FLATHEaD VaLLeY
THE FLATHEAD VALLEY can be summed up in a word: “RECESS!”
Sailboats, canoes and jet skis dot dozens of lakes, including Flathead
Lake. Children splash along beaches. Brightly colored roadside stands
tempt passersby with fresh-picked cherries. The lakeshore villages of
Bigfork, Lakeside and Somers buzz with visitors shopping galleries, seeing
plays at local playhouses, antiquing, and eating ice cream cones. And
golfers are treated to mountain vistas at nearly every tee, on some of
North America’s best golf courses.
Recess spills over into town, too. Just check out the atmosphere
in Kalispell, the county seat and valley’s economic center. Whitefish,
a historic railroad town, is a vibrant mountain community with fine restaurants
and some of the West’s best lodges and inns.To the east, the timber
town of Columbia Falls stands on the doorstep of Glacier National Park.
In fact, anywhere in the Flathead Valley makes a great base camp for
trips into the park.
In winter, the playground stays open, with skiing at Big
Mountain and Blacktail Mountain, snowshoeing in Glacier National Park,
skating at the Whitefish ice rink, cross-country skiing trails galore,
and snowmobiling out of Columbia Falls. If your favorite subjects in school
were recess, recess and recess, you’re going to like the Flathead
Valley.
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