Utulei
Utulei or ʻUtulei is a village in Maoputasi County, in the Eastern District of Tutuila, the main island of American Samoa.
Utulei or ʻUtulei is a village in Maoputasi County, in the Eastern District of Tutuila, the main island of American Samoa. Utulei is traditionally considered to be a section of Fagatogo village, the legislative capital of American Samoa, and is located on the southwest edge of Pago Pago Harbor. Utulei is the site of many local landmarks: The A. P. Lutali Executive Office Building, which is next to the Feleti Barstow Library; paved roads that wind up to a former cablecar terminal on Solo Hill; the governor's mansion, which sits on Mauga o Alii, overlooking the entrance to Goat's Island, and the lieutenant governor's residence directly downhill from it; the Lee Auditorium, built in 1962; American Samoa's television studios, known as the Michael J. Kirwan Educational Television Center; and the Rainmaker Hotel. Utulei Terminal offers views of Rainmaker Mountain.
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Worth seeing in and around Utulei
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01National Park of American Samoa
The National Park of American Samoa is a national park of the United States located in the territory of American Samoa, distributed across three islands: Tutuila, Ofu, and Taʻū. The park preserves and protects coral reefs, tropical rainforests, fruit bats, and the Samoan culture.
3.2 km · United States national park in American Samoa · Wikipedia - 02Matafao Peak
Matafao Peak is a mountain in American Samoa, on the island of Tutuila. With an elevation of 2,142 feet, it is the highest peak on Tutuila Island.
3 km · mountain in United States of America · Wikipedia - 03American Samoa Senate
The American Samoa Senate is the upper house of the American Samoa Fono. The Senate, like the lower House of Representatives, is a nonpartisan body.
1.2 km · upper house of the American Samoa Fono · Wikipedia - 04Pago Park Soccer Stadium
Pago Park Soccer Stadium is a soccer stadium in Pago Pago, American Samoa. The capacity is 2,000.
2.6 km · soccer stadium in American Samoa · Wikipedia - 05American Samoa's at-large congressional district
American Samoa's at-large congressional district encompasses the entire U.S. territorial region of American Samoa. The territory does not have a voting member of Congress but does elect a delegate who can participate in debates and vote in committees of which they are a member.
2.3 km · at-large U.S. House district for American Samoa · Wikipedia - 06Mount ʻAlava
Mount ʻAlava is the second-highest mountain on Tutuila Island in American Samoa. Its summit has an elevation of 491 meters.
2.4 km · mountain in the National Park of American Samoa · Wikipedia - 07Rainmaker Mountain
Rainmaker Mountain is the name of a mountain located near Pago Pago, American Samoa on Tutuila Island. Rainmaker Mountain traps rain clouds and gives Pago Pago the highest annual rainfall of any harbor.
3.5 km · mountain in American Samoa · Wikipedia - 08Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph the Worker (Fagatogo, American Samoa)
The Co-Cathedral of St. Joseph the Worker is a cathedral of the Roman Catholic Church in American Samoa, a Territory of the United States.
1.1 km · church in American Samoa, United States · Wikipedia - 09Jean P. Haydon Museum
The Jean P. Haydon Museum is a museum in Pago Pago dedicated to the culture and history of the United States territory of American Samoa. It contains a collection of canoes, coconut-shell combs, pigs’ tusk armlets and native pharmacopoeia.
1.1 km · museum in Pago Pago, American Samoa · Wikipedia - 10Old Vatia
Old Vatia is a prehistoric village site on the north side of Tutuila, the largest island of American Samoa. The site is located on the Faiga Ridge, above and southwest of the modern village of Vatia, within the National Park of American Samoa.
3.7 km · prehistoric village site on the north side of Tutuila in American Samoa · Wikipedia
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Getting to Utulei
- Airports
- Pago Pago (PPG), 6 km · Faleolo (APW), 152 km
- Apia → Utulei127 km · quickest by ferry, 9h 28m · $42–134
- Vava'u Island → Utulei598 km · quickest by air, 5h 17m · $220–330
- Wallis Island → UtuleiTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Utulei
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Utulei. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inIf you are joining a package tour, the tour company might be able to arrange this for an extra fee; check with them to be sure.
- Get inThe Faleolo airport in nearby Samoa has wider international connections including Air New Zealand to Auckland in New Zealand, Fiji Airways to Honolulu USA and Nadi in Fiji, Samoa Airways to Maota in Samoa and Pago Pago in American Samoa and Tongatapu in Tonga.
- Get aroundA weekly ferry service from Pago Pago to the Manu’a Islands is provided by government operated excursion boat.
- Get aroundRegular small ferries also offer service to and from the island of Aunuʻu.
From Wikivoyage: American Samoa, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.
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