Top 10 best very small towns in America. My favorite is #2 

To be honest there are many small towns that are amazing. A little secret, nobody from those towns want you to know about their town. They want to keep it a gem. Visit but don't stay.

I don't know why your small town videos give me such a feeling of comfort. It doesn't matter if I've seen em all I always come back to watch them again. It makes me dream of moving from the big city of San Antonio that I live in now and moving to a small town where everyone says hi to each other and the store owners know you by name.

There you go Briggs,keep highlighting the best of the south! WEST VIRGINIA!

I am not gonna lie..I always believed that America was really a God blessed nation....Much much love from Greece bros!!!

Any time , it's said “your town is a great place to live”. You have just cursed your town . Then starts the influx of people , cars , more stores, higher tax's.

I love Wallace Idaho, I’m so happy you included it. I’ve been there twice and I have found the people to be very friendly and kind. I was there at Christmas time the first time and it just lovely. We found several vintage treasures there.

Love EVERY video you do, Briggs!!! Totally professional...always improving and growing! Keep 'em coming!

I live in a small town in Wisconsin and I absolutely love it! I wouldn’t trade living in a small town for anything!

Every town in Iowa is tiny small. I grew up in Audubon, Iowa. Pop.1,000. 80 miles from everywhere....there are lots of jobs and very low rent.

Better criteria and still excludes my favorite place. Thanks. Criteria: Everything within walking distance; good library; a few restuarants; one coffee shop; small ER/hospital.

At my age (60), I really tend to prefer warmer climates. Cedar Keys looks ideal to me! If I ever leave SE NM, I'll definitely head over there. Great video (as always!). I love your vids. Don't ever stop!

"Comcast isn't in Chase County. And that's a good thing." I concur, sir.

Bayfield, Wisconsin. Really small, really incredible. Gateway to the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore on Lake Superior. Orchards, berry farms, forests, islands, hatchery, sail boats, beaches and sun, snow and snow sports. Population: 487.

I recently returned from a camping trip near the California-Oregon border. I visited a town called McCloud, California. It is nestled at the base of Mt. Shasta and is located just off of Volcanic Legacy Scenic Byway. The tiny town is amazing! I plan to return -- but stay at a bed and breakfast!

Definitely make more videos, this was wonderful. I love learning the histories of these towns.

There are several tiny towns along California State Route 49 that have a rich history of the California gold rush. Many have well-preserved buildings dating from the mid 19th century, including fine old Victorian homes. Most are located in the scenic foothills of the Sierra Nevada. They have an artsy vibe with crafts and good restaurants.

Briggs, I use to live near Bell Buckle, TN. Blink of an eye and through it. I like the old timey stores and the Set Up of the Yard Sales.

Hey Briggs! Have to definitely agree with you about Cedar Key (#2). I have been there myself plentty of times and would recommend it to anyone who likes the small--town feel. I like your snippet about the girl from Bronson - when my second wife and I separated, that's where she ended up and married the unfortunate guy she met from there! THANK YOU FOR AN AWESOME VIDEO! Love watching your videos A TON!

Fishing poles from the library ,if you can’t read you can always go fishing .🤓

Thank you for the video..am looking forward to more! I love small mountain towns!!

love your videos im from a small town too keep it up !!

I really enjoy your work. Your voice is perfect and your sense of humor!!!!! Awesome thank you

How cool are those Bell Buckle RC Cola & Moon Pie Fest T-Shirts! I have to get me one of those.

So much fun Briggs!

love your site . . .#2 seems pretty cool

Great vlog. Thank you👍

I was thinking Pinedale, Wyoming would be on the list. I love the town and its surrounded by lakes and mountains. It's very pretty.

Lived in Makanda Illinois for a year. It truly is beautiful area nestled in the Shawnee National Forest.

Great video , my fav small town America is Boring Oregon lived their back in the mid 1980's for a min

If you can, go visit Silverton, CO. It’s a town of 400 and some change and it is nestled within the San Juan Mountains. I went there for a field study in college and spent a week there. The views are absolutely stunning-literally surrounded by mountains. There is also a famous rail line called the Durango-Silverton Line, and it is the scene of a few Westerns

Nice job. You picked some beautiful cities that I too would like to visit. Thank you !!!

I love your show. My son got me hooked on watching your show, many times I've had coffee come out my nose... trust me that hurts! I was born and raised in a suburb outside of Detroit No not Flint, and I had to share your "The Top 10 Reasons Not to move to Michigan" I'm sure my Michigander friends got a kick out of it! Thank you for starting my day with a good laugh!

I will go to USA next august with a friend (we are from Spain). We always listen here about California, NY... but we love you rock, blues and jazz so we will go to the southern and I think we will see thouse villages from Tennessee. Good Video!

Hill City, SD is a really adorable town nustled in the black hills. I stayed there when exploring the national forests and rushmore etc. The population is 1008 (2016 census)

Thank you for a very entertaining visit to some interesting cities. Love the info you share. Also, love your personality. I find you to have a great sense of humor. You make me laugh with your descriptions and comments. Again, Thanks

I really love the fact that you highlight America both good and bad.

Wow, those small towns looked beautiful they look like my kinda towns all of them do.

Small town , high school , late night drive , rainy night ❤️

I really enjoyed this video. Nice looking towns & natural surroundings. Excellent drone work! Thanks!

thank you for being honest about WV. HF is the back road from Baltimore i dont know how they avoided it either, but good for them :-)

I live in Nashville and have driven through Bell Buckle many times. I’ve never spent much time there, but it seems like a really lovely town. I’ve also been to Leaper’s Fork, but only once. Puckett’s Grocery is awesome though.

I am going to plus-1 Harpers Ferry, WV. Although I am from south-central Pennsyltucky, I have been to Harpers Ferry many times over the years. (Yeah. I have my medical and dental care through the Veterans' Health Care Center in Martinsburg WV, just a short drive from Harpers Ferry.) The town is full of stores that sell crafts. Not just tourist junk, but real crafts. And the town really is quite lovely. I will always think it worth a trip.

Cool. I want to visit all of these places. Nice that you spread your picks all over the country! Sharing this on Facebook.

Great video, very funny and informative. Thanks much.

Great work. Keep it up. Your snark is top drawer fun.

Loved it! But you left out a real contender...for its natural beauty...nestled in the Blue Ridge Mtns....as well as the warmth/wit of the locals who have dwelled there for many generations...their pride evident as they share culture and heritage through arts/crafts......music....and wonderful flair for story-telling ! Where is that magical place?......Saluda,NC

Beautiful.Thank you I love your videos.

Ogunquin, Me is my favorite, it gets made tourist and it has a beautiful view of the ocean.

When I think of the word "village" I think of thatched roofs and night monsters that are really village elders in disguise.

you just reminded me of rc cola thank you so much.

Best video yet! Well done Briggs

Nice towns, thank you for sharing.

Is it just coincidence I see the "Smoke House" restaurant on the same corner in Harper's Ferry and Wallis (sp), Idaho?

Harpers Ferry is awesome, I grew up in VA and been to HF several times and love it. Has a very old hotel that many stars from the '40s to the '80s visited, and tons of Civil War history.

Dude you are hysterical!!! Love your channel👍

I thoroughly enjoy your videos.

I remember me and my parents driving across Death Valley in 1983, and I started complaining that I was hungry and thirsty. Now, since there hardly are any populated areas there, it took us a great while to reach a small hamlet somewhere in the middle of nowhere. My parents, being so desperate to stop my constant moaning, even resorted to giving me a can of beer to just make me shut up (I'm German, so there's no big deal in letting your kids have some beer, even though you're only ten). So we pulled up on the parking lot outside this shack where it said "food and drink" and entered. Couple of people at the bar, and my dad asked the barmaid for a menu. No such thing in here, just shout your orders through the hole in the wall. My father, in his heavy German accent, did just that and sat down with me and my mum to wait for our food and drink to arrive. The cook, who was also the owner, a big bald guy, brought us our plates and asked us if we were foreigners. When my father said that we were Germans, he slapped him on the shoulder, told him that we were his guests, because he found it so amazing that a foreign family would come into his place. The other patrons immediately joined in, a middle aged woman producing a photo album from somewhere showing the events that had been happening in their village, an elderly man asking my mum if he could give me some money for the jukebox, etc. It was an amazing experience. Only shame though was that, way back then, I didn't speak any English, since in Germany you won't start learning English until 5th grade, and I was just finishing 4th. But I'm always looking back at that experience I had in small-town America and would love to go back just to ask if anybody remembers, or was told about, that German family from 1983 and their son who didn't speak any English.

I've been to Phoenecia and it's quite lovely. Not far from Woodstock. Cheers!! 👍

I love your videos! Well done!

00:12 I can see my fishing spot! love Harpers Ferry!

I'm from and still live in what was once a tiny drinking village that used to have a really bad fishing problem in Texas. A developer from Florida found it in the early sixties, bought our little island, dug canals and sold lots for less than half the price of those in Florida at the time. The chamber of commerce loved it! About 1980, I met some nice campers at a now famous Texas Hill Country State Park. Back then, it was little more than a rumor. Anyway, got to talking to some folks and that iconic question comes around, "Where ya from?" So I tell them and their exact words were, "We used to go there every summer but it got too big and crowded and lost it's charm." They should see the place now! We solved the fishing problem by letting 250 out of work shrimpers become fishing guides. They helped people from Dallas and Houston that couldn't even spell fish catch and take home almost every single fish in the water. You can hardly catch a single blue crab here today. The oyster reefs are all depleted and the bays are best known as breeding grounds for several varieties of flesh eating bacteria. We actually improved our drinking status, even though several of the historic bars are long gone. The worse the police got about arresting drunk drivers - Come on vacation, leave on probation! -we went from two liquor stores to fifteen. Party on! Just do it at home or in your room or rental. The island sold out every single lot, the houses aged into decline, we got hit by a hurricane, some didn't even bother to rebuild, but they did take the cash and got out of town. Before that, Walmart found us, built a super center and put everybody but the art dealers, real estate agencies and bait shops out of business. If Walmart only knew, they'd sell real estate, art and bait. For some strange reason I cannot for the life of me fathom, the place still doubles or triples in population every weekend in summer and about half that increase during winter. Yes, it was once a young fisherman's delight. A short walk to the beach or harbor to catch dinner in under an hour and meet some young sweet thing vacationing with her parents on the way home. Now it's a bunch of old folks like myself listening for meth labs exploding and sirens carrying our old friends to the hospital. But we did have a great run there for a while in the sixties!

Been through Wallace a couple times. It is a nice town. They filmed Dante's Peak there. Nice video Jimmy!

I just live about 30 minutes from Makanda, Illinois that made your list and it’s great to see it on here! Running into Makanda is Giant City State Park which is a great place to visit when you’re around Makanda too. There are great walking trails to fit any abilities, playgrounds, a water tower to climb with excellent views of Bald Knob Cross and all around southern Illinois. Sorry I sound like a commercial 😂

Hi, I really love your interesting videos about different places!!! Thx for all u do to create n post these. Plz keep em coming. Maybe you can do part two on top 10 places, like then next ten after the top ten, like the top 20 of small towns. Also add some w Haunted History in them too. I love to learn all about the different towns History!!!!!! Again Thank You !!!!!

The two Tennessee small towns are my favorite. I guess since I was born and raised in a small town of Tennessee.

I’d love to live in a small town when I’m older the kind of thing where you know half the town and it has some cool history and stuff.

Love your videos, planning a trip to a few of the towns in Tenn. you mentioned, thanx!

Thank you so much Awesome videos

Hey man! Cool stuff! I love the channel and just subscribed. I gotta say, the south west is criminally underrepresented in this list. Bisbee Az and Cloudcroft NM?

I live in Alma Wisconsin and it's a very beautiful town.

I've been to Bell Buckle many times over the years. Such a beautiful community:)

Good stuff ,Briggs😀👍🏼

Wallice ID sounds like my kind of place. Hope to visit someday!

LOL....I was stationed at Ft Benning way back in the 60's and have fished that stream in Phoenicia. Benning sucked, but the stream is great. I live in a small village south of Phoenicia with 900-1000 people, one main street, one traffic light. Been here 42 years now, think I'll stay.

My favorite small town is Gettysburg, PA. History, Ghosts, Shopping, nice locals- can’t beat it. Once you visit Gettysburg and really understand what happened there- it becomes a part of you.

I knew Harper's Ferry right away. Have loved the area since I was 13.

Two of my favorites. Chimney Rock , and Lake Lure NC.

west virginia, blue ridge mountain, shenandoah rivers. Life is old there, older than the trees. Younger than the mountain, blowing like a breeze

love your videos thanks

Remembering that you live in Portland, a nice summer trip is heading west from Portland on Highway 30 out to Astoria. Cross the bridge then come back. You'll find some very interesting little towns.😊

Eureka Springs, Arkansas...2200 pop....old town....hilly, treed, quaint.

There's a place called Hershey Maine 79 residents Right next to Patten Maine Very small town living Maine is full of tiny towns And they are awesome

Awesome selection, mate :)

Great Video. Much love and respect from Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Jerome, Arizona should be on this list

I'm pretty sure that to reside in Harper's Ferry you have to be one of the original signers of the Declaration of Independence. Really, residency is limited.

Love the videos, Briggs. Check out Fort Rock, Oregon for one of your small town vids. Tons of history and beautiful.

Great video! Keep them coming! Great 👍 job!

6:51 (Augusta, Montana): “Known as the last original cow town in the West”... Not Vacaville, California? 😏

Malden, Missouri a great small town very friendly people

Perfect for a peaceful retirement plan! Small towns have such charm. Love #2 as well! Thanks for the great picks. 😊

THX THIS HELPED ME WITH MY HOMEWORK

I have been to Cedar Key and I love the place. It’s my dream retirement place to live.

Have a few of those small towns here in North Dakota. Haha

I enjoy your videos! I’ve watched the 10 worst and best towns in Alabama. Very informative. You are very entertaining! And the subjects are great.

Just found your channel you’ve got a wicked sense of hummer just watched best small towns in pa Williamsport is the best!

Recluse, Wyoming. You're welcome.

Impressed that two of the towns on this list are from my home state of Tennessee. I got a flat tire in Bell Buckle once, and inside of 60 seconds of pulling off the road I had seven people walk up and offer to help.

I am new to your channel and so far love all of your top 10 lists! I was wondering who does the music in this video? I've heard the music in several of your videos too.

Thanks!