SUSPENDED! Maui Bike Tours

March 2008 Update: Park Superintendent Marilyn Parris announced that the moratorium of commercial downhill bicycle rides in Haleakala National Park will continue pending a full evaluation of all impacts from the activity.

The Board of Review found that the in-park commercially guided downhill bicycle tours, as managed prior to October 10, 2007, posed an unacceptably high risk to park visitors.

The park staff had compiled 10 volumes of reports, comments and data, with each volume containing 200 to 300 pages.

October 2007 Update: Following the death of the third cyclist in the last year to die while while riding down Haleakala National Park on a bicycle tour on Crater Road, the national park has initiated a temporary sixty day closure beginning on Oct. 10, 2007.

The stretch of the road within jurisdiction of the national park extends from approximately 10,000 to 7,000 feet at Crater Road.

Commercial tours can operate below the lower level because it is outside of the park’s jurisdiction. They are currently operating limited tours from the park by partnering with some of the bike tour companies not affected by this closure, but prices have skyrocketed and availability is limited.

June 2007 news release on the dangers of biking down Haleakala:

Within the past seven months, a man died of a heart attack after hitting his head during a downhill ride, a woman died after riding off the edge of the road, a bicycle tour leader severely injured his leg and hip when he failed to negotiate a turn and careened into lava rock, and a 13-year-old boy also failed to make a turn and cut up his knee and side.

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