Explore Colorado ghost towns with creaky cabins, mountain silence, and eerie history that makes every detour feel worth it.

Fall is a popular time to visit these sites, offering a chance to also see the season's changing aspen leaves. Many former mining towns like St. Elmo, Animas Forks and Ashcroft have preserved ...

From ghost towns to gold mines to century-old saloons, the Wild West era is alive and well in the mountains of Colorado. Follow this road trip to see the same sights as cowboys, outlaws and famed ...

High in the Rocky Mountains at an elevation of over 9,000 feet, Nevadaville, Colorado, is a chilling reminder of the state's gold rush glory. The town of Nevada, as it was known at first, was formed ...

In Colorado, some of the least-populated towns have attractions that are anything but quaint like record-setting hot springs, unruly whitewater rapids, and mountain biking trails that skirt cliff ...

Colorado is no stranger to abandoned mining towns. Nevadaville comes to mind, a purportedly haunted gold rush town that sprang to life in 1859, as does St. Elmo, an extremely well-preserved ghost town ...

A U.S. Geological Survey employee with nothing better to do on vacation than pore over old maps in the Library of Congress made an astonishing discovery last year: a Colorado map from 1894 that ...