Sleeps 2–8$129–$249
Log Cabins
Seven log cabins with their own kitchens and bathrooms, most with a separate lounge — Wolf Lair, Bear Den, Moose Lodge, River Ridge, Antler Meadow, Mountain Spring and Winter Retreat.
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Your base to nature
Cabins, lodge rooms & RV sites in South Fork, Colorado
Seventeen acres backing onto the Rio Grande National Forest, a short walk from the Rio Grande River and twenty miles down the highway from the most snow in Colorado.
Welcome to Ute Bluff
Three ways to stay, one very good spot
Creatively decorated rustic log cabins, comfortable lodge rooms and fully equipped RV spaces — all on the same seventeen quiet acres. Whether you are here for a week of fishing, a powder day at Wolf Creek, or a weekend of doing very little, this is a good place to put your boots down.
Sleeps 2–4$109 / night
Lodge Rooms
Twenty-one rooms in the main lodge at one flat rate — two queens, a king, or a king and queen. Fridge, microwave, coffee, cable TV and free Wi-Fi in every one.
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30 & 50 amp$40–$50
RV Park
Level full-hookup sites, back-in and pull-through. $40 a night on 30 amp, $50 on 50 amp, with the hot tub, laundry and rec room included.
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Everything you need between adventures
Hot tub
Waiting for you after a long day on the trail or the hill, with grills alongside.
Rec room & pool table
A fully accessible room with a pool table, large kitchen and long tables — ideal for groups and reunions.
Guest laundry
On-site washers and dryers, because two weeks of fishing shirts add up.
A real tipi
The one on our logo is the one on our lawn. The kids find it before you finish checking in.
The location
Where the pavement stops being the point
Ute Bluff sits right on Highway 160, but the forest starts at the back fence. Walk the Ute Bluff Nature Trail from the property, wet a line in Gold Medal water, or load the sleds and go.
- Adjacent to the Rio Grande National Forest
- Minutes from the Rio Grande River
- About 20 miles to Wolf Creek Ski Area
- Two million acres of public land nearby
- Nature trail on the property
- Downtown South Fork just up the road
Under new ownership
Hello — I’m Johnny Shaw
I took over Ute Bluff because I believe this property is one of the best-placed spots in the San Luis Valley, and it deserves to be run like it.
We are working through the whole place unit by unit — refreshing the cabins and lodge rooms, tightening up the grounds, and getting the little things right. If something is not what you expected during your stay, come tell me at the office. I would much rather hear it from you than read it later.
Come see us. We will do our best to make your visit an easy one.
17
Acres
7
Log cabins
21
Lodge rooms
4
Seasons open
All year
Come in summer. Come back in winter.
Green season
Gold Medal trout water on more than thirty miles of the Rio Grande, thirteen lakes within twenty minutes, twenty-plus hiking trails, jeep roads into the high country, rafting, horseback riding and golf at the Rio Grande Club. Then a hot tub and a porch chair.
Plan a summer trip
Snow season
Wolf Creek Ski Area gets the most snow in Colorado — 1,600 acres, five lifts, fifty trails, about twenty miles up Highway 160. Add 255 miles of groomed snowmobile trails, cross-country tracks, ice fishing and ice climbing on the pass.
Plan a ski trip
Ready when you are
Call the office and we will talk through which cabin, room or site fits your trip — and what the weather is actually doing up here.
Office open 8 AM–9 PM daily · Phones answered 24/7