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Colorado keeps 22 dossiers on places still working — the legend rides alongside the day job. A hotel, a theater, a lighthouse can carry a haunting reputation and a full schedule at once; the filing records what is claimed about the ground, not what the staff will tell you at the desk. Check hours and seasons before you go — the record is not a timetable.

22 dossiers1 county covered100% open to visitorsThe Stanley Hotel — deepest file
Other Colorado shelves:historic sites8
Hotel
High confidence

The Stanley Hotel

Estes Park, Colorado

Historic hotel linked to horror literature.

3 claims · 2 legends→
Road
Medium

Phantom Canyon Road

Victor, Colorado

Former railway with phantom-inmate folklore.

2 claims · 2 legends→
Ufo Observation Site
Medium

UFO Watchtower

Hooper, Colorado

Observation platform north of Hooper tied to UFO accounts.

2 claims · 2 legends→
Ghost Town
Medium

Tincup

Tincup, Colorado

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

2 claims · 2 legends→
Town
Medium

Georgetown

Georgetown, Colorado

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

2 claims · 2 legends→
Theater
Medium

Tabor Opera House

Leadville, Colorado

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

2 claims · 1 legend→
Hotel
Medium

Brown Palace Hotel

Denver, Colorado

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

2 claims · 1 legend→
Hotel
Medium

Oxford Hotel

Denver, Colorado

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

2 claims · 1 legend→
Hotel
Medium

Hotel Boulderado

Boulder, Colorado

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

2 claims · 1 legend→
Hotel
Medium

Strater Hotel

Durango, Colorado

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

2 claims · 1 legend→
Hotel
Medium

Hotel Jerome

Aspen, Colorado

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

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Silver Cliff & Rosita cemetery lights

Silver Cliff, Colorado

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

2 claims · 1 legend→
Town
Medium

Central City

Central City, Colorado

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

2 claims · 1 legend→
Town
Medium

Cripple Creek

Cripple Creek, Colorado

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

2 claims · 1 legend→
Town
Medium

Leadville

Leadville, Colorado

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

2 claims · 1 legend→
Town
Medium

South Park City

Fairplay, Colorado

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

2 claims · 1 legend→
Hotel
Medium

Hotel de Paris

Georgetown, Colorado

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

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Ludlow

Ludlow, Colorado

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

2 claims · 1 legend→
Ghost Town
Medium

Animas Forks

Silverton, Colorado

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

1 claim · 1 legend→
Town
Medium

Victor

Victor, Colorado

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

1 claim · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Amache

Granada, Colorado

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

1 claim→
Historic Site
Medium

Edward T. Sheldon Burial Site at Evergreen Cemetery

Leadville, Colorado

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

2 facts→

Full Colorado record → state index· Every operating filing → status shelf

Record last amended October 2, 2026 · shelves recounted with the archive