Visit abandoned places in Colorado where mining once drove busy communities. See remaining structures, learn local history, and plan day trips in the Rockies.

Gilman, Colorado, stands as one of the most haunting reminders of the mining boom-and-bust cycle that defined much 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 ...

Skip the popular Colorado ski resorts of Vail and Aspen for the quiet, undisturbed slopes of an abandoned ski resort that offers pristine runs and no crowds.

Pick any state in the U.S., and you'll find a ghost town — the sometimes spooky, always evocative remnants of a place that once was. Ghost towns are often a result of a once-booming industry that fell ...

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