Inside A Mining Ghost Town – Red Mountain Town – Idarado Colorado

Inside A Mining Ghost Town – Red Mountain Town – Idarado Colorado

Idarado and Red Mountain Town is are bit of an enigma and is a hard Ghost Town to identify. The final resting place of Red Mountain Town is equal distance between Oury and Silverton Colorado off of U.S. Highway 550. However; the Abandoned town was moved once and burnt twice. Meaning you can find a few versions of Red Mountain Town. The Denver Times described the town by saying “Red Mountain was the mecca for all who were allured into the San Juan by the fickle goddess of fortune.”

The original town was settled in 1879 when a group of silver deposits was found nearby. At that time it was a small mining camp and went by the name of Sky City. The camp was below the National Belle Mine; however, it would later be relocated. This is because the residents of Sky City first built their camp in wintertime when the ground was frozen solid. Once spring came around the townsite became swampy, fly-infested, and messy…

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Timestamps:
1:18 – Red Mountain Town History
5:23 – Strange Equipment Left Behind
7:41 – How it Became Abandoned
10:41 – How to say “Ouray”
11:52 – What the Clean Up Looks Like Today

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21 Comments

  1. Connie Miner on November 24, 2020 at 9:12 pm

    ❤️ the history of the places that you go to! Thank you for taking us with you!

  2. quantum hustler on November 24, 2020 at 9:15 pm

    Pretty Cool Stuff

  3. Urban Kiwiana on November 24, 2020 at 9:19 pm

    Hi Doug another incredible video..this one was definitely in worse shape then the last one I watched it looked like a old dentist room to me, it awesome you got to look inside some places this time.. that old wooden bridge at the end was amazing..👍see yah soon

  4. Rogue Exploration on November 24, 2020 at 9:22 pm

    Great find Doug there were some cool relics left there great story too awesome views as well

  5. Raymond Coggins on November 24, 2020 at 9:22 pm

    Beautiful country

  6. Exploring With Ajusta on November 24, 2020 at 9:24 pm

    Congrats on 11 thousand subscribers!!! That is an astonishing accomplishment my good brother and you deserve it lad!!! Was that you on the quad? Loved the old photos you dug up of this place mate plus the amazing facts and history you tell us all! Not sure if it was the hudson house but the first one you went into looked so unstable from the outside! (Just love how theres always that 1 creepy chair sitting by itself, but that one how it was warped was way trippy and cool) OMG lad that surgical table or whatever it is, was an epic find!! VERY creepy looking but such an extremely cool find mate! Im just as stumped though, i really couldn’t tell you what half that cool old school looking equipment was!! Pretty crazy though to know theres/or was 100’s of miles of tunnels!!! Thats insane! Very sad for that 7% of children with the lead poisoning!! Apology excepted with your mispronunciation HAHAHAAHAHAH straight up jokes brother, I really don’t mind, but i guess some do LOL

    Some really cool footage at the end too mate!!! I hate repeating myself but as always your videos are some of, if not my favourite abandoned vids to watch!!! Much love lad and hope you and the family are doing well!! I know colorado literally doesn’t have that much abandoned places (i think?) but you always seem to find something, so thanks always for showing us all and informing us of abandoned parts of your beautiful city of what use to be. Peace from ajusta!!

  7. RD S on November 24, 2020 at 9:30 pm

    Mark is right….It’s an autoclave…..a technology used today for everything from sterilizing dental tools to curing commercial aircraft fuselages (really….in Wichita KS). It a pressure chamber that quickly under various heat loads. Some of the largest ones are 30′ in diameter and 100 feet long !!

  8. permadi fauza on November 24, 2020 at 9:30 pm

    😊 exodus from yellowstone blast 💥
    😆 or chernobil of colorado 😷

  9. Offbeat Discoveries on November 24, 2020 at 9:31 pm

    The leaning chair looked as if it was trying to offset the slant of the structure.
    We saw the same type of light chargers (at 6:07) when we explored the Bon Ami mine.
    Another well presented documentary of this mining town! Awesome job Doug!

  10. Utility Productions LLC on November 24, 2020 at 9:37 pm

    Thanks for this video and all that you do!

  11. David Mulhorn on November 24, 2020 at 9:38 pm

    That is a sterilizer and exam or surgical table.

  12. Mountain Mettling on November 24, 2020 at 9:42 pm

    Love all of your videos and the history within!!!

  13. mark jeffels on November 24, 2020 at 9:43 pm

    5:54 is a commercial Autoclave. The table would have been used by the mine/area doctor for everything. 6:09 This is battery chargers for the miners for underground lamps excetra! I grew up in a mining town in Northern Ontario!

  14. Maeve Robertson on November 24, 2020 at 9:49 pm

    5:52 is a sterilizer for needles, syringes etc. Before they had disposables. 6:55 also appears to be a sterilizer; maybe to clean glass Petrie dishes (used to test antibiotics on germs.) Again this was before they had plastic disposables.

  15. Norman Mallory on November 24, 2020 at 9:56 pm

    This is a great video of history .. Well done on the camera work.. I knew there were a large number of mines in CO but most of what you visited i did know about .. Very interesting .. Gawd what a hard life in the winter months ..

  16. Cathy Bobalek on November 24, 2020 at 9:56 pm

    AGAIN KNOW THE AREA WELL.WHEN I WITH OTHERS WERE THERE. WE HAD PEOPLE.LIVING THERE,I SAW AUTOCAIVE..ALOT OF PLACES ARE GONE. MIND YOU SPEAKING 47 48 YEARS AGO.I USE TO LIVE IN A MI NEING TOWN.IN COLORADO. THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES.

  17. Oldenweery on November 24, 2020 at 9:58 pm

    The instant I read "Red Mountain…" I clicked! One of my favorite books of my "Paper Time Machine" is "Narrow Gauge in the Rockies," by Lucius Beebe ("Bee-bee") and Charles Clegg. There’s a wonderful photo of Red Mountain at the bottom of Page 111, taken from high up, showing the mine buildings and the Silverton Railroad of Otto Mears, "Pathfinder of the San Juan" running along the base of a sort of sugar-loaf mountain in the back. One of the pretty little 2-8-0 Consolidation type locos the locals sometimes called "Sewing Machines" because of their valve rockers and stems flailing away behind their cylinders. Your videos have given me the urge to spend some time revisiting the book—with a cold drink by my side. I’m working my way through your excellent videos!

  18. Graham Gould on November 24, 2020 at 10:01 pm

    You should do a video on Gilman, CO. Definitely one of the more spectacular ghost towns in the state

  19. aking032962 on November 24, 2020 at 10:03 pm

    Medical equipment looks like an iron lung something that they may have used for people that are suffering from the elevation sickness.

  20. Potwheelz on November 24, 2020 at 10:03 pm

    10:13 i thought you’re buddy in the House was a Ghost!

  21. Rebecca Montano on November 24, 2020 at 10:03 pm

    I live in that general area, have for 28 years…this is neat to watch:)

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