Twin Falls Hana Maui Ceramic Art Tile
— — the green the rainforest keeps.
Not only on a wall.
“The first waterfall stop on the road to Hana. A bamboo path through Wailele Farm leads to a pair of cascades on Ho'olawa Stream, one short and full near the entrance, one taller a steeper walk upstream, each falling into its own pool. Most people stop here in the morning, before the rain comes through, and forget to plan how long it takes to drive the rest of the road. The water is cold even in August. The canopy holds the sound in.
Twin Falls Hana Maui Ceramic Art Tile, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.
Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.
The place, in three passes.
Twin Falls sits near mile marker 2 of Hawaii Route 360, the Hana Highway, on the windward coast of Maui in the Huelo district east of Pa'ia. The stop is the first of dozens along the roughly 64-mile drive to the town of Hana and crosses the Ho'olawa Stream watershed inside Wailele Farm, a privately owned working farm. Public access is maintained by the farm, which asks visitors to use the marked path past the fruit stand at the parking turnout. The falls themselves are a pair of cascades on Ho'olawa Stream, descending out of the rainforest of East Maui, where annual rainfall on the windward slopes of Haleakalā reaches some of the highest totals in the United States.
Ho'olawa Stream rises on the windward slope of Haleakalā, the 10,023-foot shield volcano that forms East Maui, and falls through several drops on its way to the Pacific. The two main cascades give the stop its name. The lower falls feed a wide pool a short walk from the parking turnout; the upper falls drop further, into a deeper pool reached by a rougher path past a bamboo grove. Both run continuously, but swell quickly after rain on the upper slopes, and stream crossings can become impassable within minutes. The water carries volcanic sediment and reads dark green in the shaded pools, lighter under direct sun.
Twin Falls sits on Wailele Farm, a privately owned working farm in the Huelo district that has long stewarded the falls and the trails leading to them, providing public access by arrangement with the owners. There is no entrance fee; a parking donation is requested at the marked turnout near mile marker 2 of Route 360. The walk to the lower falls takes roughly 10 minutes; the upper falls add another 20 minutes of rougher trail and one or two stream crossings. The farm's fruit stand at the entrance sells coconut, banana bread, and fresh juice. The trail closes before sunset and is best visited early, both for the light through the canopy and to leave time for the rest of the Hana Highway, which can take four to six hours to drive one way.