Visit abandoned places in Colorado where mining once drove busy communities. See remaining structures, learn local history, ...

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 ...

The lore of this Colorado mining town named after a gold prospector is worthy of a Hollywood Western, and its remnants are preserved in an unexpected place.

What qualifies as a ghost town? It’s an abandoned settlement with many of its structures still standing, from churches to schools, saloons, banks, cottages, and cemeteries, as well as rusty industrial ...

Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Colorado siris_sil_62934 ...