Once bustling with the chatter of miners and the clinking of pickaxes, Colorado's abandoned mining towns stand today as silent witnesses to a time of great ambition and bitter disappointment.

This small Colorado town lets you feel like you've stepped back to a time when miners searched for silver and spent their earnings in Main Street's saloons.

While some became ghost towns, others still stand today, offering a glimpse into the past. From historic saloons to Victorian ...

To get a taste for the city's rich history as a Colorado Gold Rush mining town, stop at the Western Museum of Mining & Industry. Here, you'll learn what it took to make the most of the area's ...

Is Tim Walz as engaged at the Capitol as past governors? Republicans say he rarely meets with them. Rust-colored piles of mine waste and sun-bleached wooden derricks loom above the historic ...

As the owner Cross and Caribou mines outside Nederland seeks to resume mining, the town of Nederland and nearby residents ...

U.S. Rep. Jeff Hurd wants the federal government to lift recently imposed restrictions on oil and gas production and the ...

This beautiful town, which was established during the Colorado mining boom in the late 1800s, is surrounded by the jagged peaks of the San Juan Mountains. The site of Butch Cassidy's first bank ...