Cedar Grove, NM

Cedar Grove is a Santa Fe County census-designated place on the eastern side of the Santa Fe metropolitan area. The 2020 census counted 549 residents. The place sits at high elevation in juniper country, with scattered homes and broad stretches of open land between the larger communities of Edgewood, Moriarty, and Santa Fe. Moriarty-Edgewood School District serves local students, so school buses and county roads are part of the daily map. Cedar Grove feels like a rural settlement pulled into a metropolitan orbit.

Before it became a Santa Fe suburb, Cedar Grove was a stage and freight stop, a role that makes sense in a region where long roads link mountain settlements to the valley. The old name remains a good guide to the landscape: junipers, dry grass, and foothill weather shape the view. Larger errands, jobs, and government services point toward Santa Fe or Edgewood, while local homes sit along a less-built-up grid of county roads. Cedar Grove is one of those places where the mailing address may be metropolitan, but the practical routine is still rural New Mexico.