Weitchpec (/ˈwɛtʃpɛk/ WETCH-pek; Karuk: Ansáfriik;[4] Yurok: Wechpues, Wech)[5][6] is an unincorporated village and CDP within the Yurok reservation in Humboldt County, California, United States.
[7] It is located 35 miles (56 km) northeast of Eureka,[8] at an elevation of 361 feet (110 m).
[10] Weitchpec is an ancestral Yurok village that long predates European contact.
It was originally known as Weitspus, and was considered a major settlement of the Yurok people.
Temporary Euro-American names for the settlement in the 19th century were Durkee's Ferry and Weitchpec Bar.