Executive Travel magazine has named Haines among 12 of “America’s Best Small Towns.”

The brief write-up in the upscale, bimonthly magazine describes Haines as “a former U.S. Army outpost bordering 20 million acres of unprotected wilderness.”

Haines Brewery’s spruce tip ale gets a mention, as do heli-skiers, the Fogcutter Bar, the bald eagle festival, artist Tresham Gregg, The Hammer Museum and moose hoofprints in the sidewalk cement at Third Avenue and Main Street.

The article…