1. Medora
2. Jamestown
3. Valley City
1. Deadwood
2. Hot Springs
3. Custer
1. Cottonwood Falls
2. Lindsborg
3. Kansas Old Route 66 towns (Galena, Riverton, and Baxter Springs)
1. Ste. Genevieve
2. Hannibal
3. Cuba (Missouri Old Route 66 town)
Honorable mention to St. Charles, which is too large for our “small towns” definition.
Iowa
1. Amana Colonies
2. Riverside
3. Pella
Illinois
1. Galena
Paul Bunyon Hot Dog Statue, Atlanta
2. Illinois Old Route 66 towns (e.g., Pontiac, Atlanta, Lincoln)
Grafton, Illinois
3. Great River Road towns of Illinois (e.g., Nauvoo, Grafton, Alton)
Indiana
Bartholomew County Courthouse and the Commons, Columbus, Indiana
1. Columbus
Bridgeton Covered Bridge and Bridgeton Mill, Parke County, Indiana
2. Parke County covered bridge towns
Town of Nashville
3. Nashville
Ohio
1. Zoar
Peninsula Depot, Peninsula, Ohio – Cuyahoga Valley National Park
2. Peninsula
Yellow Springs
3. Yellow Springs
Michigan
Huron Street, City of Mackinac Island
1. Mackinac Island
National Blueberry Festival, Downtown South Haven
2. Michigan Riviera towns (e.g., New Buffalo, St. Joseph, South Haven, Saugatuck)
Fish Town on the right bank, in Leland, Michigan, port to the Manitou Islands of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore
3. Sleeping Bear Dunes towns (e.g., Glen Arbor, Leland, Northport, Suttons Bay) and nearby Traverse City
Wisconsin
Egg Harbor, Door County, Wisconsin
Sturgeon Bay, Door County, Wisconsin
1. Door County towns
Downtown Wisconsin Dells
2. Wisconsin Dells
Mineral Point, Wisconsin
3. Mineral Point
Minnesota
1. Stillwater
2. Red Wing
3. New Ulm