hey guys janet here with radiant wanderings thank you so much for joining
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while and as always if you find anything in here helpful or
useful please give a big thumbs up it really helps me out so today we are just
doing a walking slash driving tour of downtown
columbia falls and some of the area of columbia falls and hungry horse this is
part of my bigger montana living moving to montana guide
if that interests you be sure to check out the city guides there is a whole
playlist all about moving to montana so check
that out also i will put a link to my blog posts below
because those detail everything that the videos go over so if you need one of the
links go ahead and check that out if you're
looking for the links for like cost of living just scroll down to the cost of
living heading for school rating scroll down to the
schools etc etc i've had a couple people ask where
those links are located they're under each of the headings on the blog post
which i will link to the blog post below alright so let's get into it
all right you guys so we're just pulling out of super one grocery store along
highway 2 in columbia falls we're heading east
now towards glacier national park gonna head down the main strip
of highway 2 in columbia falls
tire stores gas stations hardware stores
we passed back slope brewing that's one of the restaurants i mentioned in the
columbia falls city guide absolutely love that place right there
on the left
lots of fast food subways burger kings pizza huts
dairy queen and of course plenty of banks and real
estate agencies right here is the back room i mentioned
that in my columbia falls city guide as well on the right there
um the farmer's market takes place on the
left up here on thursday nights
and a couple coffee shops
now we're gonna go left at this light this is nucleus avenue
and we're going to start our walk of downtown columbia falls
uptown hearth is absolutely adorable it's a bakery and coffee shop
used bookstore here on the right
gotta love the classic barber shop
this pizza place is really good wood-fired pizzas
and it looks like they're updating that building that i showed in the city guide
saying it was a bit tired looking so i guess they're on it which is awesome
physical therapy yoga hive there's also a yoga hive in whitefish montana
and then coming up here is smith's grocery store so you have a few grocery
options right in columbia falls flathead valley thrift store is up on
the left and further down that way is the bowling
alley
nicer apartment buildings newer right there behind that building with the
mural up here this building i don't know what it used to be it says they have
hill roaring crossfit in there now if you are into that sort
of hardcore workout thing i prefer just to hike and enjoy the
great outdoors but to each their own
even though it's kind of and across the street is a fly shop
larry's fly shop
and then my favorite place to dine in columbia falls gunsite saloon here on
the right you see they have the outdoor seating area lots of live music out
there which is wonderful and now we're going to just take a drive
from columbia falls junior high to the high school
again beautiful mountain views from the junior high school here
montana veterans home straight ahead
this is a cute little neighborhood back in here
my daughter absolutely loved the picket fence on this house
you don't see a lot of those here in montana
and it looks like they're still doing some construction in here
so if you're looking to build and columbia falls
seems like your city of choice there you go
so straight ahead there are some of the fields for the high school
the sport fields
looks like some apartment buildings there on the right and here's where we
kind of merged the new with the old some more
established housing
judging by the ranches maybe 70s
and again it doesn't look like there's an hoa of any kind here so you have
campers and vehicles all throughout
and that's common in montana if that bothers you you're definitely going to
want to buy enough land where it doesn't matter and you can't see your neighbor
or get in a homeowners association neighborhood
with some pretty strict bylaws
and there's the high school up here on the left
all right so now we are going to just continue
our drive east on highway 2 out of columbia falls that store on the right
right there that we're passing absolutely love it i think it's like
shops at station 8 or something super cute antique store definitely stop
in there and now i'm just driving um hungry horse
and corum kind of some of the offshoots from
highway 2 to give you an idea of what i talked about in the city guide
so this is one of the lower housing cost sections of hungary horse just off
highway 2.
still beautiful mountain surroundings all about and then this is
some of the higher end housing in hungary horse
river is down on the left hand side there property for sale if you're
looking
and now we are just going to drive back uh towards columbia falls when you're
leaving hungry horse you'll go over this bridge
they just widened it this year which is really nice it used to be quite
narrow through here
and again i just wanted to give you an idea of the
just wide open spaces and the beautiful mountain views
that you can get in the hungry horse corman west glacier area
this road is well traveled with visitors to glacier national park every year
and up here on the left shortly i think around mile marker 95 you can get
fresh spring water from the mountains just pours out of a tube
along the side of the road there is a pull off there
if you want to stop and fill your water bottle
and over here on the right are the
beautiful river views and up above the river is the train
track so you'll see some trains going
quite often along there pretty picturesque
all right that's it for this week guys i hope that helped you out gave you a
little bit more of a feel of what downtown columbia falls is like and
hungry horse and west glacier hit that notification bell because next
video is going to move on to big fork and creston
and then from there we will do lakeside and sommers so that's
it for this week guys you have an awesome week and i'll see you next time