Ellison's energy point man for Lanai helped turn California school into self-sustaining campus. Audrey Mcavoy, Associated Press. Tue, September 10, 2013 at 1:14 AM UTC.

What really pushes the privately owned island beyond the ordinary is the new Four Seasons Lana’i, it’s why we declared Lanai one of the top destinations to travel to in 2016.Fresh off of a ...

To a point. “We don’t want another Oahu. ... Lanai Air offers what it calls an “elevated experience” and connects Hawaii Island, Maui, Lanai and Oahu. Flights are about $250 one way.

Before Lanai metamorphosed into a playground for the moneyed, ... the muddy Munro Trail climbed to the top of the 3,370-foot mountain called Lana'ihale, the highest point on Lanai.

Off Lanai, is an 80-foot-tall islet called Puupehe, ... is on the southwestern point of Lanai at an 80-foot-tall islet called Puupehe (translated to “Pehe’s Hill”).

Dole turned Lanai into a gigantic farm that at one point produced 75 percent of the world’s pineapples. In the 1980s, David Murdock bought Lanai when its operations were on the brink of bankruptcy.

But Lanai has 400 miles of dirt roads, a vestige of the island’s plantation days. ... You’ll find the trail to the Kukui Point petroglyphs just beyond the signature Shipwreck Beach sign.

LANAI CITY >> An orange tomato is oh-so-close to making the cut. Japanese cucumbers have qualified, and so have a variety of lettuces along with plum, cherry and beefsteak tomatoes.