Colorado's abandoned mining towns stand today as silent witnesses to a time of great ambition and bitter disappointment. These ghost towns, relics of the Gold Rush era, continue to haunt the ...

After the California Gold Rush, gold was found in the rivers and streams of Colorado from a technique called Placer mining. Mines were popping up all over the state. The film focuses on local mining ...

The Buena Vista newspaper bragged in 1888 that the Mary Murphy Mine’s vein ‘extends clean through the globe to the Celestial ...

Venture to an abandoned ghost town high in the mountains near Aspen, Colorado, which used to be a boomtown during the gold rush in the 1880s.

The San Juan Skyway links four mountain ranges and five historic mining towns in one 233-mile loop. Between Durango and ...

America's western states are full of these towns; many were founded during the mining boom in ... southeast of Aspen, Colorado, is one of the state's best-preserved ghost towns.

While most of Nevada’s in-tact ghost towns are concentrated in the central and northern portions of the state, the remnants ...

Aspen began as a rough-and-tumble mining town. Then it tried to be a ghost town and barely failed in that. Almost without ...

Leadville – home to about 2,600 people and the National Mining Museum -- bills itself as America's highest city at 10,119 feet (3,0084 meters) above sea level. That distinction helped the city ...

But Matador calls the ghost town “one of the most unique places to camp in Colorado ... their tents anywhere near the remains of the old mining town. Closer to the site gives views of ...