If you love to wander around old ghost towns, you’ll want to eventually find your way to Animas Forks, deep within the San Juan Mountain Range in southwestern Colorado. This boomtown went bust nearly a century ago, but plenty of relics from the good times remain, including numerous houses and ruins of the old mining operations. Best of all, it’s located in an impossibly beautiful high-altitude mountain landscape. When you arrive in Animas Forks, you’re greeted with some excellent old ruins of a town that withered away, a century ago. One old mining operation (the Columbus Mine) remains perched on […]