Colorado
Leadville
One glimpse of skijoring, and Leadville had him.
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California
Weaverville
In an ocean of wilderness, gathering places matter.
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California
McCloud
The houses they once passed became home.
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California
Dutch Flat
The welcome is worth the detour.
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California
Shasta Lake
A home-brew kit, a few apples, and a town that said keep going.
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California
Nevada City
A historic town asks who gets to feel at home.
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Oregon
Jacksonville
The old buildings are only the beginning.
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California
Etna
They came home and put an old mercantile back to work.
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California
Chico
A city reveals itself in the places it chooses to protect.
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California
Oroville
A downtown changes when people show up for it.
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California
Columbia State Historic Park
History stays alive when someone knows how to drive the stagecoach.
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Colorado
Salida
The artist leaves her studio door open.
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Montana
Anaconda
Copper built a road between Butte and Anaconda.
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Colorado
Aspen
After silver came a different kind of mountain town.
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California
Belden
He crossed the bridge, then came back for a closer look.
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California
Calistoga
The best days here refuse to be rushed.
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California
Carmel-by-the-Sea
Artists made the village people still come to see.
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California
Cedarville
The Warner Mountains make everything else feel small.
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South Dakota
Deadwood
Main Street still earns its keep from history.
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California
Dorris
A water tower marks the edge of a working valley.
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California
Dunsmuir
The river is never far from town.
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Nevada
Elko
Mornings in town. Afternoons in the Rubies.
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California
Eureka
A Victorian mansion makes the redwood boom impossible to miss.
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California
Ferndale
Main Street ends where ranchland meets the coast.
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California
Grass Valley
The mining story continues in the families above the tunnels.
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California
Happy Camp
The Klamath carries more than water.
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Klamath Falls
Start with the water.
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Wyoming
Laramie
A dog walk above the rails.
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Washington
Leavenworth
Front Street, with the Cascades looking over its shoulder.
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California
Lewiston
The schoolhouse became a library. The bridge kept carrying people home.
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California
Mendocino
A song outside a storefront.
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Utah
Moab
After the canyon road, a room in town.
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California
Montague
The pilots come for the people, too.
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California
Mount Shasta
The mountain has a hometown parade.
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Omak
A playground designed to carry memory forward.
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Colorado
Pagosa Springs
Follow the hot water to the river.
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Colorado
Palisade
The valley's work reaches the tasting room.
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Washington
Port Angeles
A working harbor with the Olympics at its back.
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Idaho
Post Falls
From the riverfront to one museum corner.
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California
Redding
A nursery grows more than plants.
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Wyoming
Sheridan
The West stands beside an open sign.
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Washington
Skykomish
He crossed the bridge looking for a different life.
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California
Sonora
Gold Country still has errands to run.
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California
Tulelake
Beyond the town, the wetlands begin.
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California
Ukiah
Some roots are planted. Others arrive and stay.
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South Dakota
Wall
The dinosaur gets you to stop. Then you go inside.
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California
Willow Creek
A festival becomes a reason to come home.
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California
Yreka
Give Miner Street twenty minutes.
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