We Are Now At The Top 10 Best Little Towns To Shop In Or To Just Visit

Hello Shoppers,
Now we are down to the Top Ten Little Towns 90 towns out of the way. If you have been on vacation driving around the States I hope you have visit at lest one of the towns I have talked about. But we are down to the Top 10 Best Towns. I will be talking about 5 at a time, so lets get going!

#10 Mackinac Island Area, MI.
This is the place that I proposed to my wife at. We were going across to Mackinac Island on the ferry. And after that we had a great day on the Island. It's become a cliche to say that arriving by ferry at an island's harborside village is like stepping back in time and I know that this is vary true. This is how true it is, you will wonder if the idea originated on this Gilded Age holdover.
The queen of Victorian Era resorts, a bluff over the waters between Michigan's peninsulas. Because cars are not aloud there, the signature sound is the clip-clop of horse's hooves. Visitors take carriage tours, ride bikes, taste famous fudge and tour the 1700s fort. Back on the mainland, explore the island's gateways, St. Ignace (population: 2,700) and Mackinaw City (population: 860), linked by the five-mile Mackinac Bridge. This is a great place.

#9 Stillwater, MN
The timber of the St. Croix River Valley on the Minnesota/Wisconsin border built the fortunes behind Stillwaters Victorian mansions, and the forest and craggy river valley still supply scenery visitors love. The town (population 17,200) about 20 miles east of Saint Paul lures travelers with an irresistible mix: a dozen inns and a historic downtown sprinkled with antiques shops and bookstores that bring collectors from all over the world. Short drives lead to notable towns, including Marine on St. Croix and Taylors Falls. Train and riverboat tours are staples. Plus, Stillwater offers one of the regions most surprising boat tours: St. Croix cruises in a gondola built in Venice, Italy.

#8 Put-in-Bay, OH
This is a storybook family getaway is just a ferry ride away from northwest Ohio's Lake Erie shoreline. Only boats connect South Bass Island and its town of Put-in-Bay (population: 128) to the mainland, so most visitors leave cars behind. That usually reduces the traffic noise among shops and restaurants to no more then the hum of golf carts and jingle of bells on rental bicycles. Family attractions fill the island, including museums, cave tours, fishing charters and a 1917 carousel. For the best view, climb the 352-foot Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial, a white column commemorating a U.S. victory in the War of 1812. This another great place to go and have a lot of fun.

#7 Bayfield, WI
Here, Lake Superior adventure awaits visitors to this town of 600 on the Bayfield Peninsula. Lake jewels tossed into the sapphire water, the 22 Apostle Islands lie just offshore. On summer days, Bayfield's harbor is full of kayaks and tour boats going to and from the beaches, lighthouses and from the legendary archipelago. More relaxed explorers ride ferries to Madeline Island, the only inhabited Apostle, which offers shops, a renowned beach, a museum and places to eat. The shops, inns and restaurants of Bayfield look down from hills along the lake. The surrounding peninsula is marked by pay-on-your-honor berry and apple stands and an absence of chain stores. Most summer nights bring performing arts under the old-fashioned Big Top Chautauqua tent.

#6 Nashville, IN
I think everyone knows about this one, but here it is. So-called progress never quite made it to Nashville, the seat of Brown County, a haven of hills and forests 55 miles south of Indianapolis. That's fine with the artists who live and work in studios tucked amid the town's 250 shops and the countryside. The artists colony founded by the Indiana painter T.C. Steele, who was drawn by the vistas that seem to spread from every hilltop, celebrates its 100th anniversary this year. The woodsy setting around Nashville (population: 1,000) also suits hikers and others who explore nearby Brown County State Park, Indiana's largest.

We are now down to the Top 5 Best Small Town In The U.S.A. I will be talking about them tomorrow. Until then, STAY SHOPPING!!