The Ghost Town Club of Colorado holds ten regular meetings each year, featuring speakers presenting programs on a variety of topics related to ghost towns, mining camps and their allied subjects and history. Meetings are in-person, and also streamed live virtually.
Past meeting topics have included: “How to Find a Ghost Town”, “The Adventure, Danger and Romance of Colorado’s Railroads”, “Denver’s Great Mansions and the People Who Inhabited Them”, “Bonanza Victorian: The Architecture of Colorado Ghost Towns”, and “The Mining Camps Speak: A New Way to Explore the Ghost Towns of the American West”.
Meetings occur on the second Thursday of each month.
2025 MEETINGS
January 9 – Boarding Houses Around Colorado
presented by GTC member Ashley Doty
February 13 – Amache: Granada War
presented by the Amache Preservation Society
March 13 – Ghost Town Jeopardy
hosted by GTC member Bill Lettow
April 26 – Ghost Town Club Annual Banquet
location: Georgetown, CO
program: “Colorado Towns that Have Vanished” by renowned author Kenneth Jessen
May 8 – Scanning Shadows: An Intro to Drones & Their Role in Preservation
presented by GTC Preservation Chair Jason Messing
June 12 – Outhouses of Colorado
presented by GTC President Josh Robinson
July 19 – Ghost Town Club Annual Picnic
location: Fort Lupton, CO
August 14 – Mining in the Upper Swan River and the Great Flume
presented by renowned author and historian Bill Fountain
September 11 – From the Archives
presented by GTC Archivist and Historian Merrill Emmett
October – Boom Town Victorian! The Architecture of Colorado Ghost Towns
presented by GTC President Josh Robinson
November 13 – A Visit to a Soviet Ghost Town in the Far North
presented by GTC member Bill Lettow
December 11 – Colorado’s Favorite Ghost Towns
presented by GTC member Ron Ruhoff
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Header Image Credit: “The Cliff Dwellings Speak” by GTC member Jason Messing