Colorado
Leadville
A skier on Main Street changed his plans.
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California
Weaverville
Small gathering places in an ocean of wilderness.
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California
McCloud
They used to drive past the houses they now live in.
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California
Dutch Flat
A hotel owner gives the detour a purpose.
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California
Shasta Lake
A business starts with encouragement from someone nearby.
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California
Nevada City
Who gets to feel at home in a historic town?
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Oregon
Jacksonville
A surviving building becomes a place to meet.
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California
Etna
They came home to build a business.
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California
Chico
Who protects the places that make a city itself?
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California
Oroville
A downtown changes when people commit something of their own.
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California
Columbia State Historic Park
A stagecoach needs someone who knows how to drive it.
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Colorado
Salida
The artist leaves her studio door open.
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Montana
Anaconda
Copper connected two towns through work.
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Colorado
Aspen
A mining town finds a different purpose.
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California
Belden
A crossing point that made someone come back.
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California
Calistoga
An unhurried day, in someone’s own account.
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California
Carmel-by-the-Sea
Artists shaped the village people come to see.
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California
Cedarville
Ranchland and mountains set the town’s scale.
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South Dakota
Deadwood
Main Street still makes a living from its history.
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California
Dorris
A water tower above a working valley.
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California
Dunsmuir
A riverside cabin keeps the town close.
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Nevada
Elko
Mornings in town. Afternoons in the Rubies.
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California
Eureka
Redwood wealth, written into a Victorian facade.
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California
Ferndale
Main Street opens onto ranchland and 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
A restored river carries generations of meaning.
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Oregon
Klamath Falls
A watershed is the starting point.
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Wyoming
Laramie
A dog walk above the working railway.
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Washington
Leavenworth
Front Street beneath the mountain skyline.
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California
Lewiston
The schoolhouse kept its place by changing its use.
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California
Mendocino
A song outside a storefront.
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Utah
Moab
A canyon road ends at 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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Washington
Omak
Cultural memory, designed into everyday play.
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Colorado
Pagosa Springs
Follow the water from the spring 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 mountains close by.
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Idaho
Post Falls
A riverfront and a museum corner.
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California
Redding
A nursery grows a chance to work.
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Wyoming
Sheridan
The West stands beside an open sign.
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Washington
Skykomish
A bridge on the way to a different life.
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California
Sonora
A working downtown in Gold Country.
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California
Truckee
A mountain stay still includes a trip into town.
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California
Tulelake
Wetlands beyond the town’s streets.
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California
Ukiah
Roots are planted, then carried forward.
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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
Twenty minutes on Miner Street.
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