The Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad takes travelers on a winding, adventurous path through beautiful Colorado ...

Discover some of Colorado’s local gold mining towns. I dive in deep to explore the reason why ... which had the most incredible old history and historic buildings. There you could see remnants of the ...

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 ...

Few of the early settlements of what became Chaffee County remain as towns, but their place in history lives on. The ...

it actually refers to an old, abandoned city. America's western states are full of these towns; many were founded during the mining boom in the late 1800s to serve as home bases for miners.