These eight Montana towns have their own gravitational pulls. Each draws visitors into a downtown built around great food and community events. Whitefish has unique restaurants that bring travelers back meal after meal. West Yellowstone houses museums about Montana's...
Nine countryside towns across the American South make a real effort to welcome strangers. Highlands and Blowing Rock keep their porch lights on in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Hendersonville and Blue Ridge run their orchards and vineyards open year-round. Eureka Springs...
New Mexico's small towns each carry a different angle on the Southwest. Truth or Consequences took its name from a 1950 radio show. Los Alamos built the first atomic weapons during the Manhattan Project. Roswell remembers a 1947 UFO incident. The eleven stops below...
When you picture camping in the U.S., what likely first comes to mind is a tent in a misty evergreen forest in the Pacific Northwest or waterfall views from your RV in Yosemite. But if you're like me, an avid camper who lives in the Southwest, camping means something...
More people move into South Carolina each year than move out, and that has been true for several years running. Money is part of the reason. The top state income tax rate is 6.2%, and property taxes on a primary home are among the lowest in the country. Winters stay...
The U.S. Senate adopted on Tuesday a measure that limits President Donald Trump's war powers, requiring him to seek Congress's approval for any future military action in Iran. The measure was passed with 50 votes in favor and 47 against, marking a first in which...
Cody's Irma Hotel has been pouring drinks since 1902 in the building Buffalo Bill named for his daughter. Jackson's Town Square sits inside four arches built entirely from naturally shed elk antlers. Sheridan's Mint has been collecting cowboy memorabilia behind its...
Wyoming's smallest towns punch above their weight on history and setting. Pinedale sits in the shadow of the Wind River Range with the Museum of the Mountain Man and a downtown that still works for the outfitters and ranchers who run the local economy. Buffalo's Main...
The hot springs of Truth or Consequences have been drawing soakers since the 1930s. Chama still runs the longest narrow-gauge steam railroad in the country every summer. White Rock sits on a mesa above the Rio Grande, with Bandelier National Monument and 33,000 acres...
Population growth is often seen as a sign of a city’s strength, but not every place in the United States is moving in that direction. While some metro areas continue to attract new residents, others are steadily shrinking as people move away in search of better job...