Chetro Ketl. photo by cm195902 on Flickr

After you watch the video below, click on this link for Chaco Canyon Camping if you will be travelling in an RV.

Chaco Canyon Camping & Other Ruins to See

Chaco Canyon is one of many Native American attractions to see in the immediate area where you will be travelling and there are a number of unique places that I’m guessing you’ll want to see if you are coming to this area. Watch this short video to discover what I’m talking about.

Chaco Canyon Camping

Although you could stay a night or two at Chaco Canyon before your return, you’d be missing out on a number of amazing experiences in the immediate area and you’d be missing out on a number of good restaurants and experiences that you can find if you stay in Farmington, NM.

Aztec Ruins for example is just next door to Farmington and Durango is a short drive away as well. If you get a chance, the Durango to Silverton narrow gauge railroad is definitely worth your time (you’ll know what I mean when you see deer and other wild animals and experience the canyons and rushing rivers from the open boxcars).

You may also want to visit the Four Corners National Monument where you can stand in four states at the same time.

So, if you are looking for Chaco Canyon Camping, consider staying in Farmington at Sundowner RV Park – the park usually fills up fast but they often have spaces for travelers who find them on the Internet, so mention this blog post when you call (505)327-1671.

Image by Phil Konstantin

When would now be a good time to visit the Four Corners States, which include Utah, Colorado, Arizona and Utah?

The is a magical part of the country rich with natural wonders, lakes, rivers, mountains, Native American ruins, trading posts and modern day attractions and one of the best ways to see the area is in an RV (…if you don’t have an RV, don’t worry, we’ll show you how you can do it.).

Of course, on of the challenges with so much to see is where to stay.

You may or may not have realized that Farmington is a great place to stay while you tour the area (check our our Farmington RV Park).

Seeing the Four Corners States in an RV

If you want to see the Four Corners States, then traveling in an RV is a great way to do it.

What If You Don’t Have an RV?

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Once you arrive in your RV, you’ll find that Farmington is surrounded by beauty – historic sites, vineyards, trading posts, monuments, lakes, mountains, world-class fishing and golf, and Native American events and crafts.

There’s a reason why people all the way back to the Anasazi have been settling in the area.

I’m not going to suggest you imagine being here already, but once you get here, you may want consider:

• Aztec Ruins – Visit the ancestral Pueblo ruins or the nearby Salmon Ruins and Heritage Park. These ruins can be traced back to the ancestral Puebloans known as the “Anasazi.”
• Canyon De Shelly – This park is unique amongst the different National Parks because it is made up entirely of Navajo Tribal Trust Land. Enjoy the sacred ruins, beautiful canyons and cottonwood trees that are home to a community of Navajo people.
• Four Corners Monument – No trip would be complete without a trip to stand in four states at the same exact time.
• Chaco Canyon – Enjoy the ruins that were once a major center for the Puebloan people between AD 850 and 1250.

What will you have done by the time your visit is over?  Sightseeing, fly-fishing, rafting, world-class golf, 4×4 rock climbing, skiing or snowboarding or even a winery tour?

Overnight Excursion to Attractions in the Four Corners States

Depending on how much you’ve thought about your trip to the Four Corners states, you may or may not have realized that Farmington is uniquely positioned as a great home base for your trips to the surrounding areas.  We’ll be happy to help coordinate your comings and goings as you experience the magic that the Four Corners has to offer.

This is an economical and fun way to see the area and many of the surrounding monuments and sites can accommodate your RV.

When you return to Sundowner, we’ll be waiting for you with full service hookups, 50 amp service to power all of your appliances, big spaces with concrete aprons so you can use your slide outs if you have them and wireless internet so you can relax and surf the internet.

We’ll be happy to help you. Just give us a call at (505) 327-1671 to check availability for your next trip to the Four Corners States.

Image by Phil Konstantin

I’d like to suggest that Farmington is a great place to stay and to use as your “home base” while you tour the area (check our our Farmington RV Park).

Seeing the Four Corners Monument in an RV

If you want to see the Four Corners, then traveling in an RV is a great way to go and Farmington is a great central location from which to plan your daily excursions.

As you explore the area, you’ll find that Farmington is surrounded by ruins, historic sites, trading posts and incredible beauty. There’s a reason why people choose to live here – in addition to the Four Corners Monument, we’re surrounded by beauty in almost every direction.

I’m not going to suggest you imagine being here already, but once you get here, you may want consider:

• Canyon De Shelly – This park is unique amongst the different National Parks because it is made up entirely of Navajo Tribal Trust Land. Enjoy the sacred ruins, beautiful canyons and cottonwood trees that are home to a community of Navajo people.
• Chaco Canyon – Enjoy the ruins that were once a major center for the Puebloan people between AD 850 and 1250.
• Aztec Ruins – Visit the ancestral Pueblo ruins or the nearby Salmon Ruins and Heritage Park. These ruins can be traced back to the ancestral Puebloans known as the “Anasazi.”

While you’re here, you may want to experience fresh-water fly-fishing, rafting, world-class golf, and even winery tours and 4×4 rock-climbing.

Overnight Excursion to Four Corners Monument

You may or may not have considered one of the best ways to see the Four Corners Monument and the area is to use your car for day trips and to then use your RV for overnight trips to the surrounding sites. This is a great and very economical way to see the area and spend enough time in each location to fully appreciate each of the sites.

Many of the surrounding sites have facilities for RVs and you can always use our full hookups, 50 amp service, and wireless internet while you are staying with us.

We’ll be happy to help you. Just give us a call at (505) 327-1671 to check availability for your next trip to the Four Corners Monument.

If you are planning your next RV trip around staying in one of the Durango RV Parks, then you might become aware of the allure of a town just south of Durango on the other side of the Colorado-New Mexico Border.

Many RV owners are able to see the sites and enjoy the shopping in Durango withough missing on everything that the Farmington area has to offer because they do the Durango RV Park – Farmington RV Park Two Step – they stay in Durango for a portion of their trip and they stay in Farmington for the rest of their trip.

Durango RV Parks: A Great Place to Start

Staying at one of the Durango RV parks is a great way to start your vacation. You can see Downtown Durango, enjoy the Uncompahgre Peak, take day trips to Vallecito Reservoir and the Bar-D Ranch and maybe even ride the world-famous Durango-Silverton Narrow Guage Railroad.

Aztec Ruins

After you’ve enjoyed the cool mountain air and seen the sites, head down south less than an hour and take in the Native American culture in Farmington. Farmington and the surrounding area hae a rich heritage dating back thousands of years.

Enjoy local artisans, Native American Trading posts, and numerous festivals and pow-wows thorughout the year.

Durango RV Parks: A Little Too Far for Some of the Native American Ruins

Any trip to the Four Corners area, where Utah, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona meet, would be incomplete without a trip to experience some of the local Native American Ruins.

While day trips from Farmington to Durango are pretty easy, a lot of people find that some of the trips to the local ruins take long enough that it makes more sense to stay in Farmington.

I’m not going to suggest you imagine being here already, but once you get here, you may want consider:

• Canyon De Shelly – This park is unique amongst the different National Parks because it is made up entirely of Navajo Tribal Trust Land. Enjoy the sacred ruins, beautiful canyons and cottonwood trees that are home to a community of Navajo people.
• Chaco Canyon – Enjoy the ruins that were once a major center for the Puebloan people between AD 850 and 1250.
• Aztec Ruins – Visit the ancestral Pueblo ruins or the nearby Salmon Ruins and Heritage Park.  These ruins can be traced back to the ancestral Puebloans known as the “Anasazi.”

While you’re here, you may want to experience fresh-water fly-fishing, rafting, world-class golf, and even winery tours and 4×4 rock-climbing.

Either way, it’s nice to know that the Durango RV Parks are just one part of the Durango-Farmington Two-Step and when you’re ready to add Farmington to your list, call us at (505)327-1671 for availability and suggested trips and sites to see in the area.

If you are looking for a place to live in Farmington, I’d like to suggest expanding your search to include more than just Farmington Apartments.

By the end of this short article, I think you’ll understand how the mobile homes at Sundowner represent a better experience and better value than traditional apartments.

Let’s start with the reasons why apartments make sense…

Farmington Apartments: The Benefits

A number of apartment owners have taken steps to provide positive, clean and affordable housing. Here are some of the positives of living in some of the Farmington Apartments:

• Community – We live in a world where it’s harder and harder to feed our need to be social and engage with people (Facebook only goes so far).
• Location – Many of the apartments are well-located, close to restaurants, shopping and entertainment.
• Amenities – Farmington has several nice swimming pools that you can take advantage of if your apartment complex does not have a community pool.
• Done For You Maintenance – One of the benefits of living in an apartment, instead of a single-family home, is not having to do maintenance (…just make sure you rent from someone who actually takes care of your maintenance requests).

Farmington Apartments: The Negatives

Traditional apartments have a few drawbacks that are worth considering before you sign your next lease. Here they are:

• Shared Walls – When you share walls with your neighbors, you don’t have a lot of control if your neighbors decide to party all night or watch their television full blast.
• Shared Floor or Ceiling – If you are in a two-story apartment complex, you may have to put up with noisy neighbors (see above)
• Shared Common Areas – Most apartment complexes have shared areas instead of private areas.
• Parking – Some of the apartments in Farmington have parking right in front of the apartment, but many do not and that means you have to carry your heavy groceries farther (…or up stairs)
• Low Levels of Natural Light – Exposure to natural light has been shown to increase happiness (…and who wouldn’t like to be happier?).

Farmington Apartments vs Farmington Mobile Homes for Rent

You can essentially experience the same benefits at Sundowner with fewer negatives.

Sundowner doesn’t have a community pool, but it is very close to the pools at Lyons Park and Brookside park (…and we believe not having a pool is safer for children).

Our residents don’t have to share walls, ceilings or floors with noisy neighbors, which makes it easier to get a good night’s sleep. You can park just feet from your door, which makes bringing home the groceries easy. If you have a maintanence request, our quick-response maintenance crew will be on the job. Our mobile homes for rent have a lot of natural light because they don’t share walls with neighbors. Want a private yard? You’ll have one at Sundowner.

What To Do Next:

If you are looking at Farmington Apartments, you might want to open your mind and broaden your search to include quality mobile homes for rent in Farmington’s nicest mobile home park – call (505)327-1671 today and mention this article for a complimentary tour of the property and available homes.

If you are looking for clean and quiet apartments in Farmington NM, then I would like to show you how you can find your next place to live.

Nobody wants to live in a dirty, nasty home (…or neighborhood for that matter) and you are probably already aware of the fact that getting restful sleep is important for your health, happiness and career.

How Can You Find Quiet Apartments in Farmington NM?

One of the best ways to find a quiet place to live is to visit the property more than once. Most people only visit the community where they are thinking about living when they go for the official tour with the property manager.

When do most tours happen?

In the middle of the day when most of the neighbors are at work.

When do you want your neighbors to be quiet?

At night, right?

So, if you want to find a place where you will be able to get a full nights sleep, then you may want to seriously consider visiting the property in the evening around the time you like to go to bed (…you may want to let the property manager know when you are planning to visit in case one of the neighbors wonders who you are).

Clean Apartments in Farmington NM

If you value a clean place to live, then there are several things you can do.

First, check out the property. Is the landscaping in good shape? Is the property free of trash and litter?

Is the parking lot full of cars that are in bad shape or do you see any broken down cars on the property? If you do, that’s usually not a good sign.

If the outside of place where you will be living is dirty or in bad shape, it’s not worth your time to schedule a tour of the apartment.

If everything looks good on the outside, then schedule a tour and pay special attention to the following areas:

• Bathrooms – pay special attention to the bathtub, shower, and toilet
• Kitchen – look in the corners underneath the cabinets and open up the oven and refridgerator (…the cabinets aren’t covered in dried grease are they?)
• Windows – are the insides of the windows and the window sills (the track the window sits in) clean?

Have You Considered…

This may not be relevant to you, but one option to consider if you ar looking for apartments in Farmington NM, is to start your search at a place where the rentals are already clean and quiet.

After all, it’s easy to find a clean, quiet place to live when the owners of the property make those things a top priority, isn’t it?

Sundowner has high-quality, newer-model manufactured homes that offer all the benefits of living in a single-family home with none of the negatives associated with living in an apartment.

Instead of living in on the apartments in Farmington NM, Just imaginge yourself living in a large home with big windows, no shared walls and rental rates so low that you have plenty of money left over at the end of the month.

One of the things that you are really going to love about Sundowner is the quiet, clean environment that our residents enjoy. If you are ready to experience to apartments in Farmington NM then call us today at (505) 327-1671 to see our super-clean and spacious homes today.

If you are looking for affordable apartments in Farmington NM then you may or may not have realized that it can be very difficult to find a place that is both affordable and nice enough to live in.

I’d like to show you how you can have the best of both worlds – a place that you are proud to call home and plenty of money in your bank account at the end of the month.

Is Searching for Affordable Apartments in Farmington NM Really the Only Option?

It’s good that you are searching for an affordable place to live – it shows that you are being financially responsible and I would like to suggest a way for to live in a great place that’s also affordable.

When you need a place to live, apartments naturally come to mind.

Our residents choose to skip the hassles of associated with living in an apartment so they can live in high quality manufactured homes that often rent for affordable rates. Many of them harbored some fears about “mobile homes” until they took a tour of the Sundowner community and realized that the mobile home stereotype doesn’t apply here.

Apartments in Farmington NM – Just One of Three Options

Has it ever occured to you that manufactured homes are a better option than apartments?

• Manufactured homes don’t have shared walls like apartments do (…which makes it easier to get a good nights sleep).
• Manufactured homes have lots of natural light (…with big windows on 3 to 4 sides of the home).
• Manufactured homes have yards (…not common areas you have to share with everyone else).
• Manufactured homes let you park your car very close to your front door (…which makes carrying groceries a joy instead of a hassle).

As sit there, reading this, you might like to start thinking about all the the money you will save by renting a manufactured home instead of continuing your search for affordable apartments in Farmington NM – call us today at (505) 327-1671 to see our super-clean, spacious and affordable homes today.

If your looking for an RV Park in Farmington NM, then I would like to suggest several things that will help you have an enjoyable experience while you are in Farmington.

Farmington has several RV parks to choose from and each location has it’s pluses and minuses, but you can apply these criteria to all of them.

RV Park in Farmington NM – What to Look For

• Is the park paved, gravel or dirt? New Mexico enjoys about 273 days of sunshine, which means the dirt gets very dry and very dusty. It also rains and snows here, which translates into muddy conditions if you are driving on dirt.
• Does the park offer wireless internet access? Unless you have a wireless data card, it’s nice to find a park that offers free or low-cost wireless access.
• Are your utilities included in the rental rate? What about cable television?
• Is the property manager professional and courteous on the phone? You never know when you are going to have a problem that you need the property manager to either fix or help you fix. If the property manager is rude or seems annoyed on the phone, how are they going to react when you need help?
• Where is the park located? Is it close to restaurants, grocery stores and shopping? If not, then you may pay a lower rental rate, but you’ll quickly eat up the savings at the gas pump due to all the driving you’ll be doing to get to town.
• Does the park offer 50 AMP service? If you’re travelling in a big RV, this can be a must-have.

RV Park in Farmington NM – Sundowner

You have several options when you are looking for an RV space in Farmington. You also have have several options if you are willing to stay outside of town and drive to local restaurants, shopping and entertainment (…but with the cost of gas, it makes more and more sense to stay in town).

Sundowner is located on the west side of Farmington and is the only mobile home park in Downtown Farmington, NM. Visit us today and check out gravel spaces that have concrete pads and trees (located on our paved and gravel streets). Our RV guests enjoy fast, professional service and complimentary wireless internet access. We offer 50 AMP service, competitive rates and we accept most major credit cards.

If you’re looking for an RV park in Farmington NM, then call us today at (505) 327-1671 to check availability (our spaces fill up fast, especially during local events).

If you are headed to Durango in your RV to take advantage of the mountains and the area attractions, you may be considering staying in one of the Durango RV Parks.

I’d like to share an alternative with you before you reserve your RV space.

What if you could stay nearby, see world-class attractions that you’ll miss in Durango, and save money in the process?

Just south of Durango, across the border, you’ll find Farmington, NM, which offers easy access to not only Durango, but also to world famous fishing, golf, Native American festivals, trading posts and ruins.

Picture Farmington as the center of a wheel – it’s a great home base from which you can explore the surrounding sites. Some of the local attractions in or around Farmington include:

• Aztec Ruins
• Salmon Ruins
• The Bisti Wilderness
• The Anasazi ruins at Mesa Verde
• Chaco Canyon
• Angel Peak
• Shiprock Pinnacle
• Historic trading posts
• The Outdoor Summer THeatre at Lions Wilderness Park
• World famous golfing at Pinon Hills
• Art Museums
• Trout fishing on the Quality Waters at Navajo Dam

Durango RV Parks versus Farmington RV Parks

Farmington is located just 46 miles from Durango and many of the people who choose Farmington as a home base make day trips to take advantage of the things that Durango has to offer (like the Silverton Narrow Guage or the Bar-D Ranch).

Choosing Farmington as your home base will keep your costs low while giving you lots of dining, shopping and sightseeing options from a more centralized location.

You Can Always Stay in One of the Durango RV Parks – Maybe It’s Time for Farmington

If your heart is set on staying in Durango, I wouldn’t advise you to stay in Farmington until you realize how much Farmington has to offer.

If you’re ready to stay in Farmington instead of one of the Durango RV Parks then call us today at (505) 327-1671 to find out about available RV spaces.

If you are trying to figure out which of the Apartments in Farmington NM is the best apartment for you, then one helpful tup is to clearly define what you are looking for.

Knowing what you want will help you quickly eliminate the options that don’t measure up to what you are looking for.

Apartments in Farmington NM: Things to Consider

Here are some things to consider when deciding what’s important to you in your next place to live in Farmington:

1. Natural light – how much natural light is important to you (more natural light has been linked to increased happiness – read more here)
2. Cleanliness – how clean is the unit when you take a tour?
3. Community – what does the community look like?  Is it junky of clean?  Are the cars beat up or in relatively good condition?
4. Big enough – is the unit big enough for you and your things?  Feeling cramped is no fun.
5. Rental rate – it’s easy to fall in love with a place and end up strapped for cash.  A good rule of thumb is that you should make or have enough income to equal about three times the monthly rent
6. Maintenance – Find out how long it takes the maintenance crew to respond to maintenance requests.  This is one of the biggest sources of frustration when you are renting and you shouldn’t have to put up with big delays.
7. Background and credit checks – if they don’t do them, you are rolling the dice on who you might end up with as neighbors

Apartments in Farmington NM Aren’t the Only Option

Of course, apartments aren’ the only option you have when it comes to where you are going to live next.  You can also rent a single-family home or a manufactured home.  Manufactured homes offer the benefits of both apartments and single-family homes without all of the negatives.

Single-family homes usually cost more and require you to do a lot of the maintenance.  Manufactured homes often cost less than single-family homes for rent AND apartments – that means more money in your pocket at the end of the month.

Another big benefit of manufactured homes is that they are open, spacious, full of natural-light and you can sleep easier at night because there are no shared walls.

If you are looking at apartments in Farmington NM then call us today at (505) 327-1671 to see our super-clean and spacious manufactured homes today.