76 places found

Animas Forks, Colorado
Animas Forks was established in 1875 at 11,200 feet in the San Juan Mountains, between present-day Silverton and Lake City, and grew…

Colorado Springs, Colorado
Staff and guests at the Antlers Hotel describe a man who lingers in the hotel bar after hours and a woman in a long gown seen descending a…

Ashcroft, Colorado
Ashcroft began in 1880 as a silver camp eleven miles up the Castle Creek valley from Aspen, and briefly rivaled its now-famous neighbor…

Fort Collins, Colorado
Franklin Avery, the surveyor who laid out Fort Collins's original street grid, built this house for his family in 1879. It was a private…

Mesa Verde, Colorado
Built between roughly 1190 and 1270 CE into a sandstone alcove 700 feet above Soda Canyon, Balcony House holds three plazas and 38 rooms —…

Rye, Colorado
In the late summer of 1779, New Mexico's Spanish governor, Juan Bautista de Anza, led roughly 600 soldiers south from Santa Fe, joined…

Ouray, Colorado
The Beaumont Hotel opened in Ouray on December 15, 1886, built for $75,000 by the Ouray Real Estate and Building Association. It has hosted…

Thornton, Colorado
Brittany Hill occupies a mansion built in the late 1800s and now operates as an event venue and restaurant. Local telling holds that the…

Colorado Springs, Colorado
The Broadmoor opened in 1918 and has hosted a century of presidents and celebrities on its Colorado Springs grounds. A long-told story of…

Evergreen, Colorado
The Brook Forest Inn, a mountain lodge in Evergreen, carries several unconnected ghost stories rather than one documented past. Staff…

Denver, Colorado
Henry Cordes Brown, who had made a fortune in Denver real estate, opened the Brown Palace Hotel in 1892 after four years of construction;…

Golden, Colorado
The Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave stands on Lookout Mountain above Golden, where William F. Cody is buried. Visitors have reported a woman…

Leadville, Colorado
Camp Hale was built in 1942 to train the Army's 10th Mountain Division in skiing and mountain warfare before they fought in Italy, and it…

Lake City, Colorado
Capitol City was developed in 1877 by George S. Lee, who platted a large townsite and built a brick "governor's mansion" in the hope the…

Nederland, Colorado
Caribou was a silver-mining town on a windswept ridge near the Continental Divide, founded after a rich silver strike in 1869 and abandoned…

Colorado Springs, Colorado
The Hearthstone Inn on Cascade Avenue occupies a Victorian house turned bed and breakfast. Staff describe a little girl seen running and…

Denver, Colorado
Visitors to Cheesman Park describe a heavier, more troubled feeling walking certain paths, and sunken depressions in the grass where old…

Colorado Springs, Colorado
Helen Hunt Jackson, the writer best known for Ramona, gave her name to these falls in Cheyenne Canyon after her death in 1885; her grave…

Manitou Springs, Colorado
The Cliff House, a historic hotel in Manitou Springs near Miramont Castle, is said locally to be haunted by a European couple whose story…

Mesa Verde, Colorado
Built between about 1200 and 1275 CE, Cliff Palace is the largest cliff dwelling at Mesa Verde — more than 150 rooms and 23 kivas, each…

Florissant, Colorado
This Florissant house was built in 1886 for James Costello, whose wife Catherine later died after her dress caught fire, and whose son lost…

Denver, Colorado
Thomas Croke, a Denver businessman, built this Richardsonian Romanesque mansion in 1891; two years later U.S. Senator and newspaper…

Marble, Colorado
Crystal is a small mining-camp ghost town high on the Crystal River, best known for the weathered Crystal Mill, a timber powerhouse perched…

Wiggins, Colorado
Dearfield was founded in 1910 by Oliver Toussaint Jackson as a Black agricultural colony and became Colorado's largest Black homesteading…