Regular Hours: The Monticello Welcome Center/ Frontier Museum/Big 4 Tractor is currently open Monday thru Sunday 9:00am to 6:00pm.
Middle of Spring and we have snow and chilling winds. Come visit anyway, there are still lots of things to do.
Snow, snow and more snow-For those snow birds out there, Monticello and the National Forest Dept. have groomed a cross country ski trail up by Dalton Springs Campgrounds in the Abajo Mountains. Maps are available at the Welcome Center and on visit monticello.org.
The Frontier Museum has a new display-Kent Frost, a local adventurer and guide of many years past. All the Kent Frost displays, in the Frontier Museum, were hand made by the adventurer himself. If you look closely at the pieces, you will see a heart on most of them. He was very partial to hearts and they became his signature; he was an extremely talented man. In 1997, he wrote a book about his adventures and passions called, My Canyonlands. The Welcome Center is pleased to have copies of this marvelous book for sale.
Another local adventurer and miner from the early history of this county was Joe Duckett. The two men were actually friends. They would get together, occasionally, and exchange stories. The Welcome Center also has a book about Joe, Joe Duckett: The Hermit of Montezuma Canyon for sale here.
The Welcome Center now features items for sale, such as, hand made Native American pottery(from Cedar Mesa Pottery Factory, in Blanding, Utah) and pottery made by a local pottery Artisan, Tony Wojcik. Tony's pieces have the emblem for Monticello, Utah. All the pottery is absolutely marvelous. We encourage all to come in and check it out.
Another local artisan, Carol Van Stetter, has supplied the center with note cards of her "cow paintings." A number of her subjects actually lived around Monticello, Utah. The "Rare, so Stare", Big Four Tractor, has been immortalized in t-shirts; sizes range from Youth to 3XL; and tours of the tractor are available.
Want to own a piece of Pioneer History; then why not purchase a wooden frame, created by Monticello High School students, from original fencing surrounding Pioneer Park (original site of the pioneer's first church).
Speaking of history, and the Welcome Center and Frontier Museum is brimming in it; anyone interested in the mining industry and millsites can see the display paying tribute to the Cottonwood Millsite.
That's right, not only can the Monticello Welcome Center send you on great adventures, we are one!
So, stop on in and say Hello!
Dorothy - Director of Welcome Services
Mary - Community Ambassador
Photography by Mary Cokenour
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