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Do you like picnics? Or sunsets? How about jaw-dropping views? Rice Park is your place!
THE NAME: The 3.8 acre park is named after Harold W. Rice (1883-1962), a former republican who later turned democrat territorial senator & chairman of Maui County. Among his other achievements, he helped with the planning of the Maui Memorial Hospital and turning the Kahului Airport from navy control into a commercial airport. After Rice's death, the park was donated to the Kiwanis Club by his son Harold F. Rice, AKA "Oskie". The Kiwanis in turn donated the park to the County of Maui.
THE PARK: The sliver of land is surrounded by Kula Highway and Lower Kula Road, so the constant whizzing of cars going by ruins the serenity. A small parking lot can handle about a dozen vehicles. It has three unofficial sections, all with unobstructed views of Maui's south and north shores and the island of Lanai in the distance from its 2,500 foot elevation on Mt. Haleakala. There are picnic tables, grills and restrooms. The park's hilly terrain has been a magnet for kids and kids-at-heart who use flattened cardboard boxes to slide down the grassy knolls. Be careful though as you might hit the railings at the end, or go through them and end up on Kula Highway.
OVERALL: It's not everyday you can experience a park that's high in the sky....
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Bring cardboard. The old-timers know that if you bring cardboard you can sled down the steep hills.
If sledding isn't your thing it has tables to eat at, and clean bathrooms (they even have soap!). It is breezy and has lots of shade trees. There are chickens in the area that might come up to you if you are eating which may be a positive or negative. There is lots of parking.
Great park...
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This park is very small and if you are coming to lay on the grass, is probably not that enjoyable. However, during a drought, you will see a large amount of people arriving here with cardboard boxes. It is the sovereign equivalent of sledding. No snow? Just wait for the grass to dry and slide down a dried out grassy hill. Man,...
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