TOUR THE TOWNS!

America's Coolest Small Towns

Tuesday, Sep 22, 2009, 12:00 AM | Subscribe to the magazine

Highway 1 near Cayucos, Calif. (Amanda Friedman)
Jacksonville, Ore. (John Clark)
Maison Des Amis B&B in Breaux Bridge, La. (Chris Granger)
Main Street in Lexington, Va., lined with 19th-century storefronts. (Courtesy Nathan Beck)
Tubac, Ariz., and the Santa Rita Mountains. (Jeff Topping/The New York Times/Redux)
Route of the Hiawatha, a trail outside Wallace, Idaho. (Tegra Nuess)
Our Bookshop, one of Saugerties, N.Y.,'s three bookstores. (Brad DeCecco/braddececco.com)
Breakwater Lighthouse in Rockland, Maine. (Courtesy rpjwalter/myBudgetTravel)
Artist Mark Benesh's version of American Gothic, on a barn outside Mount Vernon, Iowa. (Sandy Dyas)
Central Avenue in Whitefish, Mont. (Janie Osborne)