Start from 19 curated places around Farmington, NM, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
Three Rivers Eatery & Brewhouse
Farmington's flagship brewpub, spread across restored historic downtown buildings, brewing its own beer and serving a broad pub menu of burgers, pizzas, and entrees. The social anchor of downtown and the obvious first stop.
Boon's Family Thai BBQ
A genuinely good Thai kitchen with a barbecue twist, doing curries, noodles, and grilled meats to a devoted local following. The standout non-American, non-Mexican option in town and a welcome change of pace.
Trails & outdoors
Animas River Trail
A flat, paved riverside path running for miles through Farmington's Berg and Animas parks, shaded by cottonwoods along the water and linking ponds, gardens, and a wildlife area. The easy, accessible spine of the city's outdoor recreation.
Glade Run Recreation Area
An extensive network of singletrack and old roads on the sandstone mesas north of town, popular with mountain bikers and hikers for its slickrock, piñon-juniper, and big open views. Farmington's high-desert trail playground.
Things to do
Farmington Museum at Gateway Park
A well-done regional museum covering the area's geology, oil-and-gas history, and trading-post era, with hands-on exhibits and a re-created trading post. A solid, family-friendly indoor stop with rotating shows.
E3 Children's Museum & Science Center
A hands-on children's museum with interactive science and play exhibits aimed at younger kids. The go-to indoor outing for families with little ones in Farmington.
Landmarks & sights
Aztec Ruins National Monument
A remarkably intact Ancestral Puebloan 'great house' of 400-plus masonry rooms built around 1100 AD in nearby Aztec, with a fully reconstructed Great Kiva you can step inside, the only one in the country. The most impressive and accessible ancient site within reach of town.
Salmon Ruins & Heritage Park
A Chacoan great house on a bluff above the San Juan in Bloomfield, paired with a heritage park of relocated pioneer homesteads, hogans, and a tepee. Less polished than Aztec Ruins but layered with both ancient and frontier history.