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Originally Posted by Redlemon
We were staying with my wife's friend, who had spent two years on the island. When we made it to the end of the Road to Hanna, she asked someone if the back road was passible. The answer was yes, so we just kept going.
This was stupid. You really need 4 wheel drive back there, and we were in a rented Ford Escort. The sun went down, there were no lights, there was no guardrails between us and a cliff drop into the water, the place looks like a moonscape with feral cows wandering around, seriously, it is just weird. Go back the way you came.
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I'm gonna step up and say that I disagree here. I went the whole way around in a regular rental and had a blast! In fact it was one of the best memories of that trip. Feral cows are cool.
And the backside view of Haleakala is absolutely stunning. I think your fatal mistake was to do it in the dark -- I can definitely see that being a huge problem. But otherwise it really isn't that bad. Or at least, wasn't that day (this was in 2002). I could see maybe current or recent weather affecting the state of the road. I should add that the instructions in the "Maui Revealed" book that I mentioned above were totally vital in pulling it off.