Hawaii · RedAwning

MolokaiThe Friendly Isle — Halawa Valley, Papohaku Beach, and the highest sea cliffs in the world, with no traffic light on the island

The least-visited main Hawaiian island — Halawa Valley and Mooula Falls on the east end, the three-mile Papohaku Beach on the west, the Kalaupapa sea cliffs (the tallest in the world) on the north shore, and Kaunakakai, a plantation town with no stoplight and no high-rise.

20+Vacation rentals
3,600+Sea-cliff height (north shore ft)
82°FAverage year-round high
Year-roundBest season

A Hawaii microsite

Welcome to MolokaiThe Friendly Isle. Halawa Valley on the rainy east end, the three-mile Papohaku Beach on the dry west, the Kalaupapa peninsula below the world's tallest sea cliffs, and a Kaunakakai main street where Kanemitsu Bakery still sells hot bread out the back door at night.

Molokai runs from the lush, waterfall-cut east end at Halawa to the dry, dune-backed west end at Papohaku and Kaluakoi, with Kaunakakai and the airport town of Hoolehua in the middle. It is the most rural of the main islands — the highest percentage of Native Hawaiian residents, the south-shore fishponds still in use, and a pace that has nothing to prove.

Our Molokai rentals cluster around Kaunakakai and the west-end Kaluakoi area — cottages near the harbor and Kapuaiwa Coconut Grove, condos a short drive from Papohaku and Kepuhi Beach, and quiet east-end homes on the road to Halawa. Expect a kitchen, a lanai, and a rental car as standard; this is a stock-up-and-cook island, not a room-service one.

Molokai stays