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Kalako Drive is an approximately 6.5-mile rural highway located on western side of the Hawaiian Big Island.  Kalako Drive begins at Hawaii Route 190 Mile Marker 34 and ascends east along the volcanic slope of Hualalai to an approximate elevation of 4,500 feet above sea level.  The corridor is one of the main throughfares in the Kona Coffee Belt and was developed during the early 1980s.  Part 1; the history of Kalako Drive The coffee plant was brough to the Kona District in 1828 by Reverend Samuel Ruggles.  Ruggles imported Brazilian cuttings which took well to the wet western slopes of Hualalai and Mauna Loa.  By the 1870s quality of Kona District Coffee would be recognized and branded by the local plantation owners.   The so-called Kona Coffee Belt lies at an elevation ranging from 500 feet above sea level to 3,200 feet.  The area is known for consistently receiving more than 60 inches of rain annually amid temperatures ranging from 60F-85F....

Maxon Road is an approximately five-mile rural highway located in the Sierra Nevada foothills of Fresno County.  The corridor begins at Watts Valley Road and extends eastward to Trimmer Springs Road at the Pine Flat Reservoir.  Maxon Road is named after the Maxon's Hotel which used be located on the Kings River near the Trimmer Springs Resort.  The highway corridor begins appearing on maps in the 1920s and was modernized during 1947-1954 amid construction of Pine Flat Dam.   Part 1; the history of Maxon Road The corridor of Maxon Road is named after Maxon's Hotel was located on Trimmer Springs Road next to the site of the Trimmer Springs Resort.  The history of Maxon's Hotel is not clearly documented compared to the Trimmer Springs Resort.  In 1889 Morris Trimmer would develop a resort along the Sanger Log Flume Road (now Trimmer Springs Road).  The Trimmer Springs resort would obtain Post Office Service originally the same year it opened.  B...