The now abandoned village of Animas Forks in Colorado ... would leave the town almost uninhabited by the 1920s, and Animas Forks became another in a long line of American ghost towns.

Colorado's abandoned mining towns stand today as silent witnesses to a time of great ambition and bitter disappointment.

(Courtesy of Scott Peterson)| St. Elmo, located less than 83 miles southeast of Aspen, Colorado, is one of the state's best-preserved ghost towns. Formed in 1880 for miners in search of gold and ...