Kahului, Maui's deep-water port, is home to nearly a third of the island's resident population and busy with shipping traffic. Less than a landing strip away from Maui's main airport in Kahului, the Kana Beach County Park is rated one of the best places to learn how to sailboard in the world. Kahului's city center boasts such home-town amenities as shopping malls and the Alexander and Baldwin Sugar Museum. Watch for sugarcane fields on the drive out of Kahului. The city is 20 miles—a 45 minute drive—east of Lahaina around Puu Kukui, at 5,788 feet the highest peak in the West Maui Mountains.
