Nevadaville and Central City

Time to hit another ghost town before winter starts here on the front range in Colorado. The places that we really want to check out are no longer accessible since the passes have closed until Memorial Day. We have already plotted our adventures for summer so you will just have to check back then.

Nevadaville and Central City are close by. Okay, Nevadaville is not technically a ghost town but most likely photo gold.

Pack the cameras, 4x4 necessities (axe, shovel, 3 gallon water jug) a few power bars and coffee and on the road we go.

On the way to Nevadaville, we noticed a worn out sign reading, Coeur d' Alene Mine. Looked free to me so we made the right turn down a dirt road and stopped at the abandoned mine:

After taking a few (okay, a lot) of shots we got back in the jeep and headed to Nevadaville.

Damn, blink and you basically miss it. Just a few buildings. I believe that there are on two full time residents that run the local trading post:

Nice stop...just a few shots then back on the road.

They say the best things to see are the ones that you didn't plan to see. We passed a cool cemetery and HAD to stop. Dead people are great for photos. They don't move. Sure, you can't see them , but that's not point here.

The sky was so grey that the pictures just didn't look right in color. B&W photos just have a great appeal when photographing ghost towns, cemeteries and old town casinos (which you are about to see).

Since we still had some daylight left, we headed over to Central City (Blackhawk) to shoot the old town. 20 degrees outside so we shouldn't have a lot of tourists in the way of our lenses.

Once again, another good day...

Until next time!

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