Colorado Ghost Town Books/Maps
Idaho Springs Colorado Townsite - Ghost town
Well maybe not a Ghost town as it does have some really good Buffalo Burgers downtown. Skip the Big Macs out by the freeway. It is pretty hard for a town to die if it sits along side of I-70 on the way to the ski slopes.
These pictures were taken in January of 2005.
This was taken inside the Phoenix Gold Mine. Yes that is a vein of gold ore.
A viewer writes August 2009 - My family lived in Idaho Springs many different times, but the most memorable time, was the mobile home we had across the street from the post office. The owner of the lot was selling it and therefore we had to move along with three or four other families with mobile homes on the lot. A few days before the truck was to come pick up our mobile home it rained and rained. There was so much rain that our mobile home (which was the last one to be moved), slowly sank into the mud. There are pictures somewhere in my parents stuff, of the mobile home almost on it side, the front is buried in the mud with the back sticking up. I think it even made the papers, but then I was only 11 at the time, so I don't remember for sure. I remember the lady that owned the lot, lost the sell, because there was a panic that a shaft was underneath the lot and our mobile home was sinking into the shaft. This was a big deal, because as long as I could remember the public pool was closed for this very reason. Something about water kept leaking out of the pool and it took them a few years to figure out that it was sitting on top of a mine shaft. We lived there in 1980's to early 90's. There was no shaft under our mobile home and eventually the lady sold the lot. The public pool was re-built on the other end of town. Shortly after we moved away from Idaho Springs, they built a day care center on the site of the old public pool. Guess they figured that since they weren't loosing millions of gallons of water down the shaft that they danger was gone. Go figure.
Thanks for the site, I really enjoyed looking at all the pictures and relearning some of the gold rush history. It's been forever since I've been back up to the mountains to explore. I will have to make the time and take my kids up.
A viewer writes - Thursday July 22nd 2010 - My family has lived in Idaho Springs for generations. Your pictures show the the town perfectly. I'd love to see more of them.
A viewer writes - Sunday, October 17, 2010 - Mike trying to find old friends Dave and Dawn Skinner from Idaho Springs perhaps you could post this on the Idaho Springs page thanks also there was a great old spot Two Brothers Mine in Virginia Canyon about halfway between Idaho Springs and Russell Gulch anybody out there with photos of that ? ...thanks as always for keeping this alive Les
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