Ghosts may not be real, but ghost towns sure are. Ashcroft, a town about 10 miles south of Aspen, was settled in 1880 by silver prospectors. The town thundered into existence with a Miner's Protective ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Today, the Ashcroft ghost town is mostly silent, save for the crunching of snowshoes, the clip-clopping of horse hooves, the trickle of Castle Creek and the ...
Visit abandoned places in Colorado where mining once drove busy communities. See remaining structures, learn local history, ...
Kelsey and Rose are back on cross country skis for this episode of The Drop-In, this time exploring the trails around the Ashcroft Ghost Town up to the Pine Creek Cookhouse and back. We started by ...
Formerly known as Castle Forks City, Ashcroft was founded in 1880 by a group of silver-searching prospectors. They built a courthouse and laid streets in two weeks’ time, and by 1883, the town ...
For the first time in roughly 140 years, people could be behind bars at Ashcroft again in the near future if Aspen Historical Society achieves one of its priorities. The historical society wants to ...