Ute Council Tree - Delta, Colorado

Address:Delta, Colorado

Pay tribute to the Colorado Rockies' tree with the highest stature. The Ute Council Tree, in Delta, is an official Colorado Landmark and was included in the book "Famous and Historic Trees of the United States." It is the official meeting site at which Ute Chief Ouray and his wife Chipeta made a peace agreement with the area's white settlers. Not only is the tree's reputation big, the bicentennial cottonwood itself (having first sprouted in 1805) is 85 feet tall and seven feet in diameter.