BEST OF MAUI 2016: Top Maui Businesses, Restaurants, Bars, Politics, Parks, Activities, Goods, Services Revealed Not sure if you guys have read up on the news lately, but everything’s gone crazy. Especially the 2016 Presidential Election–just, well, wow. Say what you about the fight between Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump and whatever’s left of […]
#MAUITIME BEST OF MAUI 2016: Best Maui Sports Activities Parks and Recreation Revealed
BEST OF MAUI 2016: Best Maui Sports Activities Parks and Recreation Revealed Here are our readers’ votes on the county’s best sports and leisure. We tallied up all of your votes and posted them right here. Here you’ll find Maui’s Best Grom and where you can find the best SUP equipment and what best beaches […]
BEST OF MAUI 2015: Best Maui Sports Activities Parks and Recreation Revealed
Best Maui Sports, Activities, Parks and Recreation Here are our readers’ votes on the county’s best sports and leisure. We tallied up all of your votes and posted them right here. Here you’ll find Maui’s Best Grom and where you can find the best SUP equipment and what best beaches and parks locals love. BEST […]
MauiTime Best of Maui 2014: Best Maui Sports Activities Parks and Recreation
Sports & Leisure Best Fitness Club Photo credit to Sean M. Hower Crossfit State of Mind After personally watching lots people get into the best shape of their lives through this program, it’s no wonder our readers once again chose CrossFit State of Mind as Maui’s best fitness club. Although the intense workouts can be […]
MauiTime Best of Maui 2013: Best of Maui Sports Activities Parks And Recreation
Most people think surfing kind of sums up pretty much everything sports-related in Hawaii, but there’s so much more, like paddling, swimming, yoga… Wait, yoga is a sport? Anyway, this is where you’ll read about our readers’ favorite groms, gyms and beaches to barbecue, because grilling is most definitely a sport. Best Yoga Teacher James […]
BEST OF MAUI 2012: Best Maui Sports Activities Parks and Recreation Revealed
Best Scholastic Athlete Nick Wright Nick Wright can swim. He broke all kinds of Maui County swimming records while competing for Baldwin High School and Seabury Hall High School, as well as the Hawaiian Swim Club (whom he swam with for a few years). This past March, he placed first in the 100-meter fly at […]
BEST OF MAUI 2011: Best Maui Sports Activities Parks and Recreation Revealed
BEST HIKE Bamboo Forest Fifteen minutes in the limelight is so overrated. What’s way better (and what MauiTime readers deem is the isle’s best hike) is a day bathed in chartreuse crepuscular rays you explore the perennial evergreen of East Maui’s “Bamboo Forest.” Early en route to Hana, you can’t miss the spot–rentals and Maui […]
BEST OF MAUI 2010: Best Maui Sports Activities Parks and Recreation Revealed
SPORTS & LEISURE BEST PUBLIC POOL Kihei Aquatic Center The budget crunch has led to reduced hours at all County pools, including Kihei Aquatic (now closed Wednesdays). But at least it’s still open—providing a very alluring, very free option for those days when surf and sand just feel a tad too daunting. There are ample […]
BEST OF MAUI 2009: Best Maui Sports Activities Parks and Recreation Revealed
PUBLIC POOL Kihei Aquatic Center Though Kihei’s very cool, very free pool carried the day (with its West side counterpart placing second), plenty of smart-ass readers logged votes for “the ocean.” We get where you’re coming from—that big, beautiful expanse of salt water is plenty inviting. But sometimes all the sand and tides and unpredictable […]
BEST OF MAUI 2008: Best Maui Sports Activities Parks and Recreation Revealed
BEST SWIMMING BEACH Big Beach Swimming at Big Beach is like a bad relationship—you think that if you can just get past the break, you’ll be fine. The water at Big Beach is calm and placid…on a flat day. Other days you’ll experience the awesome force of Big Beach’s spectacular shore break. On those days […]
BEST OF MAUI 2007: Best Maui Sports Activities Parks and Recreation Revealed
BEST SNORKELING SPOT Black Rock When it comes to snorkeling, the trick is to find a spot where the fish aren’t camera shy and the sea turtles make regular appearances. Our spies tell us this sheltered little nook at the end of Ka`anapali Beach is a hot hang for creatures of the deep that […]
BEST OF MAUI 2006: Best Maui Sports Activities Parks and Recreation Revealed
BEST BEACH TO WATCH BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE Ka’anapali Beach It’s ironic you all chose Ka’anapali as the best place to look at beautiful people, because the last time I was there it was so packed I had to sit next to a fat, bald man who told me to make sure the whale society didn’t […]
BEST OF MAUI 2005: Best Maui Sports Activities Parks and Recreation Revealed
105 BEST CANOE CLUB kihei Contrary to popular opinion, Hawai’i’s official state sport is not surfing. It’s outrigger canoe paddling. And whether you do it for recreation or competition, joining a canoe club can do more for you than working those shoulder muscles. Canoe clubs provide a community of neighbors and visitors who’re generally stoked to […]
BEST OF MAUI 2004: Best Maui Sports Activities Parks and Recreation Revealed
BEST PLACE TO GET MARRIED The beach Oh, the romance of the beach: The mystical ocean and waves, strolling hand in hand in the sand, watching sunsets on beach blankets with your lover. Obviously there are plenty Maui Time romantics out there because the beach got the votes on this ballot. If you’re going to […]
BEST OF MAUI 2003: Best Maui Sports Activities Parks and Recreation Revealed
BEST WAY TO GET AWAY FROM IT ALL AND STILL BE ABLE TO PADDLE BACK Ahhhh, the stressful Maui life is getting to you. The daily grind, the awful commute, the terrible gridlock, screamin’ kids and your nagging wife. When you just can’t take it anymore, send the kids to grandma’s house, and buy two […]
BEST OF MAUI 2001: Best Maui Sports Activities Parks and Recreation
Best Sports and Leisure on Maui Best Free Activity Beach C’mon, you live in Maui for goodness sake, how could it be anything but? Readers voted the beach their #1 destination for free activities and you don’t need me to tell you why, folks. Lots of votes on this one, with “surfing” and “swimming” […]