7 Best Shopping in Northeastern New Mexico, New Mexico

Jespersen's Cache, a pack rat's paradise, is a place to get lost for a morning or afternoon. The sheer mass of stuff is astounding—boxed Barbies, railroad lanterns, Depression-era glass, carousel horses. If you've got a collector's eye, you could make your lucky find here.

You can enter a city slicker and exit a cowboy or cowgirl. The enormous space, an experience as much as a store, is full of fashionable, practical Western garb. Check out the collection of cowboy hats.

Blue Moon Eclectics has locally made arts and crafts as well as some Navajo and Zuni jewelry.

Just off the main highway to the north is East 9th Street, a street of historic buildings and a few shops. The Cimarron Art Gallery sells Southwestern odds and ends, and artifacts, and has a 1930s soda fountain for dishing out ice cream, sodas, and coffee drinks.

Hattie Sloan, proprietor of the Heirloom Shop, was one of the key figures involved in the restoration of Historic First Street. Hattie and her daughter and co-owner Cathy know their antiques and have packed this highly browse-worthy shop with beautiful selections, from rhinestone necklaces to quilts, china, and linens.

Rubin's Family Clothiers sells Pendleton shirts, woolen skirts, and well-made shoes. Its owners, Kathryn and Leon Rubin, can tell you a thing or two about local history—their store has been in the family for almost a century.

Given the quality of some of the merchandise, the prices at Santa Fe Trail Traders are reasonable. Items include earrings, sand paintings, dream catchers, Nambé hand-cast bowls, Navajo rugs old and new, beadwork, and kachinas (many by well-known artists).