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The location of the State of Colorado in the United States. This is a list of some notable ghost towns in the U.S. State of Colorado. A ghost town is a former community that now has no year-round residents or less than 1% of its peak population. Colorado has over 1,500 ghost towns, although visible remains of only about 640 still exist.
B. Badito, Colorado; Bakerville, Colorado; Baldwin, Colorado; Balzac, Morgan County, Colorado; Belden, Colorado; Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site; Berwind, Colorado
Crystal (also known as Crystal City) is a ghost town on the upper Crystal River in Gunnison County, Colorado, United States. It is located in the Elk Mountains along a four-wheel-drive road 6 miles (9.7 km) east of Marble and 20 miles (32 km) northwest of Crested Butte. Crystal was a mining camp established in 1881 and after several decades of ...
Gilman is an abandoned mining town in southeastern Eagle County, Colorado, United States.The Gilman post office operated from November 3, 1886, until April 22, 1986. [3] The U.S. Post Office at Minturn (ZIP Code 81645) now serves Gilman postal addresses.
The principal activities were farming and cheesemaking. The Colfax, Colorado, post office operated from May 2, 1870, until January 16, 1879, when the post office was moved four miles north to Blumenau. [2] The communal effort failed after a frost and the settlers left the town. However, many of the settlers remained in the area as ranchers and ...
Near Aspen, Colorado, the mining town of Ashcroft had 2,000 residents and 20 saloons in 1883 but was abandoned 5 years later. Here's a look at it now. Near Aspen, Colorado, the mining town of ...
Alpine is a small community, sometimes considered a ghost town, in Chaffee County, Colorado, United States. [1] It was founded as a mining town. The Alpine post office operated from October 26, 1874, until June 30, 1904. [2]
Kokomo is a silver- and gold-mining ghost town in Summit County, in the U.S. state of Colorado. [3] Before being depopulated in the 1960s, Kokomo was at its height home to over 10,000 people. [ 4 ]