Drive eleven miles up Castle Creek Valley, away from the buzz of Aspen, and you will find yourself in the presence of ...

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 ...

About 11 miles south of Aspen, Colorado, is the ghost town of Ashcroft. Ashcroft once had hotels, saloons, and 2,000 residents. But 5 years after being built, it was deserted. I toured Ashcroft's ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DENVER (KDVR) — Colorado has a rich history ...

In 1858, prospectors struck gold on Cherry Creek, and in an instant a generation of Americans and fortune seekers from abroad was bound for what would become Colorado. It worked out OK for Denver, ...

Filled with history and spooky sounds, abandoned towns tug at our desire for intrigue. Former mining camps, mysterious narratives of failure and the touch of what was still on the doorknob. The ...

Loveland author Kenneth Jessen wrote about the facts, figures and statistics of Colorado’s ghost towns, but he wanted to tell his own stories of his visits to hundreds of these towns. IRIS, CO: Sept.

Formerly known as Castle Forks City, Ashcroft was founded in 1880 by a group of silver-searching prospectors. They built a courthouse and laid streets in two weeks’ time, and by 1883, the town ...

But the doors are shuttered, the windows are mostly boarded up, and there is no sign of the gangs of carousing miners that would descend on the town from surrounding valleys on weekends, pay in hand, ...

Journey into the mountains of Colorado to explore Gilman, the deserted mining town once powered by the Eagle Mine. Discover ...

The Loveland Museum is unveiling its next exhibit, “Images of Colorado’s Ghost Towns,” at 10 a.m. Saturday in the Foote Gallery at 503 N. Lincoln Ave. The exhibit will feature a variety of photographs ...

From New Zealand to Colorado, I've explored more than a dozen ghost towns. Along the way, I've encountered my fair share of eerie and spooky spottings. A cross in the doorway sent shivers down my back ...