Farmington New Mexico

 

Overnighting at the Farmington Elks Lodge

May 27 2025 Tuesday Farmington, NM Elks Lodge

This morning, we hooked up the RV and left Kamp Kolman for a brief timewise but long mileage wise side trip. We are on our way to another bucket list location, the north rim of the Grand Canyon. It’s about 600 miles by road from Los Alamos so we’ll take two days getting there. First stop is Farmington in the upper west corner of New Mexico. 



We started out on a familiar road (Hwy 84) which goes generally north to the village of Chama. In previous travels we continued north into Colorado and then west to Pagosa Springs, Durango and Cortez, but today we take highway 64 west thru the upper reaches of New Mexico.

The stretch from Chama to Farmington is thru Indian lands, first an Apache reservation and the Navajo land. It is an undeveloped high desert landscape, beautiful but desolate. You wouldn’t want to have vehicle trouble out there and have to wait for road service. 

The view from the Elks lodge camping area


We arrived in Farmington in early afternoon, it appears to be a fair-sized city but we didn’t do much sightseeing, none really except the drive through town to get to Walmart where we could park the truck/trailer and get a take-out meal and a few groceries. Then we moved to the Elks lodge where we settled into a parking lot RV site behind the lodge with water/electric and sewer for $25. 

Millie with the Farmington Elk



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