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Ute Mountain Tribal Park


P.O. Box 109

Towaoc, Colorado 81334

970-565-3751 x.330
1-800-847-5485

 

Visitors Center & Museum

1-970-749-1452

 


E-mail
utepark@fone.net


Fax#
970-564-5317

 

 

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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 $28.00 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.

 

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.  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.  Current military members are half the tour fee rate with proof of military identification.

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.

*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.
 

FULL DAY (Active)

     9:00 AM to 4:00 PM  $47 Per Person/ Per Day (20 or more people within a group $28.00 per Person)

HALF DAY (Easy)

9:00 AM to 12:30 PM

$28.00 Per Person/Per Day
(1:00 p.m. half day tours can be arranged with prior notice.)

SPECIAL TOURS TO REMOTE SECTIONS OF THE PARK

     $60 per Person/Per Day
(Minimum of four people, 5.6 miles of hiking and climbing on original Ancestral Pueblo trails.

Private Tours
$100/person

TRANSPORTATION PROVIDED BY THE GUIDE: 

     $10.00 Extra per Person
(Prior reservations required)

CAMPING IN THE TRIBAL PARK

  Primitive Campground
$12/Per Vehicle/Per Day
(Prior Reservations required)

Cabin Rental: $10.00 Per Day
(Located at the Tribal Park Primitive Campground)
(Reservations required)


Nordenskiold Cliff Dwelling Tour   -   July 24,2010

Inaccessible, Casa Colorado & Casa Blanca House   -  August 7, 2010

The Ute Mountain Tribal Park is offering to the public Nordenskiold cliff dwelling tour and Inaccessible, Casa Colorado & Casa Blanca House, rarely visited areas of the park.  The tour is scheduled to start at the entrance of Mesa Verde National Park (MVNP) at 8:30 A.M. to 5:00 P.M.
The tour involves a drive thru Mesa Verde National Park and across to the Ute Mountain Reservation.  Visitors will be guided into Pool Canyon and vist four Nordenskiold cliff dwellings on July 24, 2010.  Visitors will be guided into Inaccessible, Casa Colorado & Casa Blanca House on August 7, 2010.
The hiking time from the parking area to visit the dwellings is approximately four hours hiking and three miles round trip.  Visitors mus be physically active for this tour and must provide backpack, drinking water, lunch and wear comfortable gear.

$60.00 Per Person / 20 people maximum
$12.00 for Transportation Provided by UMTP

The tour fees are $60.00 per person and transportation is $12.00 per person.  A half deposit is required.  A tour packet will be provided prior to the visit.  The tour will start from the Ute Mountain Pottery plant (20 miles south of Cortez, Colorado) at 7:45 A.M., the Cortez Chamber at 8:15 A.M., and MVNP entrance at 8:30 A.M.  The tour will be conducted depending upon weather.  Reservations must be set at the Ute Mountain Tribal Park by e-mail at utepark@fone.nt or 970-565-9653.  The tour must be paid in full on the day of the tour.  Ute Mountain Tribal Park does not accept credit cards.  Accepted are: cash, traveler's checks, money orders, and personnel checks from the State of Colorado.

 


TENTH ANNUAL UTE MOUNTAIN TRIBAL PARK OPEN HOUSE
MAY 29, 2010

 

On May 29, 2010, from 8:30AM to 4:30PM, the Ute Mountain Tribal Park will have an Open House starting at the Tribal Park Visitor Center/Museum at Highway Junction 160/491 (formally Highway Junction 160/666), twenty miles South of Cortez, Colorado and eight miles South of Ute Mountain Casino.

 

The following events are scheduled for May 29, 2010

*Porcupine House Ruin and Ute Pictographs Tour*
These tours begin at 9:15AM to 3:00PM.  The cost of this tour is $28.00 per person.

*Anasazi Sun Calendars in Mancos Canyon and Anasazi Petro glyph tour*
The half day tour begins at 9:00AM to 12:00PM. & 1:30PM to 4:30PM. 
The cost of this tour is $28.00 per person.

*Mini Pow-wow / Native American Dance Group 8:15 A.M. to 9:00 A.M.
 (Free of charge)

There will be no charge for transportation.  Each Tribal vehicle van holds up to fifteen people per vehicle.  Transportation is based on a first come first serve basis.  Visitors may provide their own transportation.

Tours  are NOT handicapped accessible.

*On display at the Tribal Park Visitor Center will be museum exhibits from 8:30am to 3:00pm.
*Free refreshments will be available for visitors.
*Participants will need to dress comfortably and provide their own drinking water and lunch for the tours.

**Note:  Ute Mountain Tribal Park Visitor Center does not accept credit cards.  Accepted are personal checks, cash and travelers checks.  For more information, check our web site at www.utemountainute.com or call 1-800-847-5485 or 970-565-9751, extension #330.  Tours may be cancelled due to bad weather.  Tours begin at the Ute Mountain Tribal Park Visitor Center/Museum located at Highway Junction 160/491 (formally Highway Junction 160/666).
 

     

YOU MUST HAVE A UTE TRIBAL MEMBER GUIDE TO ENTER THE
UTE MOUNTAIN UTE TRIBAL LANDS.
WE DO NOT ALLOW SELF-GUIDED TOURS.

 

   The Ute Mountain Tribal Park has the right to close off remote section sites for cultural or preservation reasons.

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