princess alaska cruise excursions Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/princess-alaska-cruise-excursions Thu, 16 Aug 2018 14:38:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 HAINES CRUISES http://toursmaps.com/haines-cruises.html http://toursmaps.com/haines-cruises.html#respond Sat, 01 Apr 2017 07:24:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=236322 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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