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 $27.00 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.
 

UTE MOUNTAIN TRIBAL PARK SPECIAL WINTER TOUR
DECEMBER 20, 2008

On December 20, 2008, from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. the Ute Mountain Tribal Park will have a Special Winter Tour starting at he Tribal Park Visitor Center/Museum, located at Highway Junctions 160/491
(formally Highway Junctions 160/66), twenty miles south of
Cortez, Colorado, and eight miles south of the Ute Mountain Casino.

The following event is scheduled for December 20, 2008.
*The Ute Mountain Tribal Park tour of Anasazi Sun Calendars
(winter solstice sites) in Mancos Canyon will be conducted by
Virginia Wolf, Anthropologist/Archaeologist.  The tour will begin at
11:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. and the cost of this tour is $20.00 per person.

There will be free refreshments at the
Tribal Park Visitor Center/Museum.

Ute Mountain Tribal Park will provide vans free of transportation costs.  Each van holds up to fifteen people per vehicle.  Visitors may provide their own transportation.

The full and half day tours are not handicapped accessible

Note:  Ute Mountain Tribal Park Visitor Center does not accept credit cards.  Accepted are personal checks, cash and travelers check. 
For more information check web site www.utemountainute.com
or call 1-800-847-5485 or 970-565-3751, extension #330. 
Tours start at the Ute Mountain Tribal Park Visitor Center/Museum
at Highway Junction 160/491 (formally highway junction 160/666).

FULL DAY (Active)

     9:00 AM to 4:00 PM  $45/Per Person/ Per Day (20 or more people within a group $27.00 per Person)

HALF DAY (Easy)

9:00 AM to 12:30 PM $27 -
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.

TRANSPORTATION PROVIDED BY THE GUIDE: 

CAMPING IN THE TRIBAL PARK