Windy Ridge: Quartzite Quarry Research in the Colorado High Country

Presented by Chris Johnston
Operations Director, Senior Project Archaeologist, Paleocultural Research Group

Indigenous people began using Windy Ridge during the Folsom period and continued mining this high-quality orthoquartzite for the next 11,000 years. The quarry, sitting at roughly 9,300 feet asl about 25 miles southeast of Steamboat Springs, spans nearly 1.5 hectares and contains nearly 200 quarry pits. (more)