Alta Ghost Town
Telluride, San Miguel County, Colorado. Ghost town.
Details
- Where
- Telluride, San Miguel County, CO. No street address stated. Directions
- Getting there
- Continue on Alta Lakes Road past the ghost town to Alta Lakes.
The center of mining activity in the Alta-Gold King area from 1877 to the late 1940s, Alta is situated about 10 miles from Telluride. Now listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the site includes several original buildings, including cabins, a boarding house and outhouse buildings — all of which look spectacular amid the idyllic high-alpine backdrop.