today we're taking a look at towns in the U.S with the best main streets here in the
United States there are hundreds of small towns with cute main streets that sort of take you
back to a simpler time or a better time in this country's history sometimes they're called Main
Street other times they're called First Street Broad Street Church Streets really popular or
any other name a town comes up with regardless of the actual name the locals call it or think
of it as Main Street today we're looking at the 10 most amazing small town main streets
in the U.S a couple things are these the only ten or are they the best ten probably not but
they are the 10 best I've been down and I've been down a lot of Main Streets in this country
I want to do more of these videos so let me know in the comments section you know if you
have one if you live in one or you know of one I'd love to do some research on it don't email
me don't DM me on Instagram let us all know in the comment section below and we'll take a
look at them and maybe they'll make it on to the next video got it get it good let's take a look
number 10 Stowe Vermont Stowe is a town in Vermont and it's nicknamed the ski capital
of the East it's home to Stow Mountain Resort a ski facility with terrain on Mount Mansfield
and Spruce Peak you know it's a nice place to go when you see a bunch of Instagram models either
going there and taking pictures or faking it this is how it works take a picture in let's
say Trenton New Jersey do a little Photoshop bam you're in Stowe Vermont but Stow is like a Four
Seasons Resort destination it's really known for its skiing but in other months they have
great mountain biking hiking and world-class Spas I don't know how you get a world-class Spa I mean
a spa is a spa so it's nice is that a world-class one this is a great Community they have festivals
great shopping great dining and activities for everyone in every single season not just winter
I love this place even though it's been a handful of years since I've been there I doubt much has
changed the village of Stowe sits along the Little River where it is joined by its West Branch the
their main street is Vermont Route 100 and this is a cute little downtown Main Street plenty of
shopping great places to eat great places to get some coffee even though it's pretty much a resort
Town it is still a nice small town they only have a population of about 600 but that swells
pretty good when it's ski season or just about any season but they're permanent residence it's about
600. the town was first settled in 1785 and was originally called Mansfield it was renamed Stowe
in 1810 after the town of Stowe in Massachusetts the one in Massachusetts doesn't have an e Stowe
became a popular tourist destination in the early 1900s and the first ski lift was built in 1936
Stow Mountain Resort opened in 1938 and quickly became one of the most popular ski resorts in the
United States if you want to buy a house here you better have some money they have a couple older
homes here that are going for under 800 000 but a majority of the homes here are 1.5 1.8 stuff like
that they've got quite a few that are in the three and four million area right now
now one thing I should mention before we go on these are in no particular order it's just
my opinion on these and I just these are 10 I really liked and I'm putting them up here
number nine Elizabethtown Kentucky Elizabethtown sits right outside of Fort Knox Kentucky which
is south of Louisville in 2015 I went to a army Buddy's retirement at Fort Knox he's from
Nashville afterwards we're going to drive down to his property in Nashville and a bunch of us
had a party but I had to go through Elizabethtown because of the movie that was out in 2005 and it's
a cute little town now over the years the town has spread out and it gets kind of I don't know loses
that small town Vibe outside of the area around the county courthouse which is the middle of a
traffic circle where Main Street and West Dixie meet the Old Courthouse in the middle is great but
walk down West Dixie or Main Street and you get that small town Main Street vibe the whole area
is like that that courthouse though is an amazing Building looks like one of the centerpieces for a
Reese Witherspoon movie back in the early 2000s you know she falls in love with like the local
fireman who's got too much hoes and a washboard stomach one thing I've always noticed about
Tucky small towns I mean as long as doesn't get into the villages and Bergs some of those are like
run down but the towns and the cities the suburbs of those are always pretty nice for the most part
I'm sure you're gonna be able to find some cases where it's not you know kept up at all but for the
most part A lot of these homeowners keep their houses up pretty good now I'm comparing it to
other states get down to Mississippi and Georgia you can run into some small towns where the whole
town should be condemned Elizabethtown is a very diverse Community with a population of about 30
000 residents it's kind of a historic place they had a Civil War battle here and a few
other things went on they have a historic State Theater you got Freeman Lake in town it's a cute
downtown with you know the whole city kind of getting bigger but their Main Street which is
West Dixie is pretty cool if you decided you want to move to Elizabethtown you know it's got a wide
range of prices for everyone they got some older run-down homes that you can get for around 200
000 decent homes start around 300 000 and they go all the way up into the Millions
number eight Harpers Ferry West Virginia Harper's Ferry West Virginia is in the Northeast section of
West Virginia where the Potomac and the Shenandoah rivers meet it's also right across the rivers from
both Virginia and Maryland this is a historic city with a lot of people going there just to
see the historic sites and a lot of Civil War stuff go on here including famous anti-slave guy
John Brown yeah he raided this place he didn't rate it they're like free any slaves there was
a arms Depot here and he wanted to get all the weapons Harper's Ferry is a beautiful small town
surrounded by some of the most amazing scenery you'll find in this part of the country there
are plenty of things to see and do here and it's kind of one of those places where local
high schools will go or middle schools elementary schools whatever for field trips but they also see
a lot of tourists and if you're a tourist and you're looking for that cool little Main Street
USA in Harpers Ferry you're gonna find that on High Street and Potomac Street that's right near
the tip of town and it's pretty cool a lot of old buildings Here and Now now they're like coffee
shops and Inns things like that this is also a nice place to bring a good camera the Appalachian
National Scenic Trail is here it goes right across this rail Bridge there's a foot Bridge next to the
rail bridge but the rail bridge is amazing there's actually two rail Bridges now if you want to move
to Harper's Ferry there's nothing for sale in town and there hasn't been for a while but if you want
to go outside of town a little bit you can find anything from 330 000 to 850 000. wide range there
number seven Jim Thorpe Pennsylvania I was here six years ago Jim Thorpe is in northeastern
Pennsylvania between wilkesbury and Allentown and it doesn't have much to do with the famous
athlete Jim Thorpe they just kind of named it this when they merged two little Villages that
were across the river from each other Jim Thorpe had started his athletic career about a hundred
miles south of there and when they merged it was 1954 Jim Thorpe was on everyone's mind
because he had just died the year prior so they talked to the family and his widow and they all
said yeah and they eventually moved his body from Oklahoma to here and put it in a mausoleum over
the years different people and organizations have come forward and said this isn't okay and
they want to move back to his birthplace of Oklahoma but he's still there I'd get into it
but the whole thing has more plot twists than an art house erotic Thriller in Paris but Jim
Thorpe Pennsylvania is a cute small town it's very touristy and they even have a Scenic Railway now
the whole place is pretty cool place to just visit but if you want to see their best Main
Street you want to go across to the west side of the river and walk up West Broadway find
some great wine there coffee places hotels bed and breakfast that type stuff and that's also
where you'll find the railway great hiking trails in this area too if you want to buy
a house here they're reasonable I mean you can get a decent looking older home for about 250
000 all the way up to four hundred thousand after four hundred thousand they get kind of
nice so it's definitely got some options here for people looking to move to northeast Pennsylvania
number six Camas Washington Camas Washington is pretty cool I mean it's east of Vancouver
Washington right across the Columbia River with one of Portland Oregon's worst suburbs
Gresham luckily for Camas there's no bridge that goes right there from Gresham so they're good to
go last summer when I was doing the small town tours which I'm about to start back up we did
Camas it's got a great Main Street their main street is called Northeast 4th Avenue and it's
pretty cool they've got an old theater there they got great shopping pubs pizza place great Mexican
food restaurant called Nuestra Mesa I probably pronounce that wrong sorry if I did if you want
to see a town that has done their you know their main street or their downtown area right Camas is
a perfect example the rest of Camas isn't the greatest I mean they do have some really nice
areas they've got a little Lake in town actually a couple of them they're glorified ponds their local
football team or all the sports is called the paper makers that's kind of sad but it is a really
nice Main Street we're just going going on looks alone and how it looks and you know just really
nice main streets in downtown anything I do about Washington State you have a bunch of jackaloons
get in the comment section that just how bad Washington is it's not that bad go down to Skid
Row La go to Detroit then tell me how bad canvas is cameras can get expensive you're probably gonna
have a hard time finding anything for under 700 000. they have some really nice riverfront
property that gets up into the millions one of them's like 5.5 million dollars I like the place I
like the downtown in my opinion the reason that I have never looked at moving out here is their real
estate price is a little bit too much for what you're getting in my opinion a lot of real estate
and a lot of the Lots here are pretty good size so that's a plus but I just you know I just don't
think it's worth what they're selling things for but some people do that's why they're buying them
number five Kennebunkport Maine this coastal town is in the southern section of Maine just south of
Portland Maine George H.W bush the 41st president he had a house here for a long time last time I
was here his son was in the office actually I think it was 2012 so he had been out of office
about three years this is a beautiful little town it's it's almost like a I don't know I
want to say like a museum piece you go there and look around their main street is pretty cool the
street here is called doc square or State Route 9 and it goes to both sides it's got a little
bridge in the middle it's a really nice place a lot of bed and breakfast type areas great food
great restaurants plenty of places to shop and some art galleries this is another good place
they could film a great romantic comedy if you want to move here you can't it's too expensive
starting home prices here are 1.2 million dollars that's the lowest it's almost like
everything you look at here it's mandatory that it's cute and adorable that's all there is to it
number four Jamestown California surprise surprise something nice is in California it's actually the
first of two scheduled for this video I know that is gonna upset a lot of you who just think
California is the absolute worst place on the planet I mean it's got some serious problems
but not having any great small towns isn't one of them Jamestown is a little north of Yosemite and
it is east of Stockton California it's got an old railroad there they've got a lot of historic sites
like the Jamestown hotel and their main street is actually called Main Street now there's a
difference between Western small towns and Eastern and let's say New England small towns they look a
little more rustic that's just how things are out here in the west so they don't have all these cute
buildings from the late 17 early 1800s a lot of the older buildings here are made completely of
wood not brick or stone like back East but they're still pretty cool nonetheless if you want to buy a
home in Jamestown everything comes with a little bit of property here you know at least like an
acre in most cases but homes that are decent and livable start around 400 000 and work their
way up and if you're wondering this is in eastern California it's far removed from all the nonsense
you see in the news they have any homeless there that aren't just passing through I'd be amazed
number three Solvang California Solvang is a really neat Place one of my mom's favorite
places to go back when I was a kid her and my dad were going away for the weekend they were
going to Solvang this town is north of Santa Barbara sort of halfway between Santa Barbara
and the Vandenberg Air Force Base it's known for its Danish style architecture and many wineries
they've got a lot of wine up here that's what a lot of people go here for the tasting rooms the
whole place is just decked out on this whole Dutch theme it's pretty cool it's like going
to Europe without getting on a plane or a boat it's not that extreme but it's pretty cool their
main street is called Mission Street and this is a great place if you don't want to move there go
visit it for a weekend sometime it's really neat if you want to buy a home here the houses start
at 1.5 million dollars and they go all the way up to like 9 million there's one 9 million and it's
got 43 Acres they got a lot of 2 million dollar homes that like have half an acre or a quarter of
an acre number two Ellsworth Maine back to Maine we go in the small town of Ellsworth Ellsworth is
a small town just Inland from Bar Harbor it's got Leonard Lake here the union river flows
right through town it is a nice place to live beautiful area bar Harbor's so nice it looks
fake and Ellsworth is just up the road and it's pretty cool too now Main Street in Ellsworth is
called Main Street and the area you're looking for to find that cool Main Street that's gonna be just
east of the Union River like all of New England small towns they got great old brick buildings
just amazing masonry these buildings are going to last another 200 years the town's adorable
the surrounding scenery is amazing this is a great place to live and if you want to do that it's not
going to set you back that far you can get decent livable homes right now for around 350 to 450
000 now they go up from there obviously but you could get a nice livable home for 350
000 and considering there's water all around here there's a good chance you're walking distance
from a river or lake all right before we get to number one we're gonna try something different
I've noticed in the analytics that a lot of you drop off the video as soon as I say what number
one is so we're gonna make number one really brief because most of you aren't sticking around for the
explanation all right on to number one and number one Burlington Vermont yep back to New England we
go with Burlington Vermont Bernie Sanders was the mayor of this town forever and it is a cute
New England town city whatever you want to call it their main street is called Church Street it
is a walk only Street meaning they blocked it off and you could walk from shop to shop have
coffee whatever you want to do if you want to buy a home in Burlington your starting money is
going to be about 400 000. this is an amazing town with amazing people and amazing scenery it sits on
Lake Champlain right across from New York State and not too far south from the Canadian border
all right that's today's video hope you guys enjoyed it hope you got some
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