Colorado History

Picture this: a quiet drive through Colorado, where each county sign marks not just a boundary, but a chapter in our state’s wild history.

Learn how in 2004, Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson teamed up with Bill Murray at the writer’s Colorado home to create what he called, “the first truly violent leisure sport.”

Colorado’s state motto is a Latin phrase with a meaning that has been speculated for many years.

From dinosaur bones to cowboy artifacts, the Western Slope is packed with local history just waiting to be explored.

Imagine carving out a life in the wilderness, surrounded by canyons and rivers. That was the story of Pat Lynch, a man who truly embraced the wild.

The Gold Camp Road Tunnels… where the echoes of the past mingle with strange stories that send shivers down the spine.

In the early 1900s, the town of Hastings, Colorado, was the setting for multiple tragedies.

Nestled in the Rockies, Dotsero Crater is a quiet reminder of Colorado's volcanic history, far from the flash of its more famous peaks.

In 1906, an extremely gruesome and bizarre crime was committed in Las Animas, Colorado, that resulted in two deaths.

Learn the fascinating history of Colorado’s Carter Lake, including multiple accounts of it being haunted.

A Colorado town with fewer than 300 residents is known as the highest incorporated municipality in the United States.

The video that started a worldwide phenomenon based in Colorado was, oddly, a hidden gem in a video game.