This chipmunk lives in rocky areas of the western United States. It favors places with juniper and pinyon pine and has reddish dorsal stripes.
Its coat is a buff-and-gray mix, with black back stripes highlighted in orange-red and pale and reddish stripes on the face.
It prefers rocky ground with juniper and pinyon pine. In western Colorado, sage patches and juniper-pine patches are reported as two microhabitats.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.