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Top 3: Ghost Town Hikes

Walk 100 or more years back into history--and deep into wilderness outposts now reclaimed by nature--with these routes to three abandoned frontier communities.

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| Boston Mine, CO |

| Glorieta Ghost Town, NM |

| Dogtown, MA|

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