Kīpahulu is an unincorporated community in the Hāna district of southeastern Maui, Hawaiʻi.

Piʻilani Highway is the only major road in Kīpahulu and all populated areas are located along it.

[citation needed] Coastal villages consisted of housing clusters for extended families (Hawaiian: ʻohana) and included living quarters, cook houses, and sheds used for work, storage, and canoes.

All structures were single story, one room wood-frame buildings with thatched walls and roofs.

In the early 1900s, one of the regular ports of call for the Inter-Island Steam Navigation Company was Kīpahulu.

Kīpahulu Landing allowed growers and ranchers to ship their goods to markets.

[3] The grave of aviator Charles Lindbergh is on the grounds of Palapala Hoʻomau Church.

On January 10, 1969, HNP boundaries were expanded to include the Kīpahulu coastal area of ʻOheʻo.

[6] The Kīpahulu ʻOhana, a non-profit community organization established in 1995 through a co-operative agreement with the park works to revive, restore, and share the practices of traditional Native Hawaiian culture, also conducts cultural tours.