Thinking about taking a pottery shard from Mesa Verde or Ute Mountain Tribal Park? Don’t ^45.5%

Colorado Public Radio - By Elaine Tassy - 12/17/2025, 11:00 AM

At Ute Mountain Tribal Park in Southwest Colorado, visitors show up promptly at 9 a.m., then join a tour with Ute guides who’ve led visitors through the home of ancestral pueblo Indians who lived there for over 400 years, between the years of 900 and 1340. Once in a while, someone will leave, surreptitiously, with a shard of pottery they... more