Description
Some properties you tour. This one you earn. Before there is a home, there is a trail. Three quarters of a mile of two-track, cut and faithfully held by hand since 1975, climbing through 105 acres of East Maui jungle near Nahiku, minutes from the best food trucks on the road to Hana. This is not a driveway. It is a threshold. By the time you reach the top, the world you left at the gate has gone quiet, and you understand that privacy here is not just a feature. It is the entire point. At the base sits a gate, covered parking, and a small office with a phone line, the last tether to the outside before the canopy closes overhead. At the summit stands a humble structure that changes everything about this offering. Remote, rudimentary, honest, and carried on the County Tax Assessor's roll as an improvement, it has been lived in full time by the same tenant since 1975. Nearly half a century of rain on the roof and woodsmoke in the trees, of one person choosing this exact patch of wild ground every single morning. There is no grid water and no grid power, and that absence is not a flaw. It is the proof of what life can be here for the person willing to build it. Recent storms did what storms do in old jungle. They thinned the canopy and let the light fall in. Where the forest was once a closed green ceiling, there are now some natural clearings, sun reaching the floor, the land quietly arranging itself into building sites no surveyor could have drafted. Call it timing. Call it the place offering itself up. This is the first time the property has been offered with the improvement even mentioned. What you are actually acquiring is a storied basecamp on 105 acres, a place you could inhabit while you design and raise the bespoke off-grid home this land has been waiting for, or simply continue the quiet, intentional stewardship that has defined it for decades. This is not for everyone, and it is not pretending to be. It asks for vision, resourcefulness, and the rare appetite to live on your own terms in a wild place. What it returns, the mana, the silence, the long history held in the soil, cannot be manufactured, subdivided, or found anywhere else on this island. It is what legends are made of. The trail has been waiting since 1975. It only ever led to one buyer. Will you be the next? I wonder.
Details
| MLS # | 409929 |
|---|---|
| Listing Type | For Sale |
| Style | House |
| Sub-Type | Resale |
| Status | Pending - Cont. To Show |
| Year | 1975 |
| Days On Site | 70 |
| Listing Provided By | Real Broker | Eric S West |
| Type | Single Family Residence |
Features
| Bed(s) | 1 |
|---|---|
| Bath(s) | 1 Total |
| SQ Feet | 720 |
| Garage | 2 |
| Car Port | Yes |
| Acreage | 105.13 |
| Property View | Yes |
Exterior
| Roof | Aluminum/Steel |
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Parking
| Garage Yes / No | No |
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| Parking Features | Carport, No Garage |
Utilities
| Utilities | Phone Connected |
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Taxes
| Property | 10301 |
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Area Information
| State | HI |
|---|---|
| City | Hana |
| Zip Code | 96713 |
| Area | Maui |
| Subarea | Hana |
| School District | Hana High |
| Elementary School | Hana Elementary |
| High School | Hana High |
| Listing VS Median (in 96713) | |
Price: $1,099,000 low | high Med: $1,495,000 sqft: 720 low | high Med: 517 $ / sqft: $1,526 low | high Med: $2,892 On site: 70 low | high Med: 352 | |
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| State | HI |
|---|---|
| City | Hana |
| Zip Code | 96713 |
| Area | Maui |
| Subarea | Hana |
| School District | Hana High |
| Elementary School | Hana Elementary |
| High School | Hana High |
| Listing VS Median (in 96713) | |
Price: $1,099,000 low | high Med: $1,495,000 sqft: 720 low | high Med: 517 $ / sqft: $1,526 low | high Med: $2,892 On site: 70 low | high Med: 352 | |