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Thanks for the northwest geographical recommendations, folks.

North Idaho is honestly what got me looking at the NW in the first place. I saw the movie DANTE'S PEAK, and at the beginning when they pulled back on that idyllic little downtown area, I said, "I don't know where that is, but I want to live there." When I saw the lake in front of Grandma's cabin, I stared with my mouth open. I did a lot of research and found that the little town was Wallace, Idaho. Grandma's cabin was in some entirely different area, but still North Idaho. Spectacularly beautiful.

Any certain areas to recommend within North Idaho, TLI?

MM

Okay, here's your inside info on the most beautiful places in the NW that aren't owned by Uncle Sam or crawling with libs. Almost any little town in North Idaho has got spectacular scenery, and the same beautiful mountains and forests cross over into western Montana. The western half of Montana was actually supposed to be Idaho but the government surveyors got lost when they came to the place where the Continental Divide crosses the Bitterroot Mountains and they followed the wrong set of mountains. When they were done Idaho got that skinny little panhandle and Montana was one huge state. Another messed-up government project. Also, once you get away from Seattle, almost any small town in Washington is conservative and scenic. It's not called the Evergreen State for nada. Good luck on finding your Shangri-La.