukalani: down Baldwin Avenue to the old pineapple town, along Hāliʻimaile Road through the fields and back up the Haleakala Highway.
16.9 km 381 m climbingHaʻikū Loop
From Pāʻia along the north shore to Haʻikū, up Kokomo Road through the rain-green gulches to Makawao and down Baldwin Avenue to the sea.
28.9 km 548 m climbingPāʻia to Twin Falls
Out of Pāʻia past Hoʻokipa’s windsurfers and turtles to the first waterfalls on the Hāna Highway, and back.
37.6 km 535 m climbingRoad to Hāna
Fifty miles, 600 bends and dozens of one-lane bridges: from Pāʻia past Hoʻokipa and Twin Falls, through the rainforest of Kaumahina and Keʻanae, Halfway to Hāna and Nāhiku to Waiʻānapanapa and the bay at Hāna.
73.8 km 1,329 m climbingKeʻanae Peninsula
From the Kaumahina wayside down to the taro patches and the lava-rock church of the Keʻanae peninsula, then on round the bends to Halfway to Hāna.
11.1 km 214 m climbingHāna Town & Waiʻānapanapa
From Hāna Bay through town to the black sand of Waiʻānapanapa and back past Hasegawa General Store.
11.7 km 157 m climbingHāna to ʻOheʻo
South from Hāna round the Haneoʻo loop past Koki and Hāmoa beaches, under Wailua Falls to the pools of ʻOheʻo Gulch at Kīpahulu.
16.1 km 272 m climbingThe Back Road
The Piʻilani Highway round Haleakalā’s dry south flank: from Kīpahulu past the church at Kaupō, over the lava of Kanaio with Kahoʻolawe offshore, up to the ʻUlupalakua Ranch.
44.4 km 1,200 m climbingAround Haleakalā
The grand tour of East Maui, 170 km: the Road to Hāna from Kahului to Hāna, the back road through Kīpahulu and Kaupō, up to ʻUlupalakua and home along the Kula Highway.
178.1 km 3,381 m climbingWest Maui Loop
Round the West Maui Mountains: Kāʻanapali to Kapalua and Honolua Bay, the Wall out of Honokōhau, the one-lane Kahekili Highway past Nakalele and Kahakuloa to Wailuku, then Māʻalaea, the Pali and Lahaina.
93.5 km 1,171 m climbingKahekili Highway
From Wailuku through Waiehu and Waiheʻe onto the narrow cliff road of the Kahekili, over the ridges to the village of Kahakuloa under its headland.
23.0 km 419 m climbingKapalua & Nakalele
Kāʻanapali’s resorts to Nāpili and Kapalua, past Honolua Bay and up the Wall out of Honokōhau to the blowhole at Nakalele Point.
23.2 km 349 m climbingThe Pali to Lahaina
From Māʻalaea Harbor over the Pali, through the Olowalu Tunnel and along the whale-watching coast past Olowalu and Launiupoko to Lahaina.
27.8 km 130 m climbingKāʻanapali Coast
From Lahaina along the Honoapiʻilani Highway to Kāʻanapali and up the old coast road through Honokōwai and Kahana to Nāpili.
13.3 km 76 m climbingʻĪao Valley
From the shore at Kahului through old Wailuku and up into ʻĪao Valley past Kepaniwai Park to the foot of the ʻĪao Needle.
7.8 km 293 m climbingKīhei Coast
Along the leeward shore from Māʻalaea Harbor past Keālia Pond to Kīhei and down South Kīhei Road by the Vancouver monument, Kalama Park and its whale to the Kamaʻole beaches.
16.0 km 50 m climbingWailea & Mākena to La Pérouse
From the Kamaʻole beaches past Wailea’s resorts to Mākena, the Keawalaʻi church and Big Beach, and on across the 1790 lava flow to the end of the road at La Pérouse Bay.
14.8 km 146 m climbingIsthmus Loop
Across the central valley between the two volcanoes: Kahului to Kīhei on the Veterans Highway past the Puʻunēnē sugar mill, along the shore to Māʻalaea and back by Waikapū and Wailuku.
31.2 km 160 m climbingKahului to Pāʻia
From Kahului Harbor along Kaʻahumanu Avenue and the Hāna Highway, past the airport, Kanahā Pond’s stilts and the old plantation camps of Spreckelsville, to Baldwin Beach and Pāʻia town.
12.1 km 40 m climbing
Distance, climbing and elevation on this page are measured from Everycol’s simulated route. They can differ from outdoor measurements because of the mapped start and finish, route variant and elevation model.