My son and I had the good fortune to stumble across some interesting Colorado ghost towns on a cool fall day in September.

The early settlers in Dog Canyon named this field "Indian Meadows" after finding the meadow to be the well-used campsite of Mescalero Apache.

Our pioneering ancestors paid a heavy price settling the wild Texas frontier.

The Rio Grande National Forest in southern Colorado contains spectacular scenery! Grab a copy of the Colorado Atlas and Gazetteer (published by DeLorme) and prepare for travel on dirt roads deep into the mountain wilderness far away from the maddening crowds.