Montana campgrounds help

Columbia Falls RV Park, in Columbia Falls, MT.

Private campground just off I-90 on West end of Missoula that we like: Jim & Mary's Campground. Very clean and orderly. Laundry facility. All hookups. Nice people. Quiet place.

The cheapest city to buy a house is Butte, but there are reasons... (if God were to give Montana an enema, he'd do it in Butte)

Summers in all four areas are great. Spring and fall are nice... Bare in mind I've seen it snow in every month of the year though. Spring really doesn't come until about now and fall is in full swing by the day after Labor Day, with winter pounding in by Thanksgiving.

I just saw a story that the fastest growing town is St. George Utah, why I couldn't guess.

I really don't like the Salt Lake area, with the mountains to the east it can get real bad air pollution and the roads are ugly crowded (that from a guy that regularly drives in Seattle)

I lived in Havre for three years and finally ended up in Keller, TX. I'd say you need at least a month in the winter to get a feel for what winter conditions can be. I can't help with real estate questions, but feel free to PM me with winter survival questions and I'll try to help.

Were also considering parts of CO, WY and UT as well. Part of the deal is that we have to take a winter vacation for my wife to check it out. Been looking on realtor websites and prices can't be any crazier than here in North Texas.

One report I looked at was that the DFW area was #2 in new people moving in nationwide, 80K a year and it's not expected to slow down any time soon. My house has almost doubled in the 8 years that I have owned it.

The median house price in Bozeman is $300,000, Missoula $250,000, Helana $160,000 and Kalispell is $212,000

L&C State Park is about a day's drive to Kalispell. Not what I would call convenient.
About 3 hours to Missoula, 2 hours to Helena only an hour to Bozeman though.

Have you ever spent a winter, a real winter, someplace.

One of my ol college chums became a real estate agent in Bozeman and she loved selling a home to someone from Calf/Texas/etc because she figured about 80% of the time she would get to sell it again the next summer.

Of the places you list Kalispell would have the mildest winters, Bozeman the hardest (I've seen days there where the high was -40, also 3 ft of snow over night).

All four areas are "demand" areas, that is places where the housing demand exceeds the supply. I know both Bozeman and Missoula are having problems with housing that the students at MSU and UM can afford (actually Missoula is softer as their enrollment has gone down 25% in recent years, while Bozeman has gone up about the same amount)