When American Factors (Amfac), the owners of the Pioneer Sugar Mill, decided in 1957 to transform the oceanfront cane fields of KA'ANAPALI into a luxury tourist resort, they established a pattern that has been repeated throughout Hawaii ever since. There had never been a town at Ka'anapali, just a small plantation wharf served by a short railroad from the sugar mill at Lahaina. What Ka'anapali did have, however, was a superb white-sand beach far better than anything at Lahaina backed by a tract of land that was ripe for development and more than twice the size of Waikiki. … more »
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This west-coast community has several nice resorts, an excellent beach and two fine golf courses... more »
Kaanapali stretches along nearly four miles of seductive white-sand beaches and blinding seascapes... more »