ghost town

You'll find over 300 ghost towns peppered across Colorado's landscape. The majority of these mostly-vacant towns rest high in the Rockies where miners built settlements in hopes to strike it rich.

Built in 1892 and tucked away in the mountains of Colorado.

Dearfield was established by O.T. Jackson, a prominent Colorado African-American.

A new documentary film explores a different type of Colorado ghost town — our numerous once-thriving, now-forgotten (and totally eerie) ski resorts.

Dearfield is a pretty interesting place, and has a really important role in Colorado history, but if you haven't been able to visit in person, you can visit via drone.

Book a stay in a one-room cabin in St. Elmo – one of Colorado's most preserved ghost towns.

What's the story behind the ghost town's creepy cafe outside of Fort Collins?

Drive east along Highway 34, and you'll come across a rest area that looks like it's been abandoned for decades.

We've recently seen a town with no water, and even a town with possible THC water, but this Colorado town had deadly water -- and it's creepy as heck.

Why buy a fancy new house in Fort Collins when you can use that money to buy an entire ghost town in Colorado?

Hang on tight, we're about to take you up the Poudre in this week's episode of Northern Colorado Offensive History. Welcome to the ghost town of Poudre City!

In our quest to investigate more of the ghost towns that litter the Colorado landscape, today our travels take us to Weld County's ghost town, Dearfield.