Deer Lodge ...
More churches than doctors; more bars than grocery stores; more casinos than restaurants ...
The leading attraction in Deer Lodge is a Prison Museum ...
this does not spell good times for a town.
Actually some efforts at revitalization are peaking through the abandoned town feeling, but there is a long way to go to bring any form of economic revival to this turn of the century town (there is a Go Fund Me site to preserve the Deer Lodge Inn ... currently boarded up, but in a turn of the century building).
Deer Lodge might be a case study for rural towns currently competing to have for-profit prisons placed in their town for jobs ... all that they might have in a decade or so is a Prison Museum. Something to ponder ...
Bambi wanted to remind the town that saguaros don't grow this far north (too cold for them).
The KOA in Deer Lodge is on the Clark Fork River ... sounds picturesque, but it wasn't.
Fortunately, we are done with KOA campgrounds for awhile once we leave here. Bambi has committed himself to stop complaining about KOA campgrounds and from offering unfavorable commentary on some rural communities ... he is going to "clean up" his act (was inspired by the Museum of Clean in Pocatello).
On to Wallace, Idaho ...
1 comment:
Any fish in the river?
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