Cimarron Canyon State Park

Hiked Maverick Peak trail. It was snowy, but still a great hike. Views driving through the canyon are gorgeous!! Can't wait to come back.

Cimarron Canyon is an amazing place with the most beautiful and dramatic features. The day use parks and overnight campgrounds are in great shape and provide a excellent retreat from the world. Cimarron Creek runs through the canyon with lots of pull outs to sit, fish, or draw. I stayed at the Maverick Campground. Well managed with running water. They have sites that are not up against the road, so it's quite with several stocked fishing ponds. Overnight is just $10. Best deal ever!

The park itself is really cool. The scenery is awesome, truly the perfect blend of mountain and plains. We stayed for 3 nights, two of them at the blackjack campground. The campground was nice, the fire rings were good and the picnic table was good. If you are tent camping, I highly recommend staying in the blackjack area. You can’t book it online and you do have to walk to the site but it’s not too far. There is no engine break ordinance and people are not super considerate on the main road. I was woken up a few times from very loud vehicles passing. As far as reservations go, if you do a walk in, then you just fill out a slip of paper at the site and pay in the self pay area. Rangers come around and check every night so make sure to have your permit displayed. We tried to go to the visitors center but the door was locked so I guess nobody was there even though it said it was open. THERE ARE NO SHOWERS. So don’t count on being able to wash up. There are vault toilets and actual flushing toilets at most of the campsites. Overall it was good. Recommend doing the clear water creek hike if you can!

Absolutely beautiful! Majestic scenery ✨️ places to sit bathrooms were close by loved it!

This was a very "strange" state park RV campground, but I still really liked and enjoyed our 3 days camping here. The overall park is very beautiful & was wonderfully green for this time of year in the southwestern desert mountains. Its a strange campground, because its basically a huge paved parking lot with truck & trailer combo or RV sized marked parking spaces, but zero hook-ups (which I have since come to learn is a norm for many NM state park RV campgrounds). There is also 2 bathrooms - one with sinks, & another huge vault toilet without running water - but there were no showers anywhere. There was also no marked dump stations. There was 3 running water spigots to use in random places in the parking lot that you were permitted to fill your tanks with, but 2 were located at sites (one was occupied by the host), so are therefore essentially inaccessible. In spite of these issues I still like the park, as the camp host was super nice & helpful and we met some very nice & helpful other guests here. Its also a pretty location overlooking a mountain/canyon wall (I was even inspired to paint it!). I should also note that the facility is also very well-maintain & kept clean by super nice staff. There is also walking access to the creek, which was nice. I gave a 4 due to the lack of infrastructure & facilities, however, as I don't think it should be much of a stretch for the state on NM to put in at least a few more electric pedestals & more publically accessible water spigots (since the host has one each) - but I really liked it. I also gave it a 4 for noise. Since its mostly an RV boondocking parking lot, in the summer it seems like every other person is running a generator. The campground is also literally right off the highway (which I've also learned is another NM state park norm).