Animas Forks, one of the mining centers in the San Juan Mountains that was born out of gold fever and died when the fever ran its course, is glittering again today. A celebration will honor both the ...

Thursday, Jul 23, 2015 5:42 AM Updated Thursday, Jul. 23, 2015 12:44 PM An iconic, ridge-lover’s fantasy, The Catwalk is an 0.4-mile-long knife ridge located north of the Cinnamon Pass Road, east of ...

Colorado has the best small mountain towns for a fun road trip, especially fascinating ghost towns like Animas Forks. Dilapidated wooden buildings along its hills give off an eerie vibe as soon as you ...

A dilapidated mining cabin in Animas Forks, one of several ghost towns seen along Colorado's Alpine Loop —Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in ...

SAN JUAN COUNTY, Colo. — There's a ghost town high in the San Juan Mountains where people were literally living buried in snow. In fact, during an 1884 blizzard that lasted 23 days, 25 feet of snow ...

A new guide to the prettiest campgrounds in America highlights a pair of gems in Colorado. The list from the online travel guide Matador Network names Silver Bell and Animas Forks among the 60 ...

Mountains with elevations over 13,000 feet surrounded us: Snowdon Peak, West Needles Mountain, Molas Pass, and Kendall Mountain were names Darlene and I had heard when we rode the Durango & Silverton ...

Once Silverton got rail service, other short branch lines were constructed radiating from the town. This included the Silverton Railroad, which ran over Red Mountain Pass following today’s U.S. 550.