{"id":65207,"date":"2020-03-18T20:01:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T02:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/ute-mountain-casino-and-hotel-in-towaoc-closes\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T05:21:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:21:19","slug":"ute-mountain-casino-and-hotel-in-towaoc-closes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/ute-mountain-casino-and-hotel-in-towaoc-closes\/","title":{"rendered":"Ute Mountain Casino and Hotel in Towaoc closes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=46532041-68da-4b03-9d19-b074ca0a388b&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"The Ute Mountain Casino and hotel closed Wednesday because of the threat of the coronavirus.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Ute Mountain Casino and hotel closed Wednesday because of the threat of the coronavirus.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The Ute Mountain Casino and Hotel in Towoac closed Wednesday to prevent the potential spread of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<p>Kuchu\u2019s Restaurant will continue to serve to-go orders, but there will be no inside dining service.<\/p>\n<p>The Ute Mountain tribal council ordered all gaming operations be suspended \u201cafter determining the potential presence of the virus presents a serious threat to the health of all persons on or entering the Reservation,\u201d according to a tribe press release.<\/p>\n<p>Hotel services will end as soon as reasonable accommodations can be made for its current patrons. The nearby RV park is also closed down.<\/p>\n<p>The closures of the casino, hotel, and RV park will last through April 8, or until further notice, health and tribal officials report.<\/p>\n<p>The Ute Mountain Casino and Resort has a staff of 400, and is the second-largest employer in Montezuma County.<\/p>\n<p>No confirmed cases of the coronavirus reported are on the Ute Mountain Reservation or in Montezuma County, health officials report.<\/p>\n<p>The Ute Mountain Ute Tribal Council has been in frequent consultation with tribal, state and federal health officials, who are closely monitoring the advance of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, tribal officials said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/durangoherald.com\/articles\/349546-southern-ute-tribal-council-closes-casino-gaming-governmental-departments-in-response-to-covid19\">Southern Ute Tribal Council closes casino gaming, governmental departments in response to COVID-19<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Restaurant at Montezuma County\u2019s second-largest employer serves to-go orders<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[685,21,11,1255,13,29,1187,144,1879,547],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-65207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-coronavirus-covid-19","tag-cortez","tag-economy-general","tag-employment","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-newsletter","tag-tourism","tag-towaoc","tag-ute-mountain-casino","tag-ute-mountain-ute-indian-tribe"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90019,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65207\/revisions\/90019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65207"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=65207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}