category : Museums
Site of Lucien Maxwell & Kit Carson's 1848 fortified settlement. Carson's reconstructed home offers a glimpse of 1850s settlement life.

Address: Located at Philmont Scout Ranch, 11 miles south of Cimarron via NM 21
Phone: 505-376-2281

Come visit us in Cimarron, New Mexico

Attractions and Upcoming Events

St. James Hotel

Began as a saloon in 1873

Cimarron, NM Historic Buildings

Villa Philmonte

Summer home of oilman Waite Phillips. Built in 1926-27

Cimarron, NM Famous Homes

Cimarron Canyon State Park

Features Cimarron Palisades, 400-foot-high crenellated granite formations. Campsites, rainbow/

Cimarron, NM Recreation

Kit Carson Museum

Site of Lucien Maxwell & Kit Carson's 1848 fortified settlement. Carson's reconstructed home offers a glimpse of 1850

Cimarron, NM Museums

Elliott S. Barker Wildlife Area

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Cimarron, NM Wildlife Areas

Things to do Museums near Cimarron, NM

Santa Fe Trail Interpretive Center and Museum

In restored 1882 Colfax County Courthouse. SFT exhibit, historic photos, artifacts unique to northeastn N.M. Territorial peri...

Philmont Museum / Seton Memorial Library

Art, camping exhibits of late author naturalist and chief Scout for Boy Scouts of America....

Folsom Museum

Displays of Folsom Man (ca. 12,000 B.C.), replicas of Folsom spear points excavated in 1920s....

Kit Carson Museum

Site of Lucien Maxwell & Kit Carson's 1848 fortified settlement. Carson's reconstructed home offers a glimpse of 1850s settle...

Tucumcari Historical Museum

Farm / ranch exhibits, Indian artifacts, early-town memoriabilia....