West — open filings

Open to visit in Colorado

31 dossiers in Colorado carry the open to the public filing — the legend is on record and the door, per the last source, is open. Access is a filing, not a guarantee: hours, tickets and seasonality live with the venue. Everything else in the archive stays documented but admired from the legal distance.

31 open dossiers1 county coveredThe Stanley Hotel — deepest file

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High confidence

The Stanley Hotel

Estes Park, Colorado

Historic hotel linked to horror literature.

3 claims · 2 legends→

Phantom Canyon Road

Victor, Colorado

Former railway with phantom-inmate folklore.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Ufo Observation Site

UFO Watchtower

Hooper, Colorado

Observation platform north of Hooper tied to UFO accounts.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Tincup

Tincup, Colorado

The town that killed its marshals—three in a row.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Georgetown

Georgetown, Colorado

The "Silver Queen of the Rockies"—where the hamlets’ ghosts reportedly stay.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Tabor Opera House

Leadville, Colorado

Horace Tabor’s silver opera house—at 10,000 feet, the town’s grandest room.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Brown Palace Hotel

Denver, Colorado

Denver’s 1892 atrium palace—the railroad man and the murderous love triangle.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Oxford Hotel

Denver, Colorado

Denver’s oldest hotel—the post office murder and the basement bar.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Hotel Boulderado

Boulder, Colorado

Boulder’s 1909 landmark—the staircase suicide and the figure on the stairs.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Strater Hotel

Durango, Colorado

Durango’s Victorian hotel—Louis L’Amour’s room and a daughter’s ghost.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Hotel Jerome

Aspen, Colorado

Aspen’s silver-boom hotel—Katie the maid and the miner in the basement.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Silver Cliff & Rosita cemetery lights

Silver Cliff, Colorado

The cemetery "dancing lights" of the Wet Mountain Valley.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Central City

Central City, Colorado

The "Richest Square Mile on Earth"—where the opera house still plays.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Cripple Creek

Cripple Creek, Colorado

The last great Colorado gold camp—where the dead reportedly stay.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Leadville

Leadville, Colorado

The 10,152-foot silver city—where the Unsinkable Molly Brown lived.

2 claims · 1 legend→

South Park City

Fairplay, Colorado

The restored 1860s mining town—moved building by building.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Hotel de Paris

Georgetown, Colorado

The 1875 French hotel—the mining camp’s luxury.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Ludlow

Ludlow, Colorado

April 20, 1914—the tent colony the Guard burned.

2 claims · 1 legend→

High confidence

St. Elmo

St. Elmo, Colorado

Historic settlement and ghost-town heritage.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Animas Forks

Silverton, Colorado

The 11,000-foot mining camp—the Walsh house still stands.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Historic House Museum

Molly Brown House

Denver, Colorado

Unsinkable Molly Brown’s Denver mansion with a cigar-smoke presence.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Slide-Rock Bolter country

Lake City, Colorado

The fearsome critter that slides down mountains to swallow tourists.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility

Cañon City, Colorado

The 1871 territorial prison—still active beside the museum.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Fort Garland

Fort Garland, Colorado

Kit Carson’s 1858 command—the adobe fort in the San Luis Valley.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Bent’s Old Fort

La Junta, Colorado

The 1833 adobe trading castle on the Santa Fe Trail—rebuilt on its own ruins.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Victor

Victor, Colorado

The "City of Mines"—half ghost town, half living camp.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Great Sand Dunes — Dunefield

Mosca, Colorado

Dune field associated with rare humming and booming.

Amache

Granada, Colorado

The plains camp—7,000 on the dry land.

Edward T. Sheldon Burial Site at Evergreen Cemetery

Leadville, Colorado

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

Massacre Memorial

Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site

Memorial landscape near Eads honoring Cheyenne and Arapaho victims.

Incarceration Site

Amache National Historic Site

Granada, Colorado

Former wartime camp west of Granada.

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Record last amended October 2, 2026