My Top Ten Favorite Perks of Living in Whitefish
10) The Hugh Rogers Dog Park.
9) Stillwater Bar in Olney.
8) Crystal Lakes Vintage Air Museum ( see recent photos of my trip here).
7) River floats with Kip down the Whitefish River from City Beach on the lake to Riverside Park.
6) The caesar salad at The Whitefish Lake Restaurant (The Whitefish Golf Course) with several giant grilled shrimp in the main dining room and a glass of house red.
5) Sunset with a mojito (ask for it in the chilled copper mug) on Casey’s Rooftop Deck.
4) Weekly 1$ Beer nights at The Great Northern Bar and Grill (Miller Monday; PBR Wed; Rainier on Thursdays.)
3) Vaqueros Mexican Food aka Los Caporales in Columbia Falls.
2) The peppercorn dressing on the house salad at Backslope Brewery.
1) The happy hour and grilled tenderloin at the Grouse Mountain Lodge on the patio overlooking the golf course.
Bonus 5:
The Tiki Bar at the Whitefish Lake Lodge
Yuletide Affair (holiday show) by The Alpine Theatre Project.
The top ten rated Whitefish Ski Resort.
Glacier National Park.
Sticking googly eyes on my dog’s butt and walking around town!
Another Bonus 10:
11) Winter Carnival.
12) The Farmers Markets all summer.
13) Polebridge Mercantile (get a bear claw, then check out Bowman or Kintla Lake).
14) Huckleberry pancakes at Jerry’s Saloon in Fortine.
15) Trego Pub, pay it forward.
16) The Humane Society of Northwest Montana where I got my dog Kip and his two cat sisters Katie and Alice.
17) Murdochs in Columbia Falls (where I get my baby chickens).
18) Sunset Roost Farms where I got the incubated eggs I put under Kellyanne when she got broody this summer and hatched 6 of 12 eggs into the gaggle half-feathered little dinosaur-looking hatchlings roaming around my backyard so far only named:
The Montucky 6.
19) The Skyles Overlook on the Whitefish Trail System.
20) How knowledgeable the people in the fly fishing section are at Sportsman Haus. This is also where I bought my snow skis and my Boggs!
Extra Bonus 3:
-Fly fishing for Grayling at Red Meadow Lake.
-The drive from Grave Creek to Polebridge.
-Second Street Pizza (1 James III Pizza, 4 ranch Dressing, 1 House Salad, 1 Second Street Wings).
If there’s 1 perk left to share it is that people here look you in the eye, smile and say hello when they pass you in the street and we wave when passing on country roads because we all share the common bond of appreciation for nature and one another.
Whitefish is a beautiful place to live. Make your investment in a dream home today!
