The Worst Town In The Nation

3 December 2001 - 8:00am

Gene Weingarten searches for the 'Armpit of America."

"Take a small town, remove any trace of history, character, or charm. Allow nothing with any redeeming qualities within city limits -- this includes food, motel beds, service personnel. Then place this pathetic assemblage of ghastly buildings and nasty people on a freeway in the midst of a harsh, uninviting wilderness, far enough from the nearest city to be inconvenient, but not so far for it to develop a character of its own. You now have created Battle Mountain, Nevada."

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Source: The Washington Post, December 2, 2001