America's Coolest Desert Towns (college, living, design)

[Nanny Goat]

Jerome, AZ--you have the old hospital turned into a hotel, reportedly haunted. Lots of history around it. Fun place. Never got to Bisbee.

[that412]

Santa Fe, NM
Silver City, NM
Bisbee, AZ
Jerome, AZ
Taos, NM
Bend, OR
Cortez, CO
Fort Davis, TX
Madrid, NM
Pioche, NV
Austin, NV
Alturas, CA
Bishop, CA
Burns, OR
Jarbidge, NV (if only for possibly being the most remote town in the lower 48)

[tom77falcons]

Originally Posted by BMI

Jerome, AZ
Rachel, NV
Page, AZ
Searchlight, NV
Truth or Consequences, NM
Bisbee, AZ
Dubois, WY
Aztec, NM
Sierra Vista, AZ
La Luz, NM

Yes, very different to anything you would find in Canada, and why I mentioned the much smaller climate diversity in Canada vs the US in the thread that was closed down.

[MattieJensen]

Originally Posted by caphillsea77

Virginia City, NV
Bend, Oregon
Winslow, AZ
Marfa, Texas
Grand Junction, CO
Silver City, NM
Moab, Utah
Taos, NM
Yakima, WA
Borrego Springs, CA
Terlingua, Texas
St. George, Utah
Palm Springs, CA
Tubac, AZ

Scratch Winslow, Bend, Grand Jct, Yakima and St George - they are not in the desert.

Add Sanderson-Dryden, Tx

[MattieJensen]

Originally Posted by BMI

Jerome, AZ
Rachel, NV
Page, AZ
Searchlight, NV
Truth or Consequences, NM
Bisbee, AZ
Dubois, WY
Aztec, NM
Sierra Vista, AZ
La Luz, NM

Dubois is just outside of Jackson Hole and not in any desert.

[Champ le monstre du lac]

Originally Posted by MattieJensen

Scratch Winslow, Bend, Grand Jct, Yakima and St George - they are not in the desert.

Add Sanderson-Dryden, Tx

Winslow most certainly is desert. What do you call this? https://www.google.com/maps/place/Wi...c851aff51726e8

St. George is definitely desert as well........
https://www.google.com/maps/place/St...1707f2f8a11c1e

[Deezus]

Originally Posted by caphillsea77

Winslow most certainly is desert. What do you call this? https://www.google.com/maps/place/Wi...c851aff51726e8

St. George is definitely desert as well........
https://www.google.com/maps/place/St...1707f2f8a11c1e

Yeah I fail to see how either places isn't in the middle of a desert--both areas look and feel obviously like the desert and both recieve less than 10 inches of rainfall a year (which often the baseline for what's considered a desert).

Bend, Oregon is on the edge of the Cascades and the High Desert, so it's more of a mountain town for the the most part--especially in feel on it's west-side and starts to feel drier and more desertlike to the east or northeast or southeast of town.

[MattieJensen]

Originally Posted by caphillsea77

Winslow most certainly is desert. What do you call this?
St. George is definitely desert as well....

Outside St George just scrub land - but not in town
http://www.google.com/maps/place/St+...1707f2f8a11c1e

Really - ever been there? I suppose not. If ten inches of precip is the baseline, then most of Colorado, NM, Wyo, Utah, Ariz and Texas are in the desert even if they are about 7000 elev.

[MattieJensen]

Originally Posted by Deezus

Bend, Oregon is on the edge of the Cascades and the High Desert, so it's more of a mountain town for the the most part--especially in feel on it's west-side and starts to feel drier and more desertlike to the east or northeast or southeast of town.

I live in what is a true desert - the annual precip is less than eight inches a year (mostly in form of snow) at 9000 elev

[Deezus]

Someone is being sort of a desert snob...