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

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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

Villa Philmonte

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

Cimarron, NM Famous Homes

Historic Old Town

Walk to 14

Cimarron, NM Historic Downtowns

Valle Vidal

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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...

Folsom Museum

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

Raton Museum

Mining, railroad, ranching artifacts. Art exhibits....

Mesalands Community College's Dinosaur Museum

Dinosaur, skeleton, fossil, sculpture exhibits, laboratory, classroom, museum shop....

Elizabethtown Museum

Original 1860s building, history, nearby cemetery....