Editing Haines, Alaska (section)

==Attractions==
{{see also|National Register of Historic Places listings in Haines Borough, Alaska}}
[[File:Haines Winter Postcard.jpg|thumb|600px|right|Haines in the winter]]

Many tourists visit during when there is an annual appearance of [[bald eagle]]s in the [[Alaska Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve]] between October and February. Haines has the largest concentration of bald eagles in the world at that time.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://dnr.alaska.gov/parks/aspunits/southeast/chilkatbep.htm|title=Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve|website=dnr.alaska.gov}}</ref> Each May, Haines holds Alaska's longest running beer festival with over 1,500 visitors and breweries from Alaska and Yukon. 

Haines is the host of the Southeast Alaska State Fair, with four days of festivities on the last weekend of July. Vendors, games, rides, and a music festival bring people from all over Alaska for this event. The community and surrounding area are popular for outdoor recreation. Rafting in the [[Chilkat River]] and hiking in the [[Takshanuk Mountains]] (Mount Ripinsky and other peaks) are both popular. Growing winter recreational opportunities are available at and around [[Chilkat Pass]], for which Haines serves as a gateway with the [[Haines Highway]]. In recent years, Haines has continued to receive quite a bit of attention as a [[heli-skiing]] site. The [[Davidson Glacier]], due to its relatively accessible nature, is a popular attraction.

[[File:Haines Alaska Bald Eagle.jpg|thumb|280px|left|Bald eagle]]
Lutak Inlet and [[Chilkoot Lake]] are easily accessible and popular fishing sites. Lutak Inlet is frequented by numerous [[sea lion]]s, [[Pinniped|seal]]s, and [[orca]]s. [[Fort William H. Seward]] is a nationally recognized historic site (declared a [[National Historic Landmark]] in 1978) where a number of barracks, officer housing, and the parade grounds are maintained in private ownership today. Some of the structures are open to the public as businesses and restaurants. The fort is also referred to as "Port Chilkoot", a leftover term from the Port Chilkoot Company, which was formed after World War II by a group of investors who purchased the fort from the federal government.

Haines has a number of cultural offerings. Alaska Indian Arts<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.alaskaindianarts.com/|title=Alaska Indian Arts &#124; Haines Alaska|website=www.alaskaindianarts.com}}</ref> offers demonstrations by traditional craftsmen. History of the town of Haines and the local Tlingit people are featured in the Sheldon Museum & Cultural Center.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sheldonmuseum.org/|title=Haines Sheldon Museum in Haines Alaska|website=www.sheldonmuseum.org}}</ref> The [[Hammer Museum (Haines, Alaska)|Hammer Museum]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hammermuseum.org/|title=Welcome to the Hammer Museum! &#124; Hammer Museum|date=October 31, 2020|website=www.hammermuseum.org}}</ref> is dedicated to the history of the hammer in human society. The Tsirku Canning Company Museum offers a glimpse of Haines' historic salmon canneries. The American Bald Eagle Foundation<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.baldeagles.org/|title=American Bald Eagle Foundation|website=American Bald Eagle Foundation}}</ref> offers visitors a chance to tour the Natural History Museum, full of items from Southeast Alaska, and meet 9 raptor ambassadors. The ambassadors include 3 bald eagles (Bella, Arden, and Vega), 2 red-tailed hawks (Sitka and Warrior), one Eurasian eagle owl (Hans), one Eastern screech owl (Dylan), one Northern hawk owl (Cirrus), and one Peregrin falcon (Ole).

Haines is the location for the Southeast Alaskan State Fair, held annually each July. Among other attractions, the fairgrounds incorporate a portion of the set from [[Walt Disney]]'s ''[[White Fang (1991 film)|White Fang]]'' film, filmed in Haines in 1990. The surviving set includes a dozen small structures common to a mining town of the period of [[Jack London]]'s book of the same name.<ref>{{Citation
| last        = Patty
| first       = Stanton H.
| date        = July 25, 1993
| title       = Alaska Town Turns Set for 'White Fang' Into New Attraction
| journal     = [[Chicago Sun-Times]]}}</ref>