Stop 03 · MM 10.5 · Rt 360
Garden of Eden: the rainforest, with name tags.
Twenty dollars for the manicured version of what the road does for free. Sometimes that’s exactly right.
- Marker
- MM 10.5 · Rt 360
- Price
- $20 adult · $10 ages 5–16
- Hours
- Daily 8a–4p
- Size
- ~26 acres
- Time
- 60–90 min
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What the twenty buys
Twenty-six acres of botanical garden where the rainforest gets labeled, curated, and served with peacocks. Paved-ish paths, picnic tables, viewpoints engineered for cameras — including the overlook toward Puohokamoa Falls and the coastline made famous by a certain dinosaur movie’s opening flyover.
Discounts exist for parties of five or more, military, students, AAA, and kamaʻāina — ask at the gate.
Take it or skip it?
First drive, curious about what you’re looking at, traveling with kids or anyone who prefers overlooks to scrambles? Take the hour — it’s the best-organized botany lesson on the route. Repeat visitor, tight schedule, or saving budget for the national park? Skip guilt-free. The road serves rainforest either way; this is the version with captions.
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Written and shot on the route by Shane Perry, Maui resident.
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