Art Galleries in Raton

Raton is a small city in Colfax County in northeastern New Mexico, situated at the foot of Raton Pass - the historic gateway through the Sangre de Cristo Mountains that the Santa Fe Trail used for more than a century. The city's 19th-century brick commercial district, laid down during the coal mining and railroad booms of the 1880s and 1890s, gives Raton one of the most intact historic Main Streets in New Mexico. The Raton Arts and Humanities Council, operating out of the former Wells Fargo building, has sustained a genuine arts community here for decades, and the surrounding Cimarron Canyon country - home to the Philmont Scout Ranch, the Vermejo Park Ranch, and some of the most dramatic landscape in the southern Rockies - has long attracted painters and photographers drawn by the quality of the high-altitude light and the scale of the terrain.