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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In 1858, prospectors struck gold on Cherry Creek, and in an instant a generation of Americans and fortune seekers from abroad was bound for what would become ...

Filled with history and spooky sounds, abandoned towns tug at our desire for intrigue. Former mining camps, mysterious narratives of failure and the touch of what was still on the doorknob. The ...

The Loveland Museum is unveiling its next exhibit, “Images of Colorado’s Ghost Towns,” at 10 a.m. Saturday in the Foote Gallery at 503 N. Lincoln Ave. The exhibit will feature a variety of photographs ...

Colorado is now known for its incredible skiing, and Denver, its capital city, is also considered America's craft beer capital. But long before the ski resorts and the breweries, Colorado was a hotbed ...

When Jerry Craghead stepped on a mine grate called a grizzly, in a tunnel in the Eagle Mine at Gilman, Colorado, the grizzly gave way and Craghead nearly plunged down ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SUMMIT COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) — They’re called ...

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 ...