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Kauai Mountain Bike Rides and Tours
Kauai bike tours and bike rides are a wonderful way to spend the day outdoors.
Whether your interest in Kauai biking involves mountain biking, bike rides or bike tours on outback biking trails, eco-tour bike rides or bicycle rentals, there are a number of tours that will provide the ideal bicycle tour for you.
For years Haleakala on Maui has been known as the mecca for bicycle tours in Hawaii with it gravity driven coast from the mountain to the sea. In recent years, Kauai has chimed in with its own version of a downhill adventure, this time coasting down through the beautiful Waimea Valley to the ocean below. It’s a shorter trip, and less expensive, but none the less gives you some of the same thrills and excitement of it’s Maui counterpart.
A very popular biking tour which is patterned after the famous Haleakala downhill tours on Maui is the 12 mile canyon to coast downhill bike ride offered by Outfitters Kauai. This fun and exciting bike ride from the rim of the famed Waimea Canyon (often referred to as the Grand Canyon of Hawaii) travels from the 3500' elevation, down 12 miles of smooth winding blacktop all the way to the shores of the blue Pacific.
You'll stop along the way to take pictures and learn about the history, culture and legends of this beautiful area on Kauai. This is a short tour of only about 4 hours or so and has departure in both the morning and the afternoon.
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Kauai Bike Tours - The Waimea Canyon was described by Mark Twain as the “Grand Canyon of the Pacific”. This is truly one of the most spectacular sights on the island of Kauai. The canyon is about 10 miles long and about 3600 ft. deep. A colorful 12 mile long winding road makes its way up to the top of the canyon to a beautiful scenic overlook and this is the area from which you will embark on one of the most memorable bike trips of your life.
