NMNew Mexico field entry
Casa Grande Trading Post
Cerrillos, NM
A Cerrillos trading post where turquoise jewelry, rocks, minerals, bottles and desert curios fill a sprawling adobe property that also contains a mining museum and a petting zoo of goats, a llama, chickens and other animals.
Casa Grande combines a working turquoise-and-rock trading post with a dense private mining-history collection and an animal yard, turning one family-built adobe property into shop, museum and petting zoo.
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Why it belongs
Trading post, rock and mineral shop, turquoise-jewelry operation, mining-history museum and petting zoo.
Trading post, turquoise and mineral retailer, jewelry operation, local mining museum and petting zoo inside one family-run destination.
Casa Grande Trading Post occupies a sprawling adobe property in the historic village of Cerrillos along New Mexico's Turquoise Trail. Its retail rooms sell rocks, minerals, locally made gifts, sterling-silver jewelry and Cerrillos turquoise, while the attached Cerrillos Turquoise Mining Museum preserves mining tools, photographs, bottles, minerals and other objects connected to the area's mining history. Outside, visitors encounter a small petting zoo with goats, a llama, chickens and other animals, with feed sold inside the store. The result is part rock shop, part trading post, part private museum and part roadside animal stop.
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What you will find
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Known for
- Cerrillos turquoise
- Sterling-silver jewelry
- Rocks and minerals
- Historic bottles and curios
- Mining-history museum
- Mining artifacts
- Petting zoo
- Adobe property