Ashcroft Ghost Town

Loads of old mining towns dot the Colorado mountains, miniature paeans to human greed and ecological destruction done in charming clapboard and shingle. Ashcroft went bust around the turn of the century after the silver veins in the mine gave out. The Aspen Historical Society took the place under its wing in the 1970s and it is still open as a nice little reconstruction today.
The mountain pass eventually ends up in Crested Butte, but even in June there was too much snow to make the crossing.