The first whites in the Crystal Valley traveled on the Ute Trail, as well documented by the Hayden surveys in 1873. Whites brought with them the wheel, and no sooner than the first homesteads were staked, petitions began flowing into the nascent Pitkin County clerk’s office requesting a wagon road.… read more →
Ute Trail
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May. 24, 2023
CVEPA Views: John Osgood, Pitkin County and the Battle at Red Wind Point
