Tag: Haines

“The smell of cedar hits you in the face when you walk in the door.”

Almost 800 miles by road from Anchorage, located at the top of the Lynn Canal at the top of Alaska’s Inside Passage, Haines began life as a summer fish camp for the Tlingits who lived in Klukwan, about twenty miles up the road from Haines. Naturalist John Muir showed up in 1879, and along with…

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No, not that Hammer.

One of the greatest little museums ever, worth the trip to Haines all by itself. Make sure they show you the Tlingit war hammer they found when they were digging out the foundation for the building, too.

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