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Haines is a census-designated place in Haines Borough, Alaska, in the northern part of the Alaska Panhandle near Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve.

The original Native name for Haines was Deishu, meaning end of the trail, given by the Chilkoot band of the Tlingit because they could portage their canoes there and save 20 miles of rowing around the Chilkat Peninsula.

The Chilkat Mission and school were built at Deishu in 1881, and the mission was renamed Haines in 1884 in honor of Francina E. Haines, making Haines the only town in Southeast Alaska named after a woman.

Haines formally incorporated as a city on January 24, 1910, and in October 2002 voters approved consolidating the city with Haines Borough into a home rule borough, after which Haines became a census-designated place.

Fort William H. Seward, a United States Army installation completed south of Haines in 1904, was the only Army post in Alaska before World War II, and it was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1972.

The Haines Highway, built by the Army in 1943, runs 39 miles from Haines to the Canadian border and continues to Haines Junction, Yukon, 147 miles from Haines.

Haines was the southern terminal of the 626-mile Haines-Fairbanks Pipeline, which carried refined petroleum products to Fairbanks-area military bases from 1955 until it was retired in 1973.

The Alaska Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve, a 48,000-acre state park established in 1982 along the Chilkat River near Haines, hosts the largest congregation of bald eagles in the world, with more than 3,000 eagles gathering to feed on a late-season salmon run.

Haines hosts the annual Alaska Bald Eagle Festival each November, run by the American Bald Eagle Foundation, at the peak of the eagle congregation.

Haines had a population of 1,657 at the 2020 census, down from 1,713 in 2010, with 759 households, and it holds 79.6 percent of Haines Borough's total population.