Recommended Ghost towns around Colorado Springs

[DWBOX2000]

Heading to CS in August. Anyone recommend a good ghost town around CS that the walk is under a mile. We are heading south from there to Taos so any in between suggestions would be helpful too. Thanks.

[manbridge 74]

Go see Bishop Castle the worlds longest one man project. Not to far off I25 and minimal walking...

[cassisrot]

Glorieta Pass was a civil war battle. The Colorado contingent was commanded by Col Chivington, better known for the Sand Creek massacre. Not far from Taos.

[cassisrot]

I've done better visiting Indian war battlefields. There isn't much left of ghost towns. A Duck search will point the way to what's left in the Springs. Driving Pikes Peak is always fun.

[KFC911]

Still ingrained in my memory from 4 decades ago....leaving CS, following an old AAA map (where they laid out the route)....a "highway" to Cripple Creek....or not . One of the most scenic, neck stretching (looking up) trips I'd ever had...I was used to the Smokey Hills....couldn't call them old ranges mountains any longer .

[mjohnson]

Originally Posted by KC911

Still ingrained in my memory from 4 decades ago....leaving CS, following an old AAA map (where they laid out the route)....a "highway" to Cripple Creek....or not . One of the most scenic, neck stretching (looking up) trips I'd ever had...I was used to the Smokey Hills....couldn't call them old ranges mountains any longer .

Yes, Canyon City to Cripple Creek is a nice drive, some unpaved but doable in a rental car. Not really a ghost town however.

With the current real estate market - I'm not sure there are any ghost towns in the front range of CO anymore.

[ckcarr]

There are no more ghost towns in Colorado or Utah.

They've all been picked over by people in the last 40-50 years or longer. People that have stolen everything.

Or, some city council idiot decides to "renovate" the town as a tourist attraction.. So they rebuilt it all, with nice new wood...

You could possibly get way up in the mountains and find an abandoned mine site, but even that's changed..

[slow&rusty]

Agree with ckcarr..there are no more ghost towns around COS, with the massive amounts of people who moved into the area in the last decade, it has turned into a booming metropolis with commercialism at its finest.

[Sooner or later]

Not near the Springs but Capital City still stands. 8 or 9 miles up Engineer Pass outside Lake City.

Alpine Loop is a great 4x4 trip.

[Sooner or later]

Animas Forks is up the same road

[DWBOX2000]

Thanks everyone for the responses. I look into them.