Native American Sites

Anasazi Heritage Center
The Anasazi Heritage Center is a museum for the study and interpretation of prehistoric cultures in the Four Corners region. The museum features permanent displays on the Ancestral Pueblo people and on the techniques that allow modern archaeologists to reveal the past. Many of our exhibits are hands-on and interactive- you can weave on a loom, grind corn meal on a metate, examine tiny traces of the past through microscopes, and handle real artifacts. Changing Special Exhibits & Events feature topics of regional history and Native American cultures.
The Center houses almost two million artifacts, samples and documents.

Located 69 miles from Telluride on Hwy. 145 near Dolores and Cortez.
Call 1-970-882-4811

Canyons of the Ancients National Monument in southwestern Colorado contains a huge number of archaeological sites (more than 6000 recorded, up to 100 per square mile in some places) representing the Ancestral Puebloan and other Native American cultures, as well as important historic and environmental resources.
From about 200 to 1300 AD, this 164,000 acres of federal land was home to the Anasazi. There are limited facilities in the monument. Stop at the Anasazi Heritage Center for maps and guides before venturing in to this area.

Call 1-303-239-3600

This Anasazi settlement, abandoned around 1300 A.D., is located just across the Utah border near Cortez, with a campground and picnic area. Hovenweep National Monument protects six prehistoric, Puebloan-era villages spread over a twenty-mile expanse of mesa tops and canyons along the Utah-Colorado border. Multi-storied towers perched on canyon rims and balanced on boulders lead visitors to marvel at the skill and motivation of their builders.

Hovenweep is noted for its solitude and undeveloped natural character. The Square Tower Group is the primary contact facility with a visitor center, campground and interpretive trail. Other groups (or villages) include Cajon, Cutthroat Castle, Goodman Point, Hackberry, Holly and Horseshoe.

On US 666, from Pleasant View, turn at the sign and follow the road for about 27 miles.
Call 1-970-527-4461

One of the few museums in the country devoted solely to one tribe; the Ute People were the indigenous inhabitants of western Colorado. The museum commemorates their life and culture and is located on the farm once belonging to the famous Ute leader, Ouray, and his wife, Chipeta. The grounds include the Ouray Memorial and the grave of Chipeta.

Two miles south of Montrose on Hwy. 550 and Chipeta Drive - now also home to the Visitor's Welcome Center. About 1-1/2 hours from Telluride, on the former farmland of Chief Ouray and his wife Chipeta. You'll find a variety of beaded items, Ute objects and artifacts.
Call 1-970-249-3098

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. Take a guided tour with Native American guides through the Ute Mountain Reservation to ancient sites, cliff dwellings, abandoned pueblos and rock art sites.

Reservations required.
Call 1-970-565-3751 ext. 282

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