👻Top 10 Colorado Ghost Towns. A few are still standing.
👻Top 10 Colorado Ghost Towns. A few are still standing.
Top 10 Colorado Ghost Towns. A few are still standing.
Welcome back to the channel, I hope you like ghost towns just as much as I do. This list is about Colorado ghost towns. While doing the research I learned they have so many ghost towns I could probably make 3 Colorado ghost town videos.
Not all the pictures in this video are 100% accurate. I guess when a town hasn’t been around for 100 years, it’s hard to find pictures. If you visit any of these make sure you have good car insurance, the roads suck.
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Yesterday I was at the Ghost Town site of Garland City. Along US Highway 160 east of Fort Garland, Colorado. Nothing there now. But I did find something of interest along a section of the old US Highway 160. A concrete pillar with writing on it, "RED AID PROJ." I googled it and the closest I found was, Red Aid refers to a Communist Health Care system from 1922 to 1941.
Do a Utah ghost towns video please!
St Elmo beautiful, there main attraction for visitors is the chipmunks you can hand feed them as run across the boardwalk at general store! I was a Colorado resident back in 2009-16 love your video’s !
I live about a 30 minute drive from St.Elmo. I drove up this fall and took amazing pictures of the Aspen trees. Buena Vista is a beautiful town, I spent my summers here growing up and now live in my Great Grandmothers house. I would highly suggest visiting in the summers, rafting, horseback riding, hiking, and live music. Buena Vista is still considered a ghost town itself as our main street mainly consists of buildings build from the 1880s to early 1900s that are still standing with a rich history and gorgeous views.
I was sure Crystal would have been 1 or 2 with St. Elmo.
How did BONANZA Colorado not make your list? It lasted longer than Teller City and that was number 2 on your list
I know, I used a broad-brush, it’s a 12 minute video, get over it. Look up my hometown local ghosttown of Oatman AZ! Except now its a real town because of residents running old west tourism.
What? No Animas Forks?
I love Colorado and live in it
I am from Colorado and I know that there are some scary graveyards there
Saint Elmo’s my favorite place to go, the chipmunks there are very tame and will eat out of your hand.
I liked your video. I’m a Colorado Native. I am the worse kind of native — I am the geek that knows the history. I know that you warned about not going to far into the history but some history is to easily forgotten.
First of all the lower part of Colorado wasn’t obtained with the Louisiana Purchase. It was acquired with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo when the United States purchased the south west portion of the now United States from Mexico for $500 million dollars and protection from the current inhabitants (the Apache and Comanche Indians). Signed Feburary 2 1848, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo brought the "Miner ’49’ers" into California. It wasn’t until 1858 that the gold around Ralston Creek was remembered by the Leavenworth Party. A second party (The Fall Leaf Party) was then formed and came back to the area to prospect.
The second part that I would like to bring attention to was when you were talking about Russell Gulch. There were actually two Russell brothers. They are more famous for rescuing a woman from being sold into slavery. There were two families from back east that bought a woman by the name of Mary York (of Catholic Irish decent) from her family so that she could be their maid on the migration west. Once around the Central City area, Mary overheard the two families talking about how they were going to sell her into slavery (white slavery — prostitution) once they got to California. Mary escaped and ran to the arms of the Russell brothers. They defended her and chased off the evil travelers. Mary stayed with and cared for the Russell brothers until she met and married Sheriff Billy Cozens. This of course opens up even more stories that I wont go into.
Your video was great. I just have a hard time when so much important and great history is glazed over. It isn’t your fault. There is so much fun history and you had such little time.
Thanks for your effort and success.
I wish I knew the name of the city me and my grandma went to. It was 3 days before Christmas, we were getting home from Louisiana after a funeral and we just crossed the border from Kansas into Colorado and right away we got hit with a huge blizzard. There was so much snow we could barely see infront of us, the wind was so powerful we saw semi trucks and cars pushed on their sides or flipped in the ditches almost every half a mile. We felt the wind really start to push my grandmas Isuzu Trooper, we did not want to be in the ditch like everyone else so my grandma turned on the nearest road and in 5 mins we saw the resemblance of a white building and decided to park next to it, Lock the car and sleep in the back of the trooper and wait out this hectic storm. I remember how freezing it was and how hard the trooper was getting pushed. It felt like we had people pushing on the left side of my grandmas trooper every damn minute. We luckily came prepared with pillows and blankets and were able to sleep off the rest of the night. That next morning, it was so cold I didn’t even want to get up to let the cold air hit me. But when I did finally get up the entire left side of my grandmas car was covered in snow while I had a nice clear view of the white wall on the right and the back window showed a long field of untouched snow with tall Colorado Blue Spruces and a few pine trees missing a few inches from how much snow was on the ground. I had to (wiz) and put on my shoes and opened the back door with a blanket on and not noticing how deep the snow is from the surrounding area, I hopped into the snow and found myself stuck in snow past my knees! Now I’m extra cold and just really want to get this over with, so I see a corner and decide to go over there. I turn the corner and there’s 4 old rectangular gas pumps with wooden like plating on them, and in the distance a few more white buildings and some old houses. No cars, no people, with snow completely untouched. The gas station building had a big cracked window and there was nothing inside of it but counters, and all the houses and buildings had holes, cracked windows, caved in roofs, broken doors, hell some didn’t even have doors and I swear every building was white from being sun bleached or completely chipped of paint showing the wood. I felt strange looking at it, wondering what happened but at the same time thinking why people would live in such a small town? The whole town was probably a street or two. My grandma saw the town and commented on the same thing but also said “it has its own kind of beauty if you see it as it is right now”. And she was right, the untouched snow across the entire town made it seem so entrancing, yes broken abandoned buildings seem scary but it’s strangely beautiful seeing a town stuck in time, being untouched by man or even by animal at the time, nature taking over man made objects and not destroying it but changing it. The trees were obviously planted by someone and they were as tall as the ones in the national park, almost a little forest was growing in this small town and the addition of these trees with the snow made the town look like it was suppose to be in this moment, looking exactly like this, an image of a different time but being affected by change and nature, yet somehow being preserved just enough to peak your interest about the entirety of the town and the area surrounding it. We didn’t stay long to check out the town because we really needed to get going to make it home for Christmas but it’s definitely one of my favorite memories on one of my favorite trips with my grandma. Never seen an abandoned town until that day and I’m really glad I was able to have that experience and feel those emotions even to this day.
I find it interesting that there’s a building the free masons meet at in Russel Gulch (Nevadaville) 👀 I’ve lived in Gilpin county and used to drive through Russel Gulch all the time and even knew a few people who’ve lived out there
I live in colorado
Plz do NV ghost towns
O.k. I am thinking about this seriously I need a new home.
Why you decide To pick here.
Super cool video there is some beautiful country out there
Ironton is most certainly not in a “flat” area. It’s right next to Telluride…
Growing up in Colorado it never occurred to me that these were ghost towns. All the olds buildings just seemed natural to me
Idaho has a lot of ghost towns, too. Amazing….mostly mining towns in all these western states.
Lol….dude…..you keep making me spit my coffee out, laughing so hard…lol. Cut it out! Wait….don’t! You are awesome!
I live here
Briggs have you ever been to a ghost town because most of ghost towns are on private land and the owners get really mad if you trespass! I mean meet and greet with a shotgun so If you want to visit a ghost town please get permission first!
You should check out Pitkin, CO. Close to Gunnison.
Winfield Colorado should be in there too!!!!What a hard life back in the day, the little cemetary there says it all!!
If you want to check out a Colorado ghost town, you should check out my bedroom!
Aspen was a silver town, dude….lol
Thank you!
I like independence the best, if u live in Colorado I highly recommend you go there
I watch a lot of your videos…great job man…🙋♂️ from 🇷🇸…
I just moved to Ordway, CO. You could add this town to your list in about 10 years.
Pueblo 😩😂😂
THANK YOU BUT DOES ANYONE KNOWNS WHERE IS THE BEST AREA TO GROW MARIJUANA ?? N.E.W.? MAYBE NOT SOUTH ??
I just moved to Colorado. Ready for some adventures
I’ve been to Leadville CO, which is not a ghost town. You can even eat lunch there.
Man, John Parr predicted what would happen 17 years before it happened.
I am that history nerd 🤓 you speak of. But, I’ll spare you the colon exam. Great video and best wishes!
What have I been doing here for 17 years?
You mentioned there was cheap land near Russell gulch, the paternity test determined that was a lie.
Its about 30k per acre.
Where did you get your information? Oregon is listed as having the most ghost towns
7:42 I think it still open not gone yet. So you wrong, you get news form it today.
You missed the best one. Animas Forks. It’s the best ghost town in Colorado with many buildings still standing and gorgeous mountain scenery.
The damage caused to red mountain does not seem to be worth $30 mil
How would you go about or who would you contact to rent out a place for a weekend in Vicksburg
In indonesia ghost afraid to covid19 if 2000 homeless move and get home that’s better for 5-10 year bank pay it’s good deal
Saint Elmo general store is a gift shop that’s how it’s still open
Hmm, Colorado ghost town, it could work if running water available.
Spot on with your list. Nice aerial of Estes Park in the intro and end!
The 20 seconds of footage starting at 4:01 illustrate why the Coloradans call this "Aspen Glow"—or did when I was there in the fall of 1970. If nothing else, Colorado is wealthy in scenery!