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 ...

This hidden ghost town located in Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado is so beautiful, you'll want to plan your visit ...

Colorado is full of ghost towns -- abandoned for all sorts of reasons. For our series Colorado Wonders, a listener asks about some that are worth a visit. So we called an expert: Kenneth Jessen has ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Muriel Sibell-Wolle traded the East Coast for the foothills of Boulder in 1926, she was immediately spellbound by the region’s rich natural beauty, declaring she planned to stay "until they kick ...