Sundance, NM

Sundance is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in McKinley County, New Mexico, United States. The 2020 census counted 760 residents. The community is in the western part of the county and is bordered to the northwest by Gallup, the county seat, to the northeast by Church Rock, and to the east by federal land associated with Fort Wingate. Interstate 40 passes through the northernmost part of Sundance, with the closest access from Exit 26, 2 miles to the west in Gallup. Sundance is in Gallup-McKinley County Public Schools. Taken together, these details give a newcomer a usable picture of Sundance, where its history, geography, and current gathering places meet. For Sundance, the memorable detail is the way older history and current gathering places share one local map. Sundance includes the community slopes north toward the valley of the Puerco River.