Road Trips
During your Santa Fe stay, take some time to discover the magnificent landscape and diverse cultures surrounding the city. The following Day Trips and Indian Pueblos reveal sights and scenery in northern New Mexico that will take your breath away.
Visit ancient Indian ruins and traditional pueblos, high mountain towns and sleepy valley villages, 19th-century mining areas and the majestic red rock country captured on canvas by Georgia O'Keeffe, one of America's greatest painters. See the collapsed crater of a volcano that erupted a million years ago and the living legacy of Los Alamos, where scientists from around the world secretly created the first atomic bomb during World II's Manhattan Project. Marvel at Taos Pueblo's multi-storied architecture built more than a thousand years ago and the Victorian architectural gems of the "other" Las Vegas.
You'll be following in the footsteps of Pueblo ancestors, Spanish settlers, fur trappers, mountain men and American pioneers as you explore these fascinating scenic roads and byways near Santa Fe, in the heart of northern New Mexico.
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Day Trips
This is only a small slice of what there is to see and do in northern New Mexico. For more information and a way to order a state Vacation Planner check the New Mexico Department of Tourism site.
Click on our Tours section for a comprehensive list of companies leading guided tours in Santa Fe and its surroundings.
Explore the links below to learn more about sites worth visiting near Santa Fe.
