altitude: Buying a home on Maui - what's the elevation at this property?
- 11/12/13 09:12 AM
Buying a home on Maui - what's the elevation at this property? When buying and selling homes or land on Maui, one of the questions that comes up quite often is something like this... "What's the elevation here?". Because Maui real estate can be anywhere between sea level or 4,000' it's a good question. Even oceanfront homes aren't always at sea level. Along the north shore there are cliffs that drop a couple of hundred feet straight down to the water. How high is high enough to be safe from a tsunami, anyway? The range of altitude is significant in some (5 comments)
Going camping on Maui - the wilderness cabins in Haleakala crater Maui is not really geared to the camping and backpacking crowd, like some other parts of the world, but there are a few places where you're welcome to camp. One of those places is inside the crater up at Haleakala National Park. That's the very top of the mountain over here! The park has 3 wilderness cabins which can be reserved in advance: Holua; Paliku; and Kapalaoa. Each one has it's own unique location and they are well separated, and can only be reached by footpath. The cabins come equipped with (8 comments)