Start from 68 curated places around Santa Fe, NM, then choose the recommendations that fit your guests.
Restaurants & cafés
La Boca
Tiny Spanish small-plates room just off the Plaza — patatas bravas, jamón, a famous filet with salted-caramel sauce, and a list that runs deep on sherry. Twenty-four seats; not a casual walk-in.
Cafe Pasqual's
40-year Santa Fe institution two blocks off the Plaza — papel picado on the ceiling, folk-art walls, and a brunch menu that runs from huevos motuleños to chorizo burritos. The morning everyone takes a visitor to.
Trails & outdoors
Aspen Vista Trail
12.1-mile out-and-back up the back of the Sangres from Hyde Park Road — starts at 9,900 feet and reaches 12,000 feet. The fall-foliage hike in New Mexico (last two weeks of September).
Winsor Trail
Trail through the Pecos Wilderness starting at Ski Santa Fe — climbs through spruce and aspen, crosses creeks, and is the main artery for backpacks deeper into the range. Day-hike a chunk or go big.
Things to do
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
The world's largest public collection of Georgia O'Keeffe's work — 3,000+ paintings, drawings, and sculptures plus her archives. One-room-at-a-time pace; allow two hours and budget the timed entry.
New Mexico Museum of Art
1917 Pueblo Revival landmark facing the Plaza — strong holdings of New Mexico modernists, Taos Society of Artists, and contemporary regional work. The building itself is the architectural anchor of the Plaza.
Landmarks & sights
Santa Fe Plaza
1610 Spanish colonial plaza at the heart of downtown — four-block central park ringed by the Palace of the Governors, the Cathedral, La Fonda hotel, and the Native artisans selling under the Palace portal. The oldest continuously-used public space in the United States.
Palace of the Governors
1610 adobe palace facing the Plaza — the oldest continuously-occupied public building in the U.S. Today houses the New Mexico History Museum, plus the Native artisans selling under its portal for nearly a century.