Skip crowded destinations in Colorado ... Few people continued to live in the town after the mining industry shut down. Although considered a ghost town, Saint Elmo is still inhabited.

Colorado's abandoned mining towns stand today as silent witnesses to a time of great ambition and bitter disappointment. These ghost towns, relics of the Gold Rush era, continue to haunt the ...

(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 ...