Idaho’s Top Town

Hunting and fishing

Outdoor Life magazine has selected Idaho Falls as one of the top places in America for sportsmen to live.

“The town sits squarely in the middle of some of the biggest and best sporting country in the world, with a variety of topography that is extraordinary,” the magazine says in its December edition article titled “20 Reasons to Move. Great American sporting towns where you can live your dreams.”

The magazine said big-game hunting “tends to overshadow other sporting opportunities, which are just as good.”

It mentions waterfowl hunting at the Market Lake Wildlife Management Area, upland bird hunting, and fishing on the South Fork and Henry’s Fork of the Snake River.

Runners-up in the West, in order, are Kalispell, Mont.; Fort Collins, Colo.; and Portland.

, DataTimes