Pretty Spot....Not Much To Do
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11/19/2007
I lived in Mullan for about six months in 2003. It's basically a ghost town in the Northern Idaho Panhandle, hard on the Montana line in a mountainous valley. Interstate 90 runs right through the town. There's one operating silver mine still open right outside town limits, but many others in Silver Valley area are shut down. One of the largest Super Fund cleanup areas in the nation as a result of the former mining activity. Still, very beautiful and the cleanup has resulted in an extensive trail system (but you're not to step off the trails or your children might be born resembling aliens!). Housing can be cheap, cheap: back in 2003, you could buy perfectly fine looking houses for $7000 (even though they didn't have foundations other than a bed of logs). I had a beautiful apartment in a somewhat renovated old hotel for $150/month. Wallace, the Shoshone County seat nearby, is where one shops and is also very scenic: it was the stand in for the mythical town of Dante's Peak in the film of the same name starring Pierce Brosnan and Linda Hamilton.
Patrick | Springfield, OR