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Towns with breweries see an influx of outdoor lovers. Why? Because adventurers flock to beer.

How Beer Can Save a Town

Craft breweries inject culture, youth, and cash into communities. It’s no wonder towns across the country are fighting to get one.

Will Cockrell
Aug 15, 2018
Pave paradise, but skip the parking lot.

How to Create the Perfect Waterfront

Developers want rivers lined with high-rises and environmentalists want reintroduction of native grasses. A successful waterfront revitalization needs both.

Will Cockrell
Aug 15, 2018
For all its attributes, you’d think Libby would be a regular contender in Outside’s annual Best Towns competition, like Telluride, Colorado, or Burlington, Vermont—but it has some baggage.

So You Want to Be a Dream Town?

How does a city turn itself from a backwater to one of Outside's Best Towns? Libby, Montana, is trying to figure it out.

Jacob Baynham
Aug 31, 2016