Ute Mountain Casino Hotel & Resort

About Ute Mountain Casino Hotel & Resort

Ute Mountain Casino Hotel & Resort is a tribal gaming resort at 3 Weeminuche Drive in Towaoc, Colorado, owned by the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe. The property opened in 1992 and operated 780 gaming machines and 6 table games — including 3 Card Poker, Bingo, Blackjack, Roulette, Ultimate Texas Hold’em, and Video Poker — with a hotel, buffet, jacuzzi, pool, resort amenities, RV parking, shops, spa, valet, and WiFi on site. The Ute Mountain Rewards loyalty program served regular guests. Gaming was regulated by the Colorado Division of Gaming under a tribal-state compact. The minimum gambling age was 21. Phone: (800) 258-8007; website: utemountaincasino.com. Ute Mountain Casino Hotel & Resort is currently closed.

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Ute Mountain Casino Hotel & Resort

Towaoc, Colorado

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Ute Mountain Casino Hotel & Resort in Towaoc, Colorado

Towaoc is the headquarters of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe’s reservation in Montezuma County in the extreme southwestern corner of Colorado, approximately 11 miles south of Cortez via US-160 west and Colorado 160. The Ute Mountain Ute Reservation encompasses land in Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah in the Four Corners region. The casino sat within the Sleeping Ute Mountain shadow, adjacent to the Ute Mountain Tribal Park — a backcountry archaeological preserve containing hundreds of Ancestral Puebloan sites. For the Four Corners gaming market, Ute Mountain Casino Hotel & Resort was the primary destination for Cortez, Durango, and the San Juan Basin corridor, providing a full resort experience in a remote high-desert location.

The resort amenity stack — hotel, buffet, pool, jacuzzi, RV park, spa, shops, and WiFi — reflected a comprehensive approach to destination hospitality on a reservation with limited surrounding infrastructure. Sportsbook capability was detected in the property’s data, consistent with Colorado’s tribal gaming compact authorizations.

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Ute Mountain Casino Hotel & Resort is no longer operating in Towaoc

Ute Mountain Casino Hotel & Resort at 3 Weeminuche Drive, Towaoc, Colorado is permanently closed. The Ute Mountain Ute Tribe's resort operated 780 gaming machines, 6 table games, a hotel, buffet, pool, RV park, spa, and full resort amenities as the primary gaming destination for the Four Corners region of Colorado since 1992. Check utemountaincasino.com or (800) 258-8007 for updates on any reopening or future plans for the site.

Samuel Okonkwo

Senior Editor, Land-Based Gaming Law