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

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 ...

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 ...

Several miles past Keystone Resort, where Peru Creek cuts through the Colorado Rocky Mountains near the Continental Divide, about 30 dispersed campsites line a dirt road full of potholes. “People ...

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 ...