Saint Elmo, Colorado

Colorado's easiest high-country ghost town, and a good one with children. St Elmo lines a single street in Chalk Creek Canyon, 19 miles up County Road 162 from Nathrop, southwest of Buena Vista, and is one of the best-preserved ghost towns in the West, with its weathered wooden storefronts still in a row. The road is fine for a two-wheel-drive car in summer. The general store opens seasonally, roughly May to September, and sells seed for the tame chipmunks, which are half the reason families come. A few people still live in town, so treat the buildings as private and look from the street.