Hi, I will be out in Santa Fe for a week in august and was wondering if anyone has any suggestions/info on places to get in some good runs or good trails in the area. I am heading out from Pennsylvania to visit my sister. Looking to get in around 80 miles in during the week, any help is appriciated, thanks -Matthew
There are some great, great, long overdue new dirt trails that opened up on the left hand side of Artist Road (not Bishop's Lodge Road), about 4 miles above Santa Fe, heading toward the ski resort. This is at nearly 8,000 feet and most folks go in the morning. They're rolling, w/ lots of mountain bikers and runners, and nice looking lasses. It is a half-mile down from the 10,000 Waves hot tub and Zen Center if interested, a great place to hang out for the evening after a hard run.
Also go an hour north along Hwy. 84 for the best running in New Mexico at the Ghost Ranch Conference Center, just past the village of Abiquiu between the 224 and 225 mile markers on the Hwy (84). With 21,000 acres of pristine red clay trails along some sweeping mesas, vast landscape, wild skies, juniper and pinon, etc., the place (at 6,500') is just awesome. If you're only doing a run, it's OK to hop or go around the fences, they're mainly to keep the gawking tourists out. I worked there for a couple of years. They filmed "City Slickers" there too.
Best eats in Santa Fe: Diego's, Tomasito's, Guadelupe's, Gabriel's, The Shed (for breakfast). In Espanola, go to El Paragua (#1 in country) or Los Arcos for the best food in the state. Check out Rancho Chimayo in Chimayo for a meal as well as an event.
E-mail me if you want to run with Ron Roybal, ex-CU runner now living in nearby Pojoaque Pueblo.
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boxcar racer wrote:
Hi, I will be out in Santa Fe for a week in august and was wondering if anyone has any suggestions/info on places to get in some good runs or good trails in the area. I am heading out from Pennsylvania to visit my sister. Looking to get in around 80 miles in during the week, any help is appriciated, thanks -Matthew
Try the bird sanctuary. Lots of wildlife.
4:59 wrote:
boxcar racer wrote:
Hi, I will be out in Santa Fe for a week in august and was wondering if anyone has any suggestions/info on places to get in some good runs or good trails in the area. I am heading out from Pennsylvania to visit my sister. Looking to get in around 80 miles in during the week, any help is appriciated, thanks -Matthew
Try the bird sanctuary. Lots of wildlife.
You do know that you are replying to a 19 year old post, right?
Won't be much help, as it has been a few years & I cannot recall names/locations. But I drove up to 10,000 ft altitude and had some great trail runs while there.
Living in the ancient past wrote:
You do know that you are replying to a 19 year old post, right?
....Uh, yea.... I knew that....
It was fun to see this post from Roybal on this thread. It brought back memories of this old LRC article.
Santa Fe is a nice spot to run. When I am there I like to run down by the river out by Caja del Rio.
Living in the ancient past wrote:
4:59 wrote:
Try the bird sanctuary. Lots of wildlife.
You do know that you are replying to a 19 year old post, right?
Hopefully it's still a sweet place to go run.
ccrryypptt wrote:
Won't be much help, as it has been a few years & I cannot recall names/locations. But I drove up to 10,000 ft altitude and had some great trail runs while there.
Won’t be much help, as I took some shtcoins and shove em way up my rectum on the way up there. I’m hoping to get rich in 3 months and retire early so I can buy a mansion at 10,000 feet altitude.
Living in the ancient past wrote:
4:59 wrote:
Try the bird sanctuary. Lots of wildlife.
You do know that you are replying to a 19 year old post, right?
Uhh yeah. I didn't want to leave him hanging.