Belmont, WI

united states

Belmont is a small Wisconsin city of under 1,000 people in Lafayette County, accessible via Highway 151 from Madison (50 miles) or Dubuque, Iowa (30 miles). The town sits in the scenic Driftless Area with rolling hills and farmland. It briefly served as Wisconsin's first territorial capital in 1836, when the entire government operated from a building locals dubbed "the shack."