town · Montana
Whitefish
A vibrant mountain town at the north end of the Flathead Valley, set between Whitefish Lake and Big Mountain, with Glacier National Park about 25 miles east.
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town · Montana
Seeley Lake
An unincorporated lake-and-timber town on the Clearwater River chain of lakes, about an hour northeast of Missoula between the Mission and Swan ranges.
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Bigfork
An unincorporated arts village at the northeast corner of Flathead Lake, where the Swan River tumbles into the largest natural freshwater lake in the western lower 48, about 18 miles from Kalispell.
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Polson
The Lake County seat on the south shore of Flathead Lake, where the Flathead River leaves the lake beneath the Mission Mountains: an incorporated town of about 5,000-plus within the Flathead Indian Reservation.
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Plains
An incorporated ranch-and-timber town of about 1,100 on the lower Clark Fork River in Sanders County, once called Wild Horse Plains, with its own critical access hospital, K-12 schools, and the county fairgrounds.
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Noxon
A tiny community on the lower Clark Fork River in Sanders County, set between Noxon Reservoir and the Cabinet Mountains just a few miles from the Idaho line.
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town · Montana
Georgetown Lake
An unincorporated lake community at roughly 6,400 feet on the Pintler Veterans' Memorial Scenic Highway, straddling the Granite-Deer Lodge county line between Philipsburg and Anaconda.
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town · Montana
Anaconda
Marcus Daly's 1883 smelter city at the foot of the Anaconda Range, now a consolidated city-county of about 9,700 people reinventing itself around historic Main Street blocks, a Jack Nicklaus course on reclaimed smelter ground, and the Pintler high country, 22 miles west of Butte.
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Philipsburg
The Granite County seat, an 1890s silver-mining town with a famously restored and repainted Main Street, set in the Flint Creek ranching valley on the Pintler Scenic Highway between Georgetown Lake and I-90 at Drummond.
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Lewistown
The Fergus County seat and Central Montana's hub city, commonly called the geographic center of the state, where trout-filled Big Spring Creek runs beneath a stone-built downtown ringed by the Judith, Moccasin, and Snowy island ranges.
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Dillon
The Beaverhead County seat — a university town of about 3,900 at 5,100 feet, ringed by trout rivers, ranch country, and Montana's largest national forest.
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Coeur d'Alene
North Idaho's lake-resort small city of about 58,000 on the north shore of 25-mile-long Lake Coeur d'Alene, the Kootenai County seat about 30 miles east of Spokane on I-90.
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town · Idaho
Clark Fork
A tiny incorporated city on Highway 200 in Bonner County, where the Clark Fork River fans into its delta at the east end of Lake Pend Oreille, about 25 miles east of Sandpoint beneath the Cabinet Mountains and Scotchman Peaks.
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town · Washington
Newport
The Pend Oreille County seat on the west bank of the north-flowing Pend Oreille River, about 45 miles north of Spokane on US 2, sharing a seamless main-street border with Oldtown, Idaho.
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Kootenai Valley
A two-town region in Montana's far northwest corner, where Libby, the Lincoln County seat, and Troy, the state's lowest-elevation town, sit 18 miles apart on US 2 along the Kootenai River between the Cabinet Mountains and the Purcells.
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Swan Valley
The quiet upper Swan Valley around unincorporated Condon, where Montana Highway 83 threads timber-and-wildlife country between the Mission Mountains and the Swan Range, with Bob Marshall Wilderness trailheads at Holland Lake.
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town · North Dakota
Bismarck
North Dakota's capital city on the east bank of the Missouri River, a government-anchored metro of about 78,000 with its twin city, Mandan, directly across the water.
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