I liked 16 back when I was playing the course, but even then I asked management a couple times what the long-term plan was for keeping the trees from encroaching too much on the hole. The idea then was to prune as needed. I haven't been back since 2008, so I don't know how much growth there has been or if it has been managed.
I recall seeing three or four ways to play the hole, two of which would tend to be pretty much exclusively for the better player. The best play is just to take an accurate club and hit it down the left side. It's not a long hole, so you can pick whatever club you feel confident of not pulling into the creek. Anything in the left half of the fairway allowed a clear shot to the green. Even shots toward the middle or mid-right of the fairway had some shot at the green if played with a cut. Obviously not all can control it, but certainly that's the shot shape most amateurs have. As I recall there was enough space to aim somewhat left of the green and still be OK--a bunker, or plenty more room left and long.
I saw some guys, when not playing from the tips, actually try to bang driver up there as far as they could, basically right into the tree. I wasn't long enough to try that in those days. If you could really get in under the trees, you were close enough where you had a reasonable chance at a little bump and run shot into the green.
The play I favored was just to lay well back off the tee. I wanted to leave 150-160 in, whatever club that meant from the tee I was playing. I would try to play down the left side, but I could hit short irons very high (when you grow up in Denver, there's no reason not to hit your irons that way), and from that distance even if I hit the drive too far right, I found I could play over the trees.
Of course, if the trees have grown up or out and reduced those options and corridors, that's too bad, because the penalty left is pretty severe. But at that time I always enjoyed it as a sneaky hard hole. Only 330 from the blue tees and yet the play was still to lay way back with your tee shot. Then again, some guys could try to smash it toward the green. I always liked that hole. 2 and 7 worked for me, as well.