Cimarron is a village in Colfax County, New Mexico, United States, which sits on the eastern slopes of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.

The village is a pioneer of the four-day school week (Monday–Thursday), which it originally implemented in the early 1970s, during a time of rising fuel and utility prices.

[11] 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.

The museum's collection includes working mill parts; Native American tools, weapons and pottery; Maxwell Land Grant paperwork and documents; and other materials.

Cimarron was officially chartered in 1859 and was named for the Spanish word used to describe a mustang, meaning "wild" or "unbroken".

In 1881, the county seat was moved to Springer, a town on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway.

Cimarron continues to thrive, in part due to its proximity to Philmont Scout Ranch, as well as summer tourism.

New Mexico State Road 58 leads east from Cimarron 19 miles (31 km) to Interstate 25, north of Springer.

Cimarron has a borderline cool semi-arid climate (Köppen BSk) closely bordering on a subtropical highland climate, with summers featuring cool nights and warm days with frequent thunderstorms, and cold winters with occasional heavy snowfall.

[13] According to the United States Census Bureau, the village of Cimarron has a total area of 2.0 square miles (5.2 km2), all land.