MESA COUNTY, COLORADO—The remains of hundreds of wickiups, conical-shaped dwellings built by the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe of southwestern Colorado, have been documented by the Forest Service and the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Colorado’s oldest continuing residents, the Utes, arrived centuries before the Arapaho and Cheyenne came in the early 1800s or the Spanish in the 1700s. The ...

Project aims to record historic Ute structures in Southwest Colorado For years, archaeologists have been documenting hundreds of wooden shelters left by Native Americans in northern Colorado, in a ...

Ancient teepee-like wooden structures made from small tree trunks and branches are prevalent throughout western Colorado’s central and northern regions. Constructed from pinon-juniper, or at higher ...

Wickiups were human shelters made from juniper, pinyon, aspen or other tree branches, which were covered with leaves, branches, dirt and sometimes hides. They could be free-standing or constructed to ...

A pair of “wickiups,” modeled after Native American shelters, are seen at the Whitney Mesa Recreation Area. According to the city of Henderson, the goal of the project is to maintain the beauty of the ...