Exploring Small Town America: Battle Ground, Washington 

Nice little town! When I hear "There's not much exciting there" my ears perk up. I'm an introvert who likes to stay home and have it quiet, lol!

I love how green Oregon and Washington are, reminds me of northern California where we live, except for the summer heat.

Columbia Adventist Academy was boarding school in the 1960's. Still there. I graduated in 1966.

I lived there in the '80s. Battle Ground Lake used to be a fave

I lived in Battleground for many years, so I was happy to see this video. My kids went to school there most of their lives. I had an Uncle who owned a large wooded & very secluded property where the Indians had their homes in the mountain, before their disagreement with the fort. There's a sign in front of the Police Dept. that tells the story. There are still arrowheads a ways outside the town area on a property which my uncle lived on & protected out of his respect for the native people. He wouldn't let anyone go dig them up, although he was asked. Including archeology students, as I was told. Since he passed, I don't know what happened to that beautiful property, or the arrowheads. The town also watched Mt. St. Helens erupt, which was scary! I retired to another state that isn't nearly as lush & beautiful as Battle Ground is, but it's sure much cheaper to live in.

God I love this channel. All the serotonin I need to scratch my traveling itch. Appreciate it Briggs!

I've lived here my whole life. Im glad you covered our little city/town!

Thanks Briggs! I have friends who live in Battle Ground. I last visited there about 20 years ago, it's nice to see how it has grown. 😀

I live in BG. Well, outside the town because traffic in our town is horrible. Development is rampant. Hot weather is really getting serious. Not sure about drinking water in the future. We even have dry snow in the winter. Shocking. Good luck.

Having grown up in near by La Center, it is nice to see Battle Ground getting some love. My sister lived there for a while with her family. A lot of the smaller towns in the area seem to all be growing (Battle Ground, Ridgefield, La Center, Woodland). Watching these videos make me miss home, especially since I am now living in Arizona and its 108 outside 😅

I live in Vancouver, but spend a lot of my time in Battleground and Hockinson. It’s just so pretty out there. So much nature to get lost in. So quiet, and everyone is so friendly. Always looking for hiking friends! A bunch of us try to go every Tuesday! We were at St Lucia last week, super fun!

Thanks. Love to hear about wa state

Those Cows on Andy's Food Basket have been painted there since at least 2001 when I originally moved there

small here, sorta. crime rate is getting as bad as Vancouver. More peaceful though.Great for those who enjoy the outdoors.

My dad lived in Battle Ground Washington up until a few months ago.

I am a direct battle ground resident, and honestly, with the exception of extremists overrunning the place, it’s a calm and nice town. The area is blowing up with new residents and commercial industry. The place has shot up like crazy in the last 15 years and I expect it to grow massively to the point where I wouldn’t consider this place a small town within 20 years from now

Please do a video on Ellensburg Washington

I have lived in Battle Ground since 1970. And I still live here!

Have a good friend that lives there. Beautiful place!

The video is a little misleading. In addition to the small town shops, the city has large commercial retailers like Walmart, Fred Meyer, and Home Depot. It also has chain restaurants like Taco Bell, Red Robyn. and Mod Pizza.

Have you viewed Brush Prairie/Hockinson?

I lived there for several years in the late 70s and early 80s (except I drove north to Amboy every day rather than south to Vancouver/PDX). It's growth since those days is just amazing...Main Street doesn't seem to have changed much, but all the big stores and fast food chains out near the SR 502-503 intersection make it a far different place than it was back then.

I grew up just north of Battleground. So I really enjoyed this video. 👍🏻

I grew up in Hockinson. Your history isn't quite perfect. I took swimming lessons in the wooden pools at Battle Ground Lake in 1952. You should have an older resident to help you with the history. Nice video though.

Lived there in 1987, my ex wasa popefitter & me & r 2 youngest children... lived there 4 bout 4 months... beautiful town & area... ty, 4 sharing this✌❤🙏

Hi Briggs. Still laughing. McMuffin clocked you. Sorry, but you put a vision in my head of her sneaking in a "silent left hoof". Have a great week.

Moved to Battle Ground from DFW area back in November, I'm loving it and my property tax got cut in half. Also it's almost worth being here for Barrel Mountain Brewing alone, such great food and drinks.

I currently live here in Battle Ground, definitely 7/10. But we're more of an Off-Grid family. We'll be moving to go live in the Washington backwoods soon.

Love your back stories on the small towns!

Thank you for your videos. I love the humor you put in your videos. It is one thing I try to remember when I am doing a video.

Thank you, Briggs!

This kinda feels like my home town, and I love that feeling, as long as it’s close ro a bigger town or city that has a car scene I would be happy. As long as it also has a good coffee place, and nice roads

Thank you for the history of the place. It is one of the nice towns and expanding in SW Washington for sure.

I live near there. In fact my job is in Battle Ground. In fact, he drove directly past my work in this video!

Thank you for the video!

Thanks for making this type of video. I want to move the family to the north west, and it is nice to see less common options. If possible you should look at lake town/cities in the north west

Battle Ground is another bedroom community of Vancouver.

you should do tweekerville usa, Longview wa

The biggest crime I Remeber was an Arson, if I remember 3 teens blew up someone’s house, now it’s like a monument that I drive by every day

I’ve been enjoying your videos. We are moving out to this area next year and these videos gives us a nice snapshot of the area.

Unfortunately for those of us who grew up here it’s been ruined by rapid development over the past decade 😔

Thanks for the video.

*Smiles* Another great vid! Question is... how did the pig look afterwards, 🙂 Thank you for the Sunday smile, Mr Briggs

Wow! I live here. Thanks explore page!

"Some sheds there, serial killer probably keeps some people there". Briggs, you crack me up. This is Washington State home of Gary Ridgeway and Ted Bundy, could happen again.

Hey man I am a current resident of battleground of over 16 years and some of my family much longer it's a tiny place with not much to do but at the same time it's an amazing place to live for the most part we have a very nice skate park and community center and there is a lot place to go eat and just hang out

This is wild to see, I used to live in Gardenside Apartments.

I’ve played high school sports against Battle Ground. My son has also. It’s a nice little town. Many of the little towns along the Columbia River. Stevenson is nice, and you have done Camas already. Ridgefield, Washougal, Stevenson, White River are all nice sleepy little burgs. The only downside is that you better be independently wealthy, retired or own an internet business because there’s definitely some soft spots in the local economies. I have friends who live or have lived in most of these places and the jobs outlook is the biggest negative. Otherwise they are nice places.

Battleground is now just as crowded as Vancouver and getting worse.

My Sister lives 12 min from there since 1990’s very pretty area 🌻

There's a family-based religious faction in Battleground and they nearly own the place. Something like Mormons but if you want to do anything commercial (building, etc), you have to deal with them. And they're crazy.

Serial killer in BG...lol Lots of cars being broken into here, catalytic converters stolen & cars stolen recently and later found in the Portland area...😞😞

Not so little, anymore, though its still a nice place, I'm sure. But, towns like this lose a lot of their original charm, and the housing costs skyrocket, when they grow so much larger and at such a fast pace. I'll pick another spot, personally, thank you, one that still has its small town charm and ambiance, AND till has its affordable housing. Nice video.

Thanks for posting. I used to live and work in Vancouver, WA back in 2011. Great community. Now do Happy Valley, Oregon or Gresham, Oregon.

I wouldn't consider Battle Ground a small town When I think SW Washington small town, Stevenson or Yacolt always comes to mind.

Ah yes, Battle Ground WA. Basically suburb of suburb of Portland

I use to live there and moved away I didn't really care for it because it so so big now I really miss it

I live just a few minutes South in Brush Prairie, Battle Ground would probably be 5k-10k people bigger if the City Council had not halted all housing development for a few years so the infrastructure, schools etc could catch up. The downtown is exceptionally small for a town of 20k because a lot of people just run into Vancouver or Orchards for stuff, although West of downtown a lot of businesses have popped up with direct link to I-5 now built. Nice thing about Battle Ground is the two big parks just a mile or two from town, Lewisville County Park on the river and Battle Ground Lake state park. I was literally walking distance from town at the old scout camp on the river across from Lewisville Park when I ran into a bear with a attitude a few years ago. Cost of acreage is pretty obscene in the area though thanks to well off Portlanders ( aka former Californians) fleeing the city.

Battle Ground is a great little place. Some good restaurants, and cute antique shops too. I wasn't aware they had such a low crime rate. Good information! Good video too.

Dude, you didn't go all the way down main street. There's a lot more there. Especially Burgerville and Tiger Bowl.

Wow! Battle Ground has grown since the last time I was there (35 years ago). When I lived in Camas (another small town video) with my ex, his family lived in Battle Ground so we’d go up and see them. At the time, I thought it was a boring little town (I was in my 20’s then). Now, it seems like Heaven. Thanks Briggs!

My oldest daughter looked at that area and more. She ended up getting a place in Portland near Marshall Park. I'll find out what it's about soon enough.

You should do a short of Larch Mountain (wa side) if you haven’t already! It’s a cool drive up! In all seriousness I love your channel, I’d be happy to buy you a discover pass. I just like seeing vids of the backyard. ☺️

So nice to the town I grew up in mentioned on RU-vid

Nice! These videos are nice with the history and stats and up-close views... a great channel! I tell others all about your channel.

can you do a video about goldendale wa

Very nice Lake to walk around, too. 😀

actually they have a third school, called Columbia Academy

You left out the best part the lewis river

I played and won a paintball tournament there years ago at battleground paintball

Thanks Briggs. How about throw in those info about Hospital and Internet like you did with your best small town videos also. Is it possible for you to add in drone shot while you walking around so we can get a better view of the size and layout of the area?

I gotta say, your background music for this series has been great. blues, lo-fi, I love it. coming from another (much less successful) content creator, where do you get your background tracks from?

Briggs!! Stop!! Those pretty open fields are being gobbled up by housing developments as we speak! And I probably shouldn't say this-but there are some beautiful state & county parks near Battle Ground.

I have lived in Battle Ground my entire life, almost 40 years. This video is nice but I am curious why you only showed the old part of town? I understand if your objective was to show the more idyllic part of town but there’s a whole other huge section of our town. And I know that the video is short for a reason but it’s a tiny bit misleading. Although it is nice for old town to get some love.

Please consider featuring Castle Rock, WA! Cute little downtown area and not too far from Portland!

Also it would be nice to know the average price of trailer parks/RV parks. For use poor white trailer trash, living the life of ease. I retired wanted to spend a month hear a month there, but RV parks are damn expensive...

Yakima is experiencing amazing growth right now, so many new houses are/were being built in the west and east valley

Good video , thanks for sharing , I also take landscape videos in UK and sometimes abroad .It's very helpful and interesting . I subscribed to the channel, so I'm looking forward to it. Thank you for the good video

I had to move out 4 years ago because the city made it illegal to park my truck on the street.

Battleground has turned to junk. The crime rates out there are extremely scary. Every night is always something different. And let's not forget the cost of living over is is horrible. High cost of living.

You didn’t even show some of the busier shopping area of the town??? It is mush more updated that the old part you showed!!!

So, why are people moving to Battleground? It would be nice to hear what festivities or other activities happen at that location.

I’ve been looking into battleground for about a year now because of tax reasons. I can shop in Oregon(no sales tax) and live in Washington (no state income tax). It’s a great spot. Hopefully they have room when I’m ready to make the move in a few years

Should you have mentioned the Apostolic congregations?

Maybe Longview WA as a place for folks who are trying to get out of Portland/Vancouver. I know of some of the issues with it, but now curious on your thoughts as it's been in my consideration list as a bit more out of the way from the Portland/Vancouver area, but decent sized enough that it has some downtown, stores and things to do. But the one major turnoff I know of has me leaning away from there. :) Also, was born in raised in Oregon, and you almost have me wanting to move back. Only thing keeping me away is the income tax. I want to be back around the Salem Oregon area as all my family is there and I miss them. That and I miss a lot of things about Oregon. Currently up in Whatcom County Washington which I very much enjoy and would miss as well for various reasons.

Crazy seeing where I drive around almost daily. Trying to get outta this area 🤦 it's just as bad as everywhere.

drove to west seattle a few days ago and passed this town on the way. what a coincidence

It’s tract home, not track home.

Thank You. I spent many days and night's in Battle Ground with my sister Nancy who lived on Grace St. next to Punks Muffler's. It's a Great little town with a lot of community spirit. Many weekends spent at Battle Ground Lake before they decided to charge an arm and a leg just to swim or fish. It used to be Free. Plenty of Halloween's spent on Main St walking both sides to Trick or Treat with the community. Christmas time gathering to watch the Lighting of the Christmas Tree in front of the Police Station and singing together. The night Glows of the Hot Air Balloons as we all young and old laid on the ground surrounding the Balloons holding hands. Great Times, Good People and Forever Great Memories. Thank You So Much Briggs ! ❤️

Looks like a pleasant town. Nice rose garden

They need MORE restaurants... Burger King and Chipotle were not upgrades.

It’s actually pretty big

I deliver Amazon packages all day every day from North Portland to Salem Beaverton Gresham Vancouver Camas and even battleground every single day sucks ass it is not good nothing special do not relocate unless you have nothing to do

But how many weed dispensaries do they have. I know Clarkston WA, has three within three blocks of each other. Do a video on which state and cities have the most weed shops. By weed I mean marijuana of course, not dandelions.

Hey Briggs should I be typing, or should I stop...?

I can't tell BG from Camas. I feel like the next one is going to be Aberdeen.

If it has a church turned into a coffee shop...its already looking bad.

If you consider 20k people a small town, should do Moses Lake WA 🤣🤣🤣. Thats our biggest town in our county. The rest are TRUE small towns.

Come see us in Port Orchard!

That's one of those places the city will move to you.