Paia Inn: Windsurfing

Maui is the world's best windsurfing destination, with its steady trade winds, warm, clear waters and great surf. And Maui's best windsurfing takes place on Maui's North Shore, all around Paia.

Ho'okipa Beach Park

Ho'okipa is windsurfing's Mecca, the destination of choice for windsurfers from all over the world, and home to the most demanding international windsurfing contests, such as the perennial Aloha Classic.

What makes Ho'okipa such a good windsurfing beach is the combination of steady strong trade winds and awesome winter surf.

Here you will find the best windsurfers in the world having the time of their lives! Robby Naish, the Pritchard brothers, Pete Cabrinha, Brian Talma, Michi Schweitzer, and many more world- renowned windsurfers make Ho'okipa their home break.

Ho'okipa is only a couple of miles up the coast from the Paia Inn.

Sprecklesville

Another excellent windsurfing beach near the Paia Inn is Sprecklesville.

Sprecklesville is a favorite beach for many intermediate and advanced windsurfers that enjoy its white sand beach, easily accessible surf and uncrowded conditions.

Sprecklesville is a short drive from the Paia Inn.

Kanaha Beach Park

Arguably the best place in the world to learn to windsurf, Kanaha Beach Park is the destination of choice for most of Maui's windsurfers, as well as most of the windsurfing visitors.

This lovely beach park has all the amenities and features you could want in a world-class windsurfing beach: great wind, warm, clear water, excellent surf, an extensive wave-free area inside the reef, green lawns, paved parking, lots of shady trees, bathrooms. picnic tables, BBQ rings, bathrooms and showers.

Kanaha Beach Park is the place to go if you need instruction - all of Maui's world-renowned windsurfing schools offer their lessons there.

Kanaha Beach park is a ten minute drive from the Paia Inn.