Perched at 10,900 feet along Colorado's Independence Pass, the ruins of Independence Ghost Town sit quietly above the treeline, where the Roaring Fork Valley drops away, and the sky feels close enough ...

Some ghost towns slip away into the ether, and some become urban explorer hotspots, but only one -- Colorado's Dunton Hot Springs -- has been transformed into a seriously remote, two-key Michelin, ...

The story of Gilman, Colorado, reads like a horror movie. The setting: a small Rocky Mountain town in 1984. The characters: the residents of a centuries-old mining community. The plot: the soil is ...

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 ...

Winding over 2,400 miles from Illinois to California and linking disparate parts of the country with a thread of freedom, independence, and the promise of a better life, Route 66 is arguably the ...