Kahua Ranch

It is impossible to reach out to those guys. I left couple of messages, called a lot-​nothing. You should be more responsive to your clients

The Sunset Dinner at the ranch was so much fun. After many years of lovely luau’s elsewhere, this paniolo experience was terrific. Great food, country music and line dancing and lots of cowboy activities. My branded shingle is proudly on my wall back here on the mainland. Oh, when you sign up for the event, pay the little bit extra for the round trip transportation… that way you can enjoy your wine and beer and get back safely.

Kahua Ranch also has something I’ve been tickled to refer to as a Hawaiian ho-​down. They have a ranch bbq with great steak, chicken, and fixins, beer, wine, and soft drinks, and macadamia pie for dessert. The live entertainment was great and involved the audience quite a bit. Other activities included branding practice, s’mores, a horse and big old pet pig that you could feed and interact with. Roping practice rounds out the evening nicely, guided by the John, the owner’s son, and a big, loud, nice guy. Everyone was friendly, helpful, and seemed happy to be there. We drove, after exploring the north end of the island, but most people took the bus right from their resorts.
Highly recommended, good food, lots of information about Hawaiian Cowboy, or Paniolos, and how they made their place in Hawaiian history.

It’s a long way up but a beautiful way. It takes about 30 minutes at least to drive to the ranch from the bottom. It’s a bit windy and beware you may come across some roadblocks, horses! Horses who like to meet in the middle of the road and don’t move. We were on our way to the ranch for a wedding and couldn’t be late since the gates closed at a certain time. Luckily, the guy behind us one how to wrangle the horse to get them out of the way. Along the way there were magnificent views, stubborn horses as previously said, sheep and plenty of cows with some mean RBF haha.
This is totally worth the drive up here. On a side note, be careful when you feed the horses grass. Make sure you feed them long pieces. I fed a horse grass that was short and almost lost my finger in the process. It wasn’t his fault, he was just hangry.
We went to wedding here and it was breathtaking. The rolling hills, the beautiful sunset, the cool weather. It was a perfect backdrop for the rustic wedding. Very shabby chic.
Be careful driving down, there’s no lights. Luckily, we had no animal roadblocks on the way down.