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Dunton, Colorado was a small-unincorporated settlement in Dolores County, located about 12 miles northwest of Rico by road. The town was established in 1885, and it consisted of log structures stretching for about a mile along the West Dolores River. Early-day Dunton was a mining camp, and the mines were located about half a mile down the stream from the community. The most successful mines were the Emma, the Smuggler and the American. As with many other mining camps, Dunton suffered from isolat...
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Dunton, CO 81323, USA
The road narrows as it climbs into the San Juan Mountains, winding past meadows thick with wildflowers and stands of old-growth aspen until it dead-ends at something unexpected: a ghost town, brought carefully back to life. Dunton Hot Springs occupies a former mining settlement in a high alpine valley at nearly 9,000 feet, its hand-hewn log cabins restored with the kind of devotion that honors what the mountains left behind. There is no lobby. No check-in desk. What greets you instead is a villa...
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