Best Town To Visit
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Paia
Ahh, Paia–the old sugar mill town on Maui’s North Shore. It’s hard to imagine now that it’s gone, but that mill was in operation for 120 years, from 1880 to 2000. Think about it–when it was first built, Hawaii was a kingdom. Not a state, territory or even republic, but a kingdom. And it lasted all through the coup that toppled that kingdom, the U.S. takeover of that “republic,” WWI and WWII, the Cold War and the entire running of Bonanza, which ran on the NBC television network from 1959 to 1973. Of course, that little town has changed a lot since the days when Bonanza reigned supreme, though the hippies–who flooded the North Shore in the late 1960s–are mostly still there. And while people do indeed live there, the scarcity of parking and commercial elements beyond the intersection of Baldwin Avenue and Hana Highway means that, for most of us, we have to be content with the occasional visit. @apignataro
Paia 29%
Lahaina 21%
Hana 20%
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