Hidden in Rural America!! You Won’t Believe What’s Left of These Colorado Desert Towns

Hidden in Rural America!! You Won’t Believe What’s Left of These Colorado Desert Towns #worldside #colorado #ghosttowns #abandonedplaces #forgottenplaces #traveldocumentary

Colorado is famous for the Rocky Mountains and the thrill of outdoor adventure—skiing, hiking, rafting, and endless alpine views. But beyond the pine forests and postcard peaks is a quieter Colorado: ghost towns and forgotten places where life once burned bright, then slowly faded. This travel documentary takes you through 15 small towns in Colorado built on mining, railroads, and frontier ambition—communities that rose fast, worked hard, and then dimmed into silence.

We begin with Gilman, a mining town perched on a cliff that was forced to empty after toxic contamination in the 1980s—leaving behind buildings that still cling to the canyon like a suspended memory. In St. Elmo, the past feels unusually intact: wooden storefronts, an old hotel, and a seasonal post office that still opens as if history never fully closed its doors. In places like Ashcroft and Teller City, the boom-and-bust pattern becomes painfully clear—silver promised everything, then winter and empty mines took it back. And in Crystal, the legendary Crystal Mill stands above rushing water like a perfect photograph—beautiful, remote, and difficult to reach without serious effort.

But not every town faded from economics alone. Ludlow carries one of the most tragic chapters in American labor history, a place where trauma froze the land itself. In the high country, Alta, Animas Forks, and Hancock show what it meant to build a town at extreme elevation—where nature, fire, and avalanche could erase years of life in a single season. Meanwhile, towns like Trinidad, Rangely, Julesburg, and Eads reveal a different kind of decline: places that never fully disappeared, but live on with a quieter pulse, shaped by changing industries and a shrinking future.

If you’re drawn to Colorado history, ghost towns, forgotten places, and the haunting beauty of abandoned America, this journey is for you.
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00:00 – Colorado Beyond the Peaks
01:06 – Gilman
02:16 – St. Elmo
03:24 – Trinidad
04:24 – Ashcroft
05:33 – Rangely
06:34 – Crystal
07:44 – Kit Carson
08:54 – Alta
10:16 – Ludlow
11:23 – Teller City
12:17 – Creede
13:20 – Animas Forks
15:05 – Hancock
16:08 – Julesburg
17:04 – Eads
17:58 – Remembering What’s Left
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