HANA, Maui — Growing up in Hawaii, I would chuckle if someone were to ask me for a "pristine and uncrowded" place to visit in the islands. That's because you'd be hard-pressed to find it.

These have an ocean view and they are only 8 miles from the famous Seven Sacred Pools (Oheo Gulch.) And if you are up for a splurge, book a night at the rustic (yet chic) Hana-Maui Resort.

Cars cruise along the road to Hana ... along the Puka Maui trail, which takes hikers down the mountainside to a series of tide pools and a cove. There, people swim across to view a large ...

Sharael Kolberg Topping many Maui visitor's to-do list is driving the Road to Hana. Sounding like a mythical journey, Hana is an actual town on the scenic highway (Highway 360). Traveling along ...