Clark Fork River Market on trouvé

Clark Fork River Market is the Saturday one. Downtown, by the river, rain or shine, which in Missoula is not a slogan so much as a weather report. The reward is five dollars of vendor credit. Every reward we reserved in September was redeemed, which is the kind of sentence I do not get to write often and will not dress up.

Best time is Saturday before eleven, in market season. After that the good produce is thinner and so is the patience of the people who got there at eight. You claim the credit, you spend it with a vendor, and you are in the middle of the market instead of adjacent to it. That is the point.

I keep this drop on the list because it is the closest we get to putting the whole town in one place. Producers, neighbors, dogs, the river. A five-dollar credit is not a fortune. It is a reason to show up before the morning is gone, and in September every person who reserved one did. If you only do one Saturday walk with the app, do this one, and do it early.