31. Museum Of Spanish Colonial Arts
City: Santa Fe, NM
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (505) 982-2226
Address: 750 Camino Lejo
Description: Dedicated to preserving and promoting the Spanish influence on New Mexico’s art, the Museum of Spanish Colonial Arts showcases about 3,000 artifacts from the collection of the Spanish Colonial Arts Society. See our The Arts chapter for more information.
City: Santa Fe, NM
Category: Tours & Attractions
Address: 113 Lincoln Ave.
City: Santa Fe, NM
Category: Tours & Attractions
Address: 105 East Palace Ave.
34. The Cross Of The Martyrs And Commemorative Walkway
City: Santa Fe, NM
Category: Tours & Attractions
Description: You feel like you’re walking through history as you climb the winding brick path that takes you to the Cross of the Martyrs. Informative plaques line the walkway, summarizing the city’s early history and the events that led to the deaths of the Franciscan missionaries who are commemorated by a 20-foot white metal cross at the path’s end. From the top of the hill, you get a lovely view of the city and a panorama of the Sangre de Cristo, Jémez, and Sandía mountains—a reward for your energetic effort. Santa Fe’s annual Fiesta ends with a candlelight procession from the cathedral to the cross. And on Christmas Eve, bright bonfires, or luminarias, surround it. There are no official visiting hours, and no fees are charged.
City: Santa Fe, NM
Category: Tours & Attractions
Address: 1213 Mercantile, Suite A
City: Santa Fe, NM
Category: Tours & Attractions
Address: 1607 Paseo de Peralta, Suite A
City: Santa Fe, NM
Category: Tours & Attractions
Address: 410 South Guadalupe St.
City: Santa Fe, NM
Category: Tours & Attractions
39. Access/Aboot About Santa Fe
City: Santa Fe, NM
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (505) 988-2774
Address: 624 Galisteo St., No. 32
Description: This company offers walking tours with guides who are archaeologists, artists, and anthropologists. In addition to the popular Santa Fe orientation tour, the company offers ghost and mystery walks, literary walking tours, artist and gallery tours, and a full range of half- and full-day adventures throughout New Mexico. The basic historic walking tour is a 2¼-hour stroll to Santa Fe’s significant sites. Tours leave daily at 9:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. from the El Dorado Hotel lobby and 9:45 a.m. Saturday and Monday from La Posada Resort and Spa. Children under age six go along free if accompanied by an adult. You can park in city lots across the street from the hotels.
City: Santa Fe, NM
Category: Tours & Attractions
Address: 211 Old Santa Fe Trail at the Inn at Lor
41. Art Walking Tours
City: Santa Fe, NM
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (505) 476-5041
Address: 107 West Palace Ave.
Description: Every Monday at 10 a.m. in the summer, you can join trained docents on an interactive walking tour of downtown Santa Fe. Learn about Santa Fe’s outdoor sculptures, Frederico Vigil’s mural in the County Courthouse, WPA murals in the Federal Building, and the art collection at La Fonda Hotel. Children aged 18 years and under are free. Proceeds support the Museum of Fine Arts Library and Education Department. Tour participants meet at the Museum of Fine Arts Shop steps.
42. Great Southwest Adventures
City: Santa Fe, NM
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (505) 455-2700
Description: Great Southwest Adventures specializes in customized, small group tours of Santa Fe, Taos, Los Alamos, Abiquiú, Bandelier National Monument, Pecos National Historical Park, and other areas of northern New Mexico. Co-owner Tom Ribe grew up here and is the author of a unique guidebook focusing on the Los Alamos area. He brings a strong outdoors and cultural focus to his tours. In addition to the Opera, Balloon Fiesta, Pueblo dances, and other special-event tours, clients can choose from a variety of special tours providing a close-up look at the area’s geology, anthropology, and archaeology. All guides have strong backgrounds in these topics. Custom backpacking and cross-country ski tours are a specialty.
City: Santa Fe, NM
Category: Tours & Attractions
Address: 608 E. Palace
44. Palace Walks History Tours
City: Santa Fe, NM
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (505) 476-5100
Address: 105 East Palace Ave.
Description: During the summer and fall, the Palace of the Governors hosts tours of historic downtown Santa Fe. Each walk is personalized by a specially trained guide and reflects his/her particular area of interest. The walk covers history beginning in the 17th century and ending with current assessment of contemporary life in Santa Fe. The tour takes about 1¾ hours and departs from the Blue Gate on Lincoln Avenue at 10:15 a.m., Monday through Saturday, April through October. Accompanied children younger than age 17 are free. All proceeds benefit the museum.
45. Rojo Tours
City: Santa Fe, NM
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (505) 474-8333
Address: 2408 Calle Bella
Description: Isabelle Rojo arranges customized tours for groups and individuals and packages for convention and meeting planners that range from visits to private artist studios, O’Keeffe Country, Chaco Canyon, Taos Pueblo, and Pueblo dances to gallery tours, cooking classes, and western barbecues.