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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...