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Cimarron, New Mexico

Everything Cimarron is known for

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Things to Do in Cimarron

Everything Near Cimarron

13 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.

  • Room 18 — The Locked Ghost Room · 0.1 mi · Things to Do

    St. James keeps Room 18 permanently empty for its resident ghost. No guests allowed.

  • Clay Allison's Cimarron · 0.1 mi · Things to Do

    Gunfighter who killed a man in the St. James then calmly finished his dinner.

  • Santa Fe Trail — Cimarron Cutoff · 0.1 mi · Things to Do

    The dangerous shortcut saved 10 days but crossed waterless desert and Comanche territory.

  • Colfax County War · 0.3 mi · Things to Do

    A 15-year range war over the Maxwell Land Grant killed an estimated 200 people.

  • St. James Hotel · 0.5 mi · Things to Do

    Wild West hotel with 400+ bullet holes in the ceiling and 26 murders in its saloon.

  • Cimarron Historic District · 0.5 mi · Scraped Hmdb

    Pull over and step back in time, because you're driving into the heart of the Wild West! This isn't just Cimarron, it's the Cimarron Historic District, a place where legends were forged. It was once a bustling trading…

  • Aztec Mill Museum · 0.5 mi · Things to Do

    1864 grist mill ground 15K lbs of wheat daily for Fort Union and Apache nations.

  • Maxwell Land Grant · 0.6 mi · Things to Do

    Largest private land holding in US history — 1.7 million acres across NM and CO.

  • Villa Philmonte · 4.0 mi · Things to Do

    A 28K sq ft Spanish Mediterranean mansion an oil baron donated to the Boy Scouts in 1941.

  • Philmont Scout Ranch · 4.5 mi · Things to Do

    Oil tycoon gave 137K acres of wilderness to the Boy Scouts. Over a million have hiked it.

  • Dawson Cemetery — Iron Crosses · 12.9 mi · Things to Do

    Ghost town cemetery with 600 white iron crosses. Two mine explosions killed 386 men total.

  • Dawson Cemetery · 12.9 mi · Scraped Hmdb

    Pull over here for a moment. This seemingly quiet cemetery holds the stories of a tragedy that ripped through this area. Dawson Cemetery is the final resting place for many of the miners who died in the Dawson Mine…

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