The Driftless, mapped the way a land agent learns it.
These are the communities I work in every week, from the Mississippi River to the ridge roads of the Driftless, across Western Wisconsin and into Southeast Minnesota. Each page is field notes on what the place is, who it suits, and how the property there tends to behave on the market.
La Crosse
01La Crosse County, WI
The city at the river, ringed by bluffs
Read the notesOnalaska
02La Crosse County, WI
The Sunfish Capital of the World
Read the notesHolmen
03La Crosse County, WI
The village that keeps growing toward the bluffs
Read the notesWest Salem
04La Crosse County, WI
Small town on the I-90 corridor
Read the notesBangor
05La Crosse County, WI
The quiet village under the Dairy Ridge
Read the notesMindoro
06La Crosse County, WI
Unincorporated country at the edge of the hills
Read the notesTrempealeau
07Trempealeau County, WI
The mountain in the water
Read the notesGalesville
08Trempealeau County, WI
A bluff town with a walkable, up-and-coming main street
Read the notesSparta
09Monroe County, WI
The Cycling Capital of America
Read the notesViroqua
10Vernon County, WI
Heart of the Driftless and organic country
Read the notesWestby
11Vernon County, WI
The co-op town on the ridge
Read the notesCoon Valley
12Vernon County, WI
Where the valley floor farms give way to the coulees
Read the notesBlack River Falls
13Jackson County, WI
Rivers, woods and the falls that gave it the name
Read the notesLa Crescent
14Houston County, MN
The Apple Capital of Minnesota, across the river
Read the notesHouston
15Houston County, MN
Trout country in the southeast Minnesota bluffs
Read the notesThe best answer is a conversation.
County lines don't line up with what buyers actually want, and my territory doesn't either. If your place is a mile off any of these pins, it's still my country. Tell me where you are and what you're wondering about.
