Home to the world's only duck races, held here each August. At the crest of the Cookes and Florida Mountain Ranges, Deming is the stop for the resort areas to the north around Silver City. The Deming Luna Mimbres museum holds artifacts of the thousand-year-old Mimbres Indian civilization and more recent relics of the Old West. South of town is Rock Hound State Park, famed for its rock formations.

Amtrak trains stop at the former Southern Pacific station in Deming, but the station itself is unstaffed and not open for use by Amtrak passengers. Passengers may wait by depot, or in their cars. A pay telephone is available on the outside of the station.