Top 10 best small towns

[Goku]

I guess my point was as long as tourists think it's the cool place, everyone else can have the actual cool places

 

[CassiusClay]

10-15 K is considered a city? Where the fuck do you live? 10-15 K hardly deserves a name.

 

[PartyHon]

SANDPOINT IDAHO

amazing place



lake in the summer, mountains in the winter



yeah i live here. looking down the long part of the lake

 

[d.sprague....]

Lake Placid!

 

[Charliesteez]

Saw the thread title and was about to jump in and post TC. Born and Raised. I live out in the LC. (Leelanau County)

 

[qeefmasterflex]

Doesn't get much smaller than philipsburg momtana

 

[act.resist]

ME TOO. i used to live on lakeview...

 

[Steezy_P]

jealous.

 

[k-rob]

Tulameen BC was the best a few years back, not so much now

 

[JTTrembles]

This for sure, my magnificent town derby has only 20,000

 

[jblaski]

"Only" 20,000? My god, you guys don't know what a small town is. I grew up in a town of 2,100. My dad grew up in a town of less than 300.

 

[Charliesteez]

I live out between Empire and Glen Arbor. Where'd you go to school?

 

[act.resist]

aah ok, that's probably why I dont know you. i went to TC west. im assuming you went to glen arbor?

 

[Charliesteez]

Yah I went to school at Glen Lake and then I transfered to Central this year. I am a sophomore this year.

 

[act.resist]

laaaame! west is much better

 

[Charliesteez]

haha I don't know. Central is pirty sick so far. Everyone seems so chill.

 

[jca]

It's not in 'murica, but my little town of Rossland was #8 in the NY Times' "46 Places to Go in 2013" list..

5 min drive to the ski hill, bike trails from your backyard, 6 lakes within a 1 hour drive, and almost every outdoor activity you can imagine.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/01/10/travel/2013-places-to-go.html?ref=travel&_r=0

 

[act.resist]

Yea, I'm sure there basically the same. We all have our stereotypes of the other schools, but in the end you have mainly the same type of people. Also central is in a good location and its open campus for seniors which is cool. Except who wouldn't just leave anyways. Well good luck with the rest of school! Probably will never see you since I don't live there anymore haha.

 

[Charliesteez]

Yah we sneak out for lunch anyways. Always go to Paesanos. Where you at now?

 

[act.resist]

oh god. paesanos is my favorite pizza in the world, i miss it. it was really easy to just leave the school during lunch at my school so wed go to mary's kitchen port all the time. if you've never had mary's kitchen port...HAVE IT.

but im in marquette, during fall and winter. then down in the thumb area for summer. or out west if im able to get a summer counselor job.

 

[Charliesteez]

yah Pies is the shit. I have never been to Mary's before and a group of kids in my class were yelling at me about how good a Gobbler is and how I can't call myself a Traverse City local until I had had one.

Marquette is cool. I was there in February for the first time.

 

[PacificRimJob]

Truckee, CA.

Closest small college town to big time civilization.

Lake tahoe is only a few minutes away, which is kinda tight...

Or you can float the river

You can also go to Donner lake, and see where Cannibals used to roam.

You also have your choice of like, a bazillion ski areas.

And you're really not too far away from the bay area, if you're feeling the drive.

Or reno if you want a cheap hooker or to shoot guns in the desert.

Burning man is pretty damn close.

And basically Truckee just fucking rules.

 

[act.resist]

^^^^^^

 

[PacificRimJob]

Also... how I labelled it a 'college' town is hilarious. Meant 'ski' town.

 

[2_fadez]

Stop trying to convince me to come and economically stimulate your small towns with my tourist dollars, peasants

 

[TijmenDal]

Bozeman, fuck yeah!

 

[t-roy]

excellent post.

There are some awesome small towns in Maine too. Colleges, breweries galore, ocean, lakes, rivers, mountains...

 

[act.resist]

Your money is worthless when millions of people are already coming...MERICA. Im sad that i dont live in traverse city anymore, but im damn glad i dont have deal with fucking fudgies clogging up the roads already adding to the amount of terrible drivers in tc. Kinda sad that theyre slowly making traverse city into a metro area

 

[Peter.]

not to mention some of those ski areas are top in the country

not tooooo far from LA either

 

[PacificRimJob]

Most of them are real good.

Squaw/Alpine/Kirkwood are easily top gnar terrain..

Sugarbowl/Rose are good backup offerings.

Heavenly/Northstar/Boreal are incredible for park.

Donner Ski Ranch/Homewood are kickass spots for when you have a blackout date and there's powder.

and.... it's like 8 o 9 hours from LA. Which... is way worse than SF and the Bay Area, so why bother. It's closer to go to vegas than LA from tahoe.

 

[SamtheEagle]

Moab Utah

 

[PKchu]

SILVERTON. No pictures or description needed.

 

[ThaLorax]

I love Moab but who in their right mind would actually want to live there?

 

[MilaKunis]

Let's be honest. Rose blows Its a good time

With friends but it is pretty awful

 

[ThaLorax]

was that a haiku?

 

[j.saaaarela]

So much this.

I can only handle so much climbing and biking in 100 degrees... in June... wait 'til August rolls around...

 

[StickDonkey]

http://redrivernm.com/

Tiny little close knit ski town and only 15 minutes from Angel Fire and an hour from Taos.

 

[SterlingArcher]

Cook, Minnesota.. or any small town near Boundary Waters.. every town has an awesome outfitter for BWCA... And whatever the tiny town is on the south side of Telluride. Can't remember the name.

 

[ThaLorax]

Durango or Ouray?

 

[Stainr]

TC is legit, but south end sand bar on torch....Priceless

 

[SterlingArcher]

Ouray. That's it.. but I piss myself on the million dollar highway in winter

 

[ThaLorax]

Red Mountain Pass ain't for those with a weak bladder.

 

[SterlingArcher]

Indeed. I used to live in Ridgway near the hot springs. Great location down there

 

[soulskier]

I'd vote Gaylord over etc, I'm biased though

 

[00000000]

Rossland, BC!

 

[act.resist]

i think out of all of the places i like to go in the lower peninsula, i like charlevoix and saugatuck the most.

 

[ThaLorax]

Fairfax,CA has not yet been mentioned. Great beer, great outdoors nearby, great food, short drive to San Francisco, short drive to Sonoma/Napa, short drive to the beach, 3 hours to Tahoe, and not yet yuppified like the rest of Marin County.

Also, Bolinas,CA. I refuse to provide any information on it though seeing as it's sooper secret and the locals take always down the government's signs that direct you to get there.

Here's some pictures to tease your mind though:

Stinson Beach in the foreground, Bolinas in that background:

This has to be the busiest the town has ever been but this is downtown:

And this is the famous Bolinas Lagoon for surfing (or tripping mushrooms and body surfing like I did growing up)

 

[ThaLorax]

and by Lagoon, I meant Beach. It's NEXT to the lagoon.

 

[SamtheEagle]

fair enough. I could see myself spending summers there but not much more than that

 

[ThaLorax]

Ha! Summer are the worst time to be there.... unless you like rock climbing on rock that can scramble an egg or biking on rock that'll melt your tires....