Ghost Town Directory

Colorado ghost towns

Towns
9
Counties
7
With photographs
4

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  1. 01AliceClear Creek County3 min readIn 1988, the Alice Mine in Clear Creek County, Colorado, was completely filled in, erasing a gold shaft that once ran ore at 40 to 50 ounces per ton in 1894.
  2. 02AlpineChaffee County3 min readAlpine, Colorado, a Chalk Creek ghost town, emptied when the Mary Murphy Mine closed in 1910, then found new life as a summer cabin community decades later.
  3. 03AltaSan Miguel County3 min readIn 1891, Alta, Colorado, a mining camp at 11,800 feet, received alternating current from the Ames plant, an early commercial use of Nikola Tesla's AC system.
  4. 04AltmanTeller County3 min readAltman, Colorado was a ghost town on Bull Hill where miners walked off the job in 1894 and won, after the governor sent the National Guard to protect them.
  5. 05AmesSan Miguel County3 min readIn 1891, a small plant at Ames, Colorado sent AC power three miles to the Gold King Mine, proving Tesla's technology worked and challenging Edison's DC.
  6. 06Animas ForksSan Juan County3 min readIn 1884, a 23-day blizzard buried Animas Forks, Colorado, under 25 feet of snow, and residents tunneled between buildings to reach one another at 11,200 feet.
  7. 07AshcroftPitkin County6 min readAshcroft, Colorado, a silver camp founded near Aspen in 1880, boomed on Horace Tabor's money and emptied within a decade. Several of its buildings still stand.
  8. 08GilmanEagle County4 min readGilman, Colorado is a cliffside mining town the EPA ordered evacuated in 1984. Its company houses and Eagle Mine remain sealed on Battle Mountain today.
  9. 09Independence6 min readIndependence, Colorado was an 1879 gold camp near Independence Pass whose last residents fled to Aspen in 1899 on homemade skis built from their own houses.