Category:Pine River (Manitoba)

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lat/long: 51.7667/-100.5333

Located approximately half way between Swan River, and Dauphin on Provincial Highway #10, this town today has a reduced population of around 150. In the 1950's Pine River had it's own hospital and several hotels. Farm service centers, auto-sales, hardware stores, theatre, food stores etc.

Like many small towns across North America, it has been shrinking. However this does not match it's potential.

Situated at the bottom of Duck Mountain Provincial Park and the Duck Mountain Forest Reserve, just to the west, Pine River not only offers unique scenery, but makes a great retirement opportunity. It offers hunting lodges with their own websites and one American family has even built a loghome just east of town. Find this town on Google Earth and follow the road west into the parks.

Don't think a tiny town can look cosmopolitan?

Drive up from Dauphin on the #20 highway instead and head west on 371 just after dark. The lights of the town can be seen for miles and it looks like you are never going to get there. But one would think it is bigger than it is. The view is worth it.

This little town has many historic buildings and makes for great movie sets.

Other features include a retirement home and community center.

If one comes from the south and takes the main entrance off of #10 one discovers that the town is actually about 50 feet lower than the highway. It is located in this low spot because the railway once was located here.

Original Log Cabins is an employer.

http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?country=CA&address=&city=Pine+River&state=MB&zipcode=R0L1M0

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