Cimarron is a village in Colfax County, New Mexico, United States, which sits on the eastern slopes of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. The population was 1,021 at the 2010 census, making it the fourth most populous municipality in Colfax County.

Cimarron sits upon the Cimarron River, a tributary of the 900 mile-long Canadian River, whose headwaters are at the Eagle Nest Dam, with the main allowance of town lying along U.S. Route 64. The village is surrounded on anything sides by numerous ranches, including Philmont Scout Ranch, an extensive “high-adventure base” operated by the Boy Scouts of America. Philmont is located just four miles south of Cimarron. Other ranches also include the Chase Ranch (famous for its heart-shaped brand and allegedly the Marlboro Man’s place of origin), Ted Turner’s Vermejo Park Ranch, the CS Ranch, the Express UU Bar Ranch (formerly the property of Waite Phillips), and the Clearview Ranch of the western singer/songwriter R.W. Hampton, as with ease as numerous other little ranches. The Elliott Barker State Wildlife Area, the Valle Vidal unit of the Carson National Forest, and Cimarron Canyon State Park., are along with located within the Cimarron area. 17 miles and 28 miles to the northeast is Dawson, New Mexico, a ghost town with a population of on pinnacle of 9,000 close the upfront 20th century, and the Raton Municipal Airport, respectively.

The village is a entrepreneur of the four-day bookish week (Monday–Thursday), which it originally implemented in the to come 1970s, during a epoch of rising fuel and sustain prices. Cimarron is home to the 1979 New Mexico High School Boys Basketball State Championship team.

In 1842, Lucien B. Maxwell, a fur trapper, came to the Beaubien-Miranda Ranch in northern New Mexico and courted and married Luz Beaubien, one of the owner’s six daughters. He eventually familial the ranch and built a big mansion in 1858 on the sophisticated town site.