Bicycle Routes

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Mauna Lani Adventure I

        - From Big Island Motorcycle Co. find the King's Trail on the far north end of resort, just east of the Waikoloa Colony Villas. Warning: this trail is extremely bumpy and difficult to navigate, you must walk the bikes over the trail portion of this route and be able to occasionally lift the bike over large rocks. You must be up for adventure if you decide to follow this route!
      - Walk the bikes over the King's Trail until you reach the gate and the bridge, pictured above, where you will be able to cross over on to the pavement. This took us about 15 minutes. Take your next right, then the following right and continue until you reach a large roundabout. 

      - Go around until you see the "Shops at Mauna Lani" sign. This is a good place to stop and get drinks, snacks, or lunch. There are several good restaurants, including the Tommy Bahama Cafe, and a great gourmet deli inside the grocery store. We really liked this shop called Oasis, lots of fun housewares, clothes, and jewelry. You can lock the bikes up at the rack near the grocery store.

       - Heading west out of the shopping center (away from the roundabout) take a left onto the road toward the spa. On your right side you will see a parking lot, public bathrooms, and paved trail with signs that say
"Caves and Petroglyphs." You can ride the bikes on this trail but please yield to pedestrians. We found this cool cave, but didn't see any petroglyphs, maybe we didn't look hard enough. In any case, there is another very cool petroglyph trail on the other side of the resort which I will cover in the next route. 

       - This paved trail will lead all the way down to the beach where you will enjoy riding around the picturesque brackish ponds with little palm tree islands. Feel free to explore the beaches, all beaches in Hawaii are open to the public. 

      - After enjoying a little rays, head to the beach on the south side of the resort, where the boat is moored and there is a little cafe and dive gear rental. There is a narrow paved trail on the south end of this beach that follows the coast line. Take this trail, but be sure to yield to pedestrians.
      - This portion of the trail offers panoramic ocean views, we can see why they named it "Meditation Point." 
      - This trail quickly turns into a bumpy lava rock section (walk the bikes over this part), then eventually takes you onto a golf course where you will need to follow the golf cart track until you can get back onto the road, to your left, which is actually a small subdivision. Once in the subdivision, head toward the right until you reach the gate (opens automatically to let you out). Take a right onto the main road.
      - To get back to Big Island Motorcycle Co., take a right on Na La Hele Rd (you will recognize it as the way you came in). The just go back the way you came, over the bridge...
      - The Map below shows driving directions to the Shops at Mauna Lani from Big Island Motorcycle Co. You can go this way if you are not up for braving the King's Trail (it's really pretty tough). 

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