Outdoor Life’s Top Towns for Hunters and Anglers

This list should just be called: Where Hunters and Anglers Should Retire To: Go West Old Man. 

Our friends at Outdoor Life pulled together a lot of factors to rank the 200 best towns for outdoorsmen and women. They get their rankings by looking at everything from huntable and fishable species, population density, gun friendliness, and 10 other categories.

Of their top 20, only one is east of the Mississippi (barely), and six of them are in Wyoming. Here's their top 20, for all 200, head over to OutdoorLife.com:

1. Bend, Ore.  
2. Pinedale, Wyo.  
3. Rapid City, S.D.  
4. Kodiak, Alaska.  
5. Saratoga, Wyo.  
6. Cooper Landing, Alaska  
7. Lewiston, Idaho  
8. Pendleton, Ore.  
9. Sheridan, Wyo.  
10. Bismark, N.D.  
11. Mountain Home, Ark.  
12. Chamberlain, S.D.  
13. Pierre, S.D.  
14. Rawlins, Wyo.  
15. Lander, Wyo.  
16. Cody, Wyo.  
17. Williston, N.D.  
18. Heber Springs, Ark.  
19. Marquette, Mich.  
20. Loa, Utah  

What did they miss?

–Brian McClintock