{"id":889,"date":"2011-07-08T14:48:36","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T14:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/?p=889"},"modified":"2014-09-08T14:50:42","modified_gmt":"2014-09-08T14:50:42","slug":"usa-today-the-five-best-small-towns-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/usa-today-the-five-best-small-towns-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"USA Today The five best small towns in America"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Bob Riha, Jr., USA TODAY\u00a0http:\/\/travel.usatoday.com\/destinations\/story\/2011\/07\/The-five-best-small-towns-in-America\/49573514\/1<\/a><\/p>\n

Majestic views of the forests and Lake Pend Oreille near the Schweitzer Mountain Resort await visitors in Sandpoint, Idaho.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Most beautiful\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Sandpoint, Idaho\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Team that visited:\u00a0<\/b>Daniel and JoAnne Schaub (“The McNavigators”) of Cary, N.C.<\/p>\n

What made it stand out:\u00a0<\/b>Located on pristine Lake Pend Oreille in the Idaho Panhandle about an hour and a half east of Spokane, Wash., “Sandpoint isn’t just a ‘drive through and let’s stop here’ place,” the Schaubs say. “Its quaint downtown shops and restaurants welcomed us in, and its landscape kept us in awe.”<\/p>\n

Don’t miss:\u00a0<\/b>From a chairlift ride to the top of the local ski area,\u00a0Schweitzer Mountain<\/a>, “you can stand in Idaho and see Canada, Montana and Washington. At 6,400 feet, the expansive view kept us so mesmerized we missed our lunch date \u2014 and we had a snowball fight in July.”<\/p>\n

Biggest surprise:\u00a0<\/b>Sandpoint’s mountain setting on the shores of one of the country’s deepest lakes. “Being from\u00a0North Carolina<\/a>, we hadn’t heard much about Idaho,” the Schaubs admit. “We knew there were a lot of potatoes, and that’s about it.”<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

USA today names Sandpoint Idaho the most beautiful town in America<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[269],"class_list":["post-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sandpoint-accolades","tag-sandpoint-idaho-most-beautiful"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":947,"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions\/947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakeandhomes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}