Living in Montana is not for the faint of heart. You must have a pioneer spirit be self reliant and not expect amenities like you find in bigger cities. Most of these small towns you have to travel a fair distance for supplies and in the winter that can be tricky. I raised 4 children in a small town in Montana so the advice is solid. My sons graduating class was 22 kids and the whole town turned out to wish them all well. After the kids graduate, they move away There are just no opportunities to keep them around

@MGQ888

Ай бұрын

You got that right. We homesteaded in Montana. We started in 1991 and left in 2002. Our place was off grid and we lived like pioneers along with a couple of other families up a single track gulch. I wouldn't trade those years and experiences for anything. You learn a lot about yourself when the modern world is not on your doorstep.

@randallvoth8810

11 күн бұрын

I just went to a graduation in Montana and the graduating class was a whopping 5!

As a Brit, I’ve learned more about your great nation by watching your videos than from any other source… outstanding KZread channel…🇺🇸🇬🇧👍

@rhondatanner1157

Ай бұрын

Love that castle building

@rhondatanner1157

Ай бұрын

Look at that sky

@ghostlyimageoffear6210

Ай бұрын

I met a Brit in the tiny town of Ovando, MT some years back. I asked him if he was from Liverpool because he sounded just like the Beatles. He was so fun and friendly and exuberant, he put outgoing Americans to shame. He was hosted by former American neighbors who used to live in England and they were on their way to Yellowstone. We were in the only general store in town which had photographs of grizzlies who stalk through at night. Short time later a camper in that town was dragged out of her tent and mauled to death by a grizzly.

@apocyldoomer

Ай бұрын

Greetings from across the pond!

It's always relaxing watching these videos. I must say I enjoy the rural town tours over larger cities. Thanks for keeping videos approximately 20 minutes. Don't have the time to watch hour long videos and I thank you for that. Quality Content here.

@lisalarouge6309

Ай бұрын

FYI, Meagher county is pronounced “Mahr”. It’s Irish.

From India: Despite getting a student visa in 1983; could not make it to the US due to family reasons. even assuming I did come over, I am certain I would have at best seen few towns [ maybe ] of this vast country. but now sitting somewhere thousands mile away, thanks to this channel i am seeing most of the US towns and motorways. thanks to both of you.

Those must be the last 2 towns in America without a Dollar General...lol

From Townsend Montana, you are about 35 miles from Three Forks Montana close to I 90. That area is where the Jefferson, Madison, and Galliton, rivers come together to form the Missouri River. You would be literally at the head waters of the longest river in the U.S.

@ghostlyimageoffear6210

Ай бұрын

Lewis & Clark, and Gallatin City!

Entertaining, informative and refreshing. I never saw somebody give so much time and exposure to forgotten towns in the USA. Watching this it feels like you really wanted to know what was going on in these towns, you didn't just do it for the youtube money. But I do hope you get your dues from this channel in terms of $. You're showing people how to pay attention to the little things in life

@JoeandNicsRoadTrip

Ай бұрын

Wow, thank you!

If you're thinking of moving here think again. Sometimes during the winter months it can get brutally cold . 40 -50 below zero is not unusual !

@GrabLifeByTheStones.

Ай бұрын

I am fine with that.

@williamwilkins3084

Ай бұрын

Yep. I'll stay away - I wouldn't even be able to get my car started when it's that cold! Or even get in it to try and do so since the door would be so froze shut!

@NickManCuso59

Ай бұрын

@@williamwilkins3084 Smart man, but you'd be surprised what you can endure when your survival depends on it ! 🥶☠️

@williamwilkins3084

Ай бұрын

@@NickManCuso59 I guess survival would be only for the fittest up there! It's not easy to survive the weather here in Nebraska!

@MTknitter22

Ай бұрын

Every place has its weather challenges. There are areas of MT such as Kalispell where winter is not bad at all. A number of Texans are in Montana and they love the ranching life there - my son lives amongst them. Texans & Montanans have a lot in common - a hardiness it takes to deal with 🥶 or 🥵🥵🥵

There's no experience quite like going through the utterly spiritually beautiful Glacier Park and suddenly finding yourself in.....Browning. Browning is a hard, hard place. There are lots of good people that live there, but the problems they face in that community are staggering. A spouse of a family member worked as an emergency room in their ER, and on the weekends, Browning's ER would be indiscernible from any of our nation's largest cities. Gunshot wounds, car accidents, overdoses, assaults, etc. She eventually moved to Seattle and found working as an ER nurse a relief compared to Browning. If you guys get a chance again, taking Highway 2 through Glacier is a bucket list experience. As is visiting Browning. For the opposite reasons.

@JoeandNicsRoadTrip

Ай бұрын

We will do that.

@kevinspilker6622

Ай бұрын

@@JoeandNicsRoadTrip and if you happen to head back on i90, Wallace, Idaho is a really, really cool town. The Silver Valley of Idaho was once one of the richest regions in the world. It was kind of the last holdout of the robber barons and the old west. After an apocalyptic fire that helped establish the forest service, Wallace rebuilt.

@randallvoth8810

11 күн бұрын

If you do that trip, a good little town to finish with would be Choteau. Population is about 1750 and they have lots of interesting things to see...

The house, just before the castle, at 0500 looks to me to be in the style of Early Adams Family. Love it.😊

I the late 90’s, we traveled a number of back country roads in Montana, one that really stood out went out of Columbus. The place had a closed bank with a calendar from 1929 on the wall, a number of other closed buildings had all the windows intact as did the bank... I’m assuming the town was in the vicinity of Rapelje, the elevator had the name of a major brewing company.

@ghostlyimageoffear6210

Ай бұрын

Incredible.

Wow I really miss driving across the country. That is a beautiful town thanks for sharing the video

Townsend and White Sulphur Springs are both great examples of Mid-Sized towns in Montana. If you want small size, head about 15 miles south to Toston...that is a great example of a Small Town in Montana. This was a great video taking me back home (literally). Thank you

Always thrilled for a new upoad! Thanks for the tour in rural Montana.

Thank you for all the driving you do.

@JoeandNicsRoadTrip

Ай бұрын

My pleasure!

I enjoy "Small Town USA" videos. Greetings from Australia.

I enjoy your videos. I always learn something no matter what video I listen to I always learn something. Thank you so much.❤

@JoeandNicsRoadTrip

Ай бұрын

Thank you, Nancy!

It is so beautiful there. My sister lived in Sundance Wyoming for years and it was a treat to visit them.

From Russia with love! 🙃👀💌🇺🇸 Thank you for sharing! 👏 God Bless you! ❤️

I love White Sulpher Springs. The downtown and country side are both understated and nice. The quiet appeals to me. The castle is stunning! I love the crunch your tires make on the gravel roads. Awesome mountains. Townsend is a nice town. I like the fairytale house too.

Some nice small towns for sure. Both are beautiful as well. No WalMarts, Dollar General, Dollar Tree, or Family Dollar either. Nice!!! Have a great day

Thanks for the tour Joe.

So glad you spoke to the doggies!

@jburnett8152

Ай бұрын

They wanted to know if he could throw a ball. 😅

@TinkerTailor4303

Ай бұрын

They looked like they really wanted to visit!🤗

Another one of your wonderful videos! Great idea to incorporate the visual graphics for the statistics.

I have been to Billings Montana where we had a chuck wagon dinner just outside the city. It was very entertaining. Melbourne Australia

I am from Iowa and used to feed cattle and bought feeder calves from the Miles City, Montana area.

White Sulphur Springs was the very end of a Milwaukee Road Branch served by the local railroad you mentioned. It was mostly a grain hauler with trucks doing all of the heavy hauling today. Another great tour, thanks much!

@JoeandNicsRoadTrip

Ай бұрын

Thanks for the info!

I am looking with my family to be living there. Thanks for those datas

that deck at 6:47 not only looks bad, but really dangerous

First Dollar General in Montana, was Oct 2023 in Columbia Falls

@JoeandNicsRoadTrip

Ай бұрын

Interesting.

@snowblind.

Ай бұрын

The first in Washington state was July 2023 in Wilbur

White Sulphur Springs like it could be a nice place to live. Most notable to me were the rail cars with no graffiti on them. Very rare in today's world. You could show your kids what trains used to look like.

@chambaa1000

Ай бұрын

It has high crime for such a small town

Greetings from England. Montana certainly is the state. I'm a bit long in the tooth now but being a keen wild camper if ever I had got to the US Montana certainly is the state that appeals. Your travelogues are very good. Well done.

@JoeandNicsRoadTrip

Ай бұрын

Thank you, Graham!

You missed Dillon , a beautiful town of 4800 in south western Montana , Beaverhead County. Home of university of Montana Western . Great fishing , mountain s and recreation abound.

@ghostlyimageoffear6210

Ай бұрын

And if one goes to Dillon, they must spend the 20 miles to get to the ghost town of Bannack!

Thanks for the ride today

Montana state looks beautiful. The log cabins are cozy looking.

Welcome to Montana...we hope you had a great time.

Love your back road town vlogs the best. I'm truly thankful for the videos because it's very interesting to see places through another's eyes.

It was good to see you do White Sulpher and Townsend. They are basic Montana towns, they have what you need to survive, and a lot of agriculture. Dollar General has not spread up here very much, we have one in the Flathead now but it is brand new. Myrna Loy was born in Radersburg, just a little south of Townsend. I appreciate you doing normal cities here, and not the resort areas. These are what regular Montana towns look like, not what you see on "Yellowstone". I appreciate the job you did here.

Black Hills native here: Every town seems to have a Stockmens' Bar. :) Thanks as always for the great content. MT is lovely and also not for the faint of heart!

Montana is beautiful. I couldn't do the winters though. I always thought it would be cool to renovate a train car into a tiny home. Today is the first day we are starting to feel some heat. 😩

@bayoumanbryan

Ай бұрын

ive thought about the same thing. some of those old rail cars were really awesome on the inside

Lonely looking, very cold winter. Thanks for sharing!

Those cedar trees are beautiful.

Winter is hard in those old trailers. Lots of them catch fire. Go up like a pop tart wrapper.

An awesome video ! I always enjoy exploring these quiet rural towns, so fascinating. Some interesting looking homes and some lovely scenery ! Thank you, Joe and Nic.🥰

Thanks for the ride! Haven been out there in 20 years,

Hi Joe Nice ride, very comfortable and relaxing. Enjoyed really. Thanks.

@JoeandNicsRoadTrip

Ай бұрын

Thanks 👍

Beautiful backdrops! Rock on

G,day Nic and Joe from Sydney Australia. I'm enjoying the look at MT Big sky. Q1. Is it better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all? Q2. Are church doors locked because the holiness is only inside? 🌏🇦🇺

love the changes and the displace

I have a book about a Emmanuel Taylor Gordon, who grew up a hundred years ago in White Sulphur Springs, a black man, who worked briefly on Ringling's (yes, of circus fame) railroad and then part of the Harlem Renaissance. Been to Townsend and Ringling and south and east on Convict Road, but not to White Sulphur Springs.

We spend a couple months a year in a town of about 1700; big by rural Montana standards. Extreme northeast part of the state in prairie country. Love it there!! No Dollar General but there is a Family Dollar, which is a division of Dollar Tree.

Thanks Joe and Nic for your video's, most enjoyable. Noticed in this video how the Silver birches are barely in leaf in early May, here in New Zealand start turning green in the first weeks of spring, two months before Montana.

thanks for sharing beautiful video 👍

Great quiet rural town👌👌

I remember one of my daughter's friends in high school would spend summers with grandparents in Montana. She said was a three hour drive to nearest Walmart. Pretty remote

@JoeandNicsRoadTrip

Ай бұрын

Yep. The nearest Walmart is far away.

Beautiful country.yes nice to see.

I hauled grain through here back in the mid 1990’s and loved it! There’s a Hutterite colony on the outside of town I went to and knew some of the people there and a couple of their boys moved here to Minnesota just west of me about that time. They are still here to this day. You are following my trail when I left White Sulphur Springs and went on to Townsend to load grain.

Rural MT. What a great place!

LOVE these videos

For a small rural town in Montana, White Sulphur Springs sure has a LOT of ice machines! Very unusual. Townsend too. Along with an outhouse!

@handsomeX

Ай бұрын

Beat me to it 😂

@bayoumanbryan

Ай бұрын

Probably to ice down all of the wildlife harvested for food. deer, elk, moose, dall sheep, mountain goats probably even bear

@randallvoth8810

11 күн бұрын

There is a ton of recreation in the area. Everyone needs ice!

The building at 5:15 is amazing !

I was born and raised in Lewistown, MT. You'd love going through that town. Somewhere around 6000 people.

NZer here - I love Montana! I went through it on a road trip with my Canadian uncle in 2002. Lovely place! I don't remember going through White Sulphur Springs but it looks like my kind of place! Nice and quiet, in the middle of some great scenery. Looks like a good place for hiking.

Really enjoy these videos. Especially the remote, small towns. I will open google maps on another monitor and follow along with you from town to town. Keep up the great work!

@JoeandNicsRoadTrip

Ай бұрын

I like that!

Thanks 😊 Joe and nic ❤

It would be nice to spend part of the summer in that third town. But after 45 years in the Midwest, I don't want to see snow again! I'm doing fine in Florida!

Damn, USA es beautiful. I hope visit someday

It’s “Big Sky Country” for a reason. Large state really empty of population, slow life style there too. At one point on the interstate, saw a sign that state next gas station was somewhat like 300 miles away. Crazy. Nothing against Montana, just not for me. Great video!

A couple of nice looking towns in the northern Great Plains -- as you say, there's some beautiful country up there. I like the "dogs-looking-out-the window" sticker on the 2 Basset Brewery Truck at 3:59 and the Dancing Ants photo-stand in at 9:49 (for the Red Ants Pants Music Festival it seems 🙂 ) Maybe someday you can check out the "other" White Sulfur Springs in West Virginia and treat yourselves to a night at the Greenbrier.

@TinkerTailor4303

Ай бұрын

How did you see that sticker at 3:59 so fast??!

@yawndave

Ай бұрын

@@TinkerTailor4303 Heh...well, like our host, I enjoy walking around downtown areas with an eye out for interesting "stuff". I can't say how many times I've paused and rewound videos to check out a random article in Joey's city rambles.

Great video Joe. Now this is beautiful to me. Love Montana and the area. But man these folks are way tougher than me. LoL cause me and all my metal parts holding me together couldn’t handle the winters there. I’m still a hit weather desert guy. LoL and from what few times I was through the state every thing is way out there. LoL but I sure love the privacy it has and beautiful landscape every where. Both those towns are plenty big enough for me. Now just to have a place 10-20 miles out be fine for me. And a house bout like that small log cabin would be just fine. Actually it’s probably a little bit bigger than the little house I’m living in. 13:52 So me and my best buddy my dog have all the room we need. Great job as usual safe travels my friend. Keep filming and I’ll keep watching

Hey Joe great vid! It is beautiful there! There's hardly anyone around which could b nice sometimes!😅. U and Nicole b safe.

@JoeandNicsRoadTrip

Ай бұрын

Thanks 👍

Beautiful unspoilt scenery 😊

My uncle used to run the deli there at the Townsend grocery. Great video.

God i miss this state, the weather, fresh air.. moving back asap.

White Sulphur Springs is known for its Hot Spring where you can soak and relax, also for the Red Ants Pants Festival during the last week of July and it's close to Showdown Ski Area. Townsend is a neat small town along the Missouri River and Canyon Ferry Lake. There is also a neat handblown glass studio in Townsend. There is a Family Dollar on the south side of Townsend.

Welcome to Montana! I think you'd like exploring the small towns out in the eastern half of the state, definitely come by Miles City sometime, my hometown.

I grew up in south western Montana and this looks very familiar, particularly Townsend.🎉 Notice that in May most of the trees are still leafless. Long winters.

I find these small towns very appealing. The only thing I find concerning is the availability of health services. Larger cities tend to have more options. It’s a trade off I guess. Thanks for the tour 😊.

I bet it gets too cold in the winter for me . That looks like one of those towns that everybody knows one another? Looks like pretty scenery.

@JoeandNicsRoadTrip

Ай бұрын

Yes, it gets VERY cold there.

I just checked the weather there, on 10May2024, @0500 hours, the Temp is 30 degrees F, wow, awfully cold for May! Happy Trails y’all !

Dogs are good too.

I live in the desert Southwest where our trees green up in February - March, so i always find it insane to see bare trees in MAY

i love montana, the only thing stopping me is the competition for jobs in these little towns... i dont wanna take a job from a person who was born and raised there tbh there are so little opportunities for younger folk, thats why its a retirement zone lol.

I’d love to see inside the Thrift way store. 😃

Joe and NIc, I like Townsend, but do you see all those peaked roofed houses?. I don't think I would like their winters. Empty rugged state, but Glacier Park is awesome. Some of the best backpacking I ever did. Cheers, Rik Spector

@JoeandNicsRoadTrip

Ай бұрын

It gets very cold there. :)

Cat spotted in the 1st town 7:55 sitting at the door.

Lincoln Montana is a pretty drive about an hour or so from Helena. It has a beef jerky factory, and is the location of the Ted Kacynski's cabin and the post office he mailed things from. Watch for wildlife on the roads lol....

Wow really Kool town of Townsend , just love the sounds of the song birds as your making your way through residential areas! Could easily tell the call of the RedWing Black bird beautiful! Those two dogs were excited to see you and appeared to be very behaved! Once again love the show Joe!

Beautiful there I could live there if not for the weather I’m from TX 🤠

I love Montana

Really appreciate the videos. Shows the real state of America

It’s called the Big Sky for good reason.

Awesome content 🍰🍰💯🔥

@JoeandNicsRoadTrip

Ай бұрын

Thank you 🤗

Meagher County- pronounced as 'Marr'.

Thanks

@JoeandNicsRoadTrip

Ай бұрын

Thank you!

I used to live in harlowton Mt and two dot Montana just an hour east of WSS

Dollar General opened its first store in Montana on September 30, 2023. It is located in Columbia Falls.

There's only a little over a million people in the entire state. Finding rural Montana can't be too much of a challenge.

If you really want to take in the sights go back to Helena, then north on 280 I think, it has been many years for me. Look for, the gates of the mountains river tour. You will experience some of God's best work! You will never forget it.

Montana is so beautiful, my best friend is from Anaconda not far from Townsend.