Overview
About Hanawi Falls
Heads up
- No parking at Hanawi Bridge for a closer look
Map
Where it is
The highest, rockiest slopes around here are a summer buffet for grizzly bears.
Road to Hana Tour Guide
Your drive to Hanawi Falls, narrated.
Parkwolf is a GPS audio tour guide for Road to Hana. As you drive, it chimes in with what’s ahead: hidden gems, upcoming stops, history, geology, and wildlife, right through your car’s speakers.
See the Road to Hana audio tourRecorded for this place
Hanawi Falls: A Passing View“You're approaching Hanawi Falls, a cluster of cascades framed by rainforest at the highway bridge. The stream is spring-fed, so there can still be water falling here in drier summer months.”
Plays as you drive up to Hanawi Falls in the Parkwolf Road to Hana Tour Guide.
More stories near here in the app
- Puaʻa Kaʻa’s Rainforest Break
- Nāʻhiku’s Rubber Venture
- Hala: Leaves for Weaving
- Upper Waikani’s Three Cascades
- 48 audio storiesacross Road to Hana’s roads, triggered by GPS as you drive
- Wildlife heatmapsfor Hawaiian Monk Seal, Green Sea Turtle, Frigatebird, and 13 more
- Works offlinemaps, 13 trails, 39 places, and audio download before you lose signal
- CarPlay readysimple controls built for the drive
“Fantastic app with many points of information… It’s great to just turn on while you’re driving and it gives you an audio tour of the national Park. We love it!!!!”
Guide
More about Hanawi Falls
A quick look from Route 360Hanawi Falls is a group of cascades on Hanawi Stream beside Hana Highway, near mile marker 24.
Hanawi Falls is a group of cascades on Hanawi Stream beside Hana Highway, near mile marker 24. The water is framed by dense rainforest at the bridge crossing. Treat it as a brief drive-by view, not a stop to plan around.
Keep moving over the bridgeHawaiʻi DOT lists Hanawi Bridge as a no-parking location.
Hawaiʻi DOT lists Hanawi Bridge as a no-parking location. Don’t stop on the bridge or shoulder to look or take photos. Public access to the pools below isn’t verified, so don’t plan on descending or swimming.
A spring-fed streamHanawi Stream is spring-fed, so the falls can remain visible in drier summer months.
Hanawi Stream is spring-fed, so the falls can remain visible in drier summer months. Rain can change the flow noticeably and alter the cascades’ look.
Wildlife
Wildlife in Road to Hana
10 sightingsHawaiian Monk SealMost seen around 11 AMSighting map
127 sightingsGreen Sea TurtleMost seen around 5 PMSighting map
86 sightingsFrigatebirdMost seen around noonSighting map
17 sightingsRed-footed BoobyMost seen around 6 AMSighting map
73 sightingsNene (Hawaiian Goose)Most seen around 6 AMSighting map
58 sightingsHawaiian StiltMost seen around 8 AMSighting mapSighting maps show where each species has been reported across Road to Hana. Wildlife moves, so no sighting is guaranteed.
