Even if you don’t need a thing, drop in here. This Maui institution is made famous in an eponymous song by Paul Weston. The shelves hold life’s necessities from electric light switches, pipe joints and Hana-grown lettuce, to cold drink holders in the shape of aloha shirts and Hana Highway guidebooks. The folks who work here are super friendly and...

Workers from the Maui Land and Pineapple Company used to eat their lunch on the porch of Honolua Store. Today Kapalua Resort employees do the same, but so do tourists who stay at Kapalua Villas, nearby upscale Ritz-Carlton or Montage, or elsewhere on West Maui. No wonder. Who could resist sweet bread French toast or the local favorite, gut-busting loco moco...

Visiting Hui No‘eau Visual Arts Center is more than a stop at an art gallery. It’s a chance to see how the other half lived. The center is housed in the 1917 plantation estate home of Harry and Ethel Baldwin, descendants of missionaries and the “first family” of Hawaiian sugar. Architect C.W. Dickey designed the Mediterranean-Hawaiian stucco mansion. He’s famous...

Think flea market crossed with food stall and souvenir stand and you’ve got Kalama Village. Several aisles fill this covered market that is much larger than it appears from the street. More than 40 vendors crowd stalls, nooks and crannies under the soaring roof. Meander up and down and you’ll find trinkets and resort wear, much of it imported from...

Maui Crafts Guild has a new home, a prominent Pa‘ia corner with expansive windows. The gallery used to be in the two-story plantation style building and then a tiny yellow store across the street. Maui’s only artist-owned cooperative offers the work of about 25 artisans who turn out an amazing variety of work. Ceramics, wood objects, glass, fiber, prints, jewelry...

Take 300 Hawaiian artists and give them four galleries in which to exhibit, and you have some idea of the variety and breadth you’ll find at the Maui Hands locations. This might sound like big business, a chain even, but this is a grassroots endeavor from artists and artisans to owner. The Pa‘ia location seems to be the most spacious,...

You haven’t fully experienced Maui unless you’ve visited this market, exposition, community gathering and social event crammed into a few hours every Saturday. Vendors come from all over the island to sell pineapples, papayas, lettuce, estate jewelry, lilikoi butter, Tahitian pearls, ‘ukeleles, bikinis, orchids, bonsai trees, aloha shirts, crackseeds, nose flutes and Pele’s hair. The latter is something like Spanish...

Queen Ka‘ahumanu Center, not far from Kahului Airport, is the place to go if you’ve forgotten to pack your swimsuit or cell phone charger, if you need to get your nails done or buy new luggage. Maui’s largest mall is an an enclosed modern shopping complex that would look at home in California or Connecticut. Two Macy’s and Sears stores...

Herding goats may not be what you expect to do on Maui. But if you take the last tour of the day at Surfing Goat Dairy, you’ll get to coax the bovines into the barn. Here the keeper milks them. She does a nimble dance as she connects milking machine to udder with one hand and quickly fills a feed...

You can get to the Turnbull Studios and Sculpture Garden by driving northwest from Kahului on Kaheliki Highway. Just after the road gets seriously narrow, you’ll find them on the right. This is the easy way. Or you can come in the opposite direction from West Maui through Kahakuloa. It will take you considerably longer. The road may cause you...

Whalers Village, at the heart of Ka‘anapali Beach, offers the chance to shop in more than 90 stores. And when you’re ready to drop, you cab  dine in fine restaurants or a food court. And it’s only steps from the beach. The three-level mall, laced with fountains and flowers, saves its best real estate for the restaurants, which sit right...