Excursion Inlet residents recently asked the borough to rebuild the isolated community’s small boat harbor, which needs dredging and new pilings and docking.

If you don’t have a plane, or can’t afford a charter, you need a boat to get to Excursion Inlet.

But when you arrive, you might not be able to come ashore.

The isolated community in the southwestern corner of the Haines Borough doesn’t have a functioning harbor.

Last winter Excursion Inlet…