Editor’s note: This story originally ran in The Denver Post. With abandoned mines, dusty streets and ramshackle buildings, Colorado’s ghost towns have a knack for giving visitors goosebumps. Colorado ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Explore Colorado's cleanest city by hiking or biking around McIntosh Lake, admiring public art downtown, and sipping craft ...