Blog https://www.durango.org/blog/ Blog Fri, 03 May 2024 11:33:01 +0000 Mysteries in History - Understanding Southwestern Ghost Stories https://www.durango.org/blog/post/mysteries-in-history-understanding-southwestern-ghost-stories/ https://www.durango.org/blog/post/mysteries-in-history-understanding-southwestern-ghost-stories/#comments https://www.durango.org/blog/post/mysteries-in-history-understanding-southwestern-ghost-stories/ Sun, 21 Oct 2018 18:00:00 -0600

Newcomers to Durango often face the same dilemma: we share a deep fascination with our town’s history but with little information to go on. We devour books, visit museums, take pictures of historical buildings and scan every plaque and sign downtown in hopes of new information to be learned. But

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Celebrate October by Visiting the Most Haunted Places in Durango https://www.durango.org/blog/post/celebrate-october-by-visiting-the-most-haunted-places-in-durango/ https://www.durango.org/blog/post/celebrate-october-by-visiting-the-most-haunted-places-in-durango/#comments https://www.durango.org/blog/post/celebrate-october-by-visiting-the-most-haunted-places-in-durango/ Mon, 17 Sep 2018 18:00:00 -0600

Whether you’re a believer or not, Durango may be the most haunted town in all of Colorado.

Founded by the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad in the 1880s, Durango was built on the mining boom. If these mountains could talk, they’d share the spooky and strange stories of the Wild West - lone rangers

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