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2013 Tour Information and Costs
Come
experience a trip back into time and witness a special Native American
interpretation of the culturally diverse homelands of the Ute Mountain Ute
Tribe. Spend time in our incomparable Ute Mountain Tribal Park with
one of our knowledgeable Native American Ute tour guides. Guides
interpret Ute* Indian History, Ute pictographs, geological land
formations, and Ancestral Pueblo* petro glyphs, artifacts and dwellings.
The half-day tours will visit Ancestral Pueblo
petro glyphs, scenic lands, Ute pictographs panels, geological land
formations and surface sites. All sites on the half-day tour are
within a short walking distance of the gravel road.
The full-day trips require additional time and
effort, including a three-mile walk on unpaved trails and a climb on
five ladders to visit four well-preserved canyon cliff dwellings in
Lion Canyon
A round trip drive on gravel and dirt roads from
the Tribal Park Visitor's Center is 80 miles for the full day tour and 40
miles for the half-day tour. Check in time is 8:30 a.m. and
departure is a 9:00 a.m. Tours begin at the Visitor Center/Museum- 20
miles south of Cortez, Colorado at Highway Junction 160/491.
Thank You for your interest in the
Ute Mountain Ute Tribe.
Special Prices are available to school groups
only:
From 1st to 8th
grade is $10.00 per student, grades 9th - 12th are $16.00 per student,
and college students are $29.00 per student.
Rates for children within a family are:
Eight and under are $8.00 each
and children ages 9-15 years of age
are $13.00 each.
No
senior rates apply. A half-deposit is required for weekend groups
and special tours. Deposits are only refunded with one week's
notice.
Military Discount: Active Members of the military will be given a 50% discount with proof of military identification.
ESSENTIAL TOUR
INFORMATION
Water or food is not available
in the Park, but water and soft drinks are available for purchase at the
Tribal Park Visitor Center/Museum. Bring plenty of drinking water,
lunch for the all day trip, insect repellant, sun screen, a hat and
sturdy hiking shoes. Have a full tank of gasoline. NO DOGS
ARE ALLOWED. PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY IS NOT ALLOWED!
Please inform the tour guide of serious health problems. Visitors should have their own insurance. The
meeting point for tours is at the Tribal Park Visitor Center at the
Junction of highways 160/491, 20 miles south of Cortez. The Ute
mountain Tribal Park may cancel out tours due to weather. Credit
cards, National Park Service's GOLD EAGLE PASSPORTS and other passes are
not valid here.
YOU MUST HAVE A UTE
GUIDE TO ENTER THE UTE MOUNTAIN UTE TRIBAL LAND. WE DO NOT ALLOW
SELF-GUIDED TOURS.
The Ute Mountain Tribal Park has the
right to close off tour areas for cultural or preservation reasons at
anytime. Ute Mountain Ute Tribe/Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Park and
its employess are not liable for illnesses, accidents, theft, and
injuries.
*The Ute Mountain
Utes are the Weeminuche band of Utes, one of the seven original Ute
bands that inhabited the entire state of Colorado. The Ute
Mountain Utes presently reside on their reservation in Southwestern
Colorado.
*Ancestral Pueblo, or Anasazi, were people of the Pueblo culture.
These Pueblo people resided in the four corners' areas (Colorado, New
Mexico, Utah and Arizona) until about 1300 AD. The Puebloan tribes
are presently living in the states of Arizona and New Mexico and are the
descendants of the Ancestral Pueblo.
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