CABIN RENTAL: @ $15.00 PER DAY (Located at the Tribal Park primitive campground)
Camping in the TRIBAL PARK @ $20.00 PER-VEHICLE/PER DAY-PRIMITIVE CAMPGROUND (A permit must be obtained prior to camping. Camp fire wood, outdoor rest rooms, drinking & utility water available at the campground.)
Q: Where is the Tribal Park Campground located?
A: The campground is located about 15 miles in the Ute Mountain Tribal Park boundary.
Q: Is there running water at the campground?
A: No, the campground is a primitive campground. There is no running water or electricity but we do have water tanks for drinking and washing. There is also firewood with designated fire pits
Q: How do I set a reservation to camp?
A: Please call our office our e-mail us. We will need a vehicle description and license plate number as well as a number of tour participants camping. We will then issue you a camping permit and map to the primitive campground.
Q: Are there designated camp sites?
A: No, you may camp anywhere in the campground area.
Q: Can you describe the campgrounds?
A: The campground is located along the Mancos River and is surrounded by trees. There are a couple of picnic areas and designated fire pits thru out the campground area as well as cabins and outhouse structures. There area few short trails to the Mancos River but please stay around the campground area when camping.
Q: I see there are cabins in the campground, what is included inside the cabin?
A: The cabins are completely empty. You will need to provide your own accommodations (sleeping cot, sleeping bag, etc.).
Q: Does the park have Bathroom Facilitys?
A: YES ..Ute Mountain Tribal Park Visitor Center has rest rooms with running water. These rest rooms are locked during non- working hours. Tour participants can use these rest rooms free. Non- tour participants please pay fifty cents or can pay a larger amount for the use of these rest rooms in the Visitor Center before using the rest rooms. The money collections for the rest rooms are circulated back to purchase toilet paper and other cleaning products to keep these rest rooms clean.
Tour participants can use an outdoor rest rooms with non-running water at 17 miles east inside Mancos Canyon at Kiva Point. This outdoor rest room has toilet paper regularly cleaned and toilet paper stocked.
The next rest room facilities are located at South Lion Canyon and North Lion Canyon Trailhead are non - running water out door rest rooms and are cleaned and stocked with toilet paper.
All rest rooms with non-running water or outdoor type are cleaned and stocked with toilet paper.
It is our duty as Native Americans to preserve and protect our historical land sites so we ask of you, PLEASE DO NOT REMOVE pottery shards or deface prehistoric or any historical elements while on tour(s).
TRANSPORTATION PROVIDED BY THE TRIBAL PARK: $14.00 PER PERSON (Round trip from Tribal Park Visitor Center)
Prior reservations required Tour Participants 3 to 13 transported from Cortez, Co. @ $20.00 per person round trip.
Come experience a trip back into time and learn 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* petroglyphs, artifacts, and dwellings.
Each Tribal Park van holds up to twelve to fifteen people. Visitors can provide their own transportation.Participants will need to dress comfortably and provide their own drinking water and lunch for the tours.
Reservations must be set at Ute Mountain Tribal Park Office by e-mail at utepark@fone.net or umtp@utemountain.org or contact us by phone (970) 565-3751 ext. 330 or (970) 565-9653.
Tours may be canceled due to bad weather. Tours begin at the Ute Mountain Tribal Park Visitor Center/Museum located at Highway Junction 160/491 (formerly Highway Junction 160/666).
Ute Mountain Ute Tribe/ Ute Mountain Tribal Park and its employees are not liable for illnesses, accidents, thefts, and injuries.
Essential Tour Information
YOU MUST HAVE A UTE GUIDE TO ENTER THE UTE MOUNTAIN UTE TRIBAL LAND. WE "DO NOT" ALLOW SELF-GUIDED TOURS.
No dogs are allowed. No professional photography is allowed
It is our duty as Native Americans to preserve and protect our historical land sites so, PLEASE DO NOT REMOVE pottery shards or deface prehistoric or any historical elements while on tour(s).
*It must be noted that the Ute Mountain reservation is sovereign nation, and we ask you respectfully to accept our ways of life and our cultural believes.
Ute Mountain Tribal Park Visitor Center has rest rooms with running water.All rest rooms with non-running water or outdoor type are cleaned and stocked with toilet paper.
No tours conducted on Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays, major holidays and Tribal Holidays (Bear Dance
Half Day 9am-12pm
Full Day 9am-4pm
Special Tours
Tour Area Driving Distance
Transportation reservations
Camping Cost
Cabin Rental
Private Tours
Tour reservations can be set by calling 970-565-9653 or by e-mail: utepark@fone.net
Come and join us?
The Ute Mountain Tribal Park is offering to the public Pool Canyon Nordenskiold Cliff Dwelling tour, a rarely visited area of the park. The Tours are scheduled to start at the entrance of Mesa Verde National Park and across to the Ute Mountain Reservation.
We will not conduct the Pool Canyon tour this 2024. Due to trail conditions. Sorry for the Inconvenience.
Want to visit a rare area of the park?
Then this is the tour for you! Inaccessible Casa Colorado & Casa Blanca Cliff Dwelling Tour at the entrance of Mesa Verde National Park from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm.
The tour involves a drive thru Mesa Verde National Park and across to the Ute Mountain Reservation.
The hiking time from the parking area to visit the cliff dwellings are approximately five hours hiking and two miles round trip.
Visitors must be physically active for the tour and must provide their own back pack, drinking water, lunch, and wear comfortable gear.
Tours are not handicapped accessible.
Do you like a physical challenge?
This is the tour for all you adventures and hikers alike. This tour involves a climb of four ladders and a four and a half mile hike to Morris 3 Cliff Dwelling.
This tour takes approximately 7 - 8 hours. Starting location is at the Ute Mountain Tribal Park Visitor Center/Museum.
- This tour area is not handicapped accessible
- Arrive 15-30 min before tour starts
- Must bring lunch, water, and comfortable hiking gear.
- Reservations required.
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