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HAINES CRUISES

editor — Sat, 01 Apr 2017 07:24:00 +0000

Sitting near the northern end of the Lynn Canal, this small, laid-back Alaska town is blessedly free of the tourist gloss of neighboring Skagway. Despite the town’s dramatic setting amid the peaks of the Fairweather Mountain Range, few ships come here, partly because it doesn’t have a large deepwater dock. Ships that don’t stop in Haines regularly provide excursions to the town from Skagway, traveling by boat. Haines was established in 1879 by Presbyterian missionary S. Hall Young and naturalist John Muir as a place to convert the Chilkoot and Chilkat Tlingit tribes to Christianity. In 1903, the U.S. military

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Travel to Alaska

editor — Sun, 25 Sep 2016 05:24:00 +0000

Tourism is a major Alaska industry, one that the State Division of Tourism officials feel will flourish and fill in the economic gap left as the supply of oil diminishes. Alaska’s natural beauty will remain even though its salmon and haddock come and go and the price of timber rises and falls. In 1981, 660,000 visitors came to Alaska mostly to revel in its natural beauty and to experience America’s last frontiers. They left something like $434 million while cruising, traveling the few Alaskan highways, fishing, hunting, and viewing scenery as spectacular or more so than any in the world.

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