Prehistoric Campsite
Vail Pass Camp is a large and well-studied high-elevation prehistoric camp. Located near the present-day Vail Pass rest area about 220 yards west of Interstate 70, the site preserves more than seventy archaeological features representing at least nine separate periods of occupation. Archaeologists have uncovered forty-eight fire hearths, a stone circle and a stone semicircle, fragments of two pots, several bone concentrations, and dozens of projectile points, end scrapers, and knives.
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