Mountaineer Card Office

Mountaineer Cards

Your Mountaineer Card serves as your official student ID. All students, faculty and staff are required to have one. Your Mountaineer Card gives you access to:

• Athletic events
• Campus activities and events
• Mountaineer Field House
• Flex Dollars (money that comes with most meal plans and can be used at Mad Jack’s and Rare Air Cafe only)
• Mountaineer Cash
• Leslie J. Savage Library
• Meal plans at Rare Air Cafe (you must have your card to enter the dining hall)
• Wilderness Pursuits
• Keyless door access

How To Get a Mountaineer Card

You will receive your first card for free. You must show an alternate ID before receiving your first card. If you are a new student to Western, you will receive your Mountaineer Card from your EPIC Mentor. If you are a new Western employee, or if you need a replacement card, visit the Mountaineer Card Office located in Taylor Hall 125. If you are an employee, you will need to obtain authorization from Human Resources to receive your first card.

Your Mountaineer Card is good for the entirety of your time at Western, and you will not be re-issued a new card each year.

Mountaineer Cash

Mountaineer Cash is money that can be put on your card to use at the following locations around campus and in town:

• Mad Jack’s
• Rare Air Cafe
• Western Bookstore
• Wilderness Pursuits

Parents: How to Add Mountaineer Cash to Your Student’s Card

Mountaineer Cash can be purchased by cash, check or credit card. You can deposit Mountaineer Cash at the following locations:

• Online at the Mountaineer Card portal (credit or debit)
  • Click “Make a guest deposit” and enter the student’s Western email address
• University Center PHIL Station (cash, credit or debit)
  • Located next to room 106 in the University Center
• Taylor Hall PHIL Station (cash, credit or debit)
  • Located next to room 314 in Taylor Hall
• Cashier’s Office
  • Call 970.943.3003 for credit or debit
  • Send a check by mail
    • Make check payable to “Western Colorado University”
    • Please include a note that reads, “I would like to add $(amount) to (student’s name or ID number) Mountaineer Cash account.”
    • Mail check to
      • Cashier’s Office
        Western Colorado University
        1 Western Way
        Gunnison, CO 81231

Mountaineer Cash rolls over from semester to semester and year to year.

Once you have deposited money onto your card, the funds can not be returned to you. Deposit wisely–you can always add more!

Lost Cards

• Report a lost card as soon as possible in one of the following ways:
• Any time: Sign in to the Mountaineer Card portal and click “Card Services.” You can deactivate a lost card here, or reactivate it if you find it.
• Business hours: Stop by the Mountaineer Card Office in Taylor Hall 125.
• Non-business hours: Call 970.943.2525 and leave a voicemail with your name and phone number.

Terms and Conditions, Disclosure Statement

Please read the Terms and Conditions and Disclosure Statement. You agree to these statements when you receive your ID card.