The thing to do while on Lanai is rent a Jeep, and crawl up the washboard dirt lane that tops out along the ridge line with wide views across the channel to Maui. The fragrant pine-pungent air up there on the Munro Trail is a living testament to George Munro, the visionary from New Zealand who planted Cook pines all over Lanai at the turn of the century.

(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Hiding Away in Lanai," January 1997, National Geographic Traveler magazine)