Welcome to Grants Cibola County
and our Surrounding Areas!

Welcome to Grants, Cibola County and our Surrounding areas. We are a delicious melting pot of many cultures. Northwest New Mexico is rich in culture and history. Typical of high desert, we enjoy a beautiful year-round climate perfect for hiking and exploring. Cibola County is a geological dream come true with mesas, mountains, forests, sandstone cliffs and malpais full of wildlife.

     Grants is a small town of 9,000 people nestled between Albuquerque and Gallup. Along with some of the most beautiful sunsets in the world, we also provide a very affordable landscape with low property taxes and inexpensive housing. Grants was officially established as a railroad camp in the 1880's. With abundant forest land Grants soon grew as a lumber town. The lumber boom ended in the 1940s. Grants at one time had developed an agriculture title of the Carrot Capital of the World. Grant's history dates back to 1872 with the homestead of Don Jesus Blea. Because of all the beautiful Cottonwood trees along the San Jose Creek the area was named "Los Alamitos" (the Cottonwoods). Gypsum, Pumice, and Fluorspar were all mined before Uranium and until 1919 copper ore was mined by Dave Shiteside in the Zuni Mountains. Route 66 stretched from Chicago to California bringing tourism on a much greater scale to the area. A Navajo sheepherder named Paddy Martinez discovered Uranium in the area creating a mining boom. This brought people and jobs to our community and it lasted for over 30 years.