Santa Fe Highlights

Santa Fe Highlights Santa Fe in Winter: A Local Guide to Skiing, Staying, and Spending Time in Town We don’t mean to skip right past autumn with this post, as it is a lovely time of year in Santa Fe, and after a couple of weeks of rain, the weather has been absolutely perfect the past week. But it’s planning time for those thinking about visiting us this winter, so please forgive the […]
Santa Fe Highlights From Seed to State Symbol: The History of Chile in New Mexico In late summer and early fall, there are few surer signs of the season in New Mexico than the smell of green chile roasting. You find it outside grocery stores, at farmers markets, along roadsides and drifting through neighborhoods as people bring home sacks of freshly harvested chile. That aroma is so closely associated with […]
Santa Fe Highlights Fiesta de Santa Fe: Santa Fe’s Oldest Celebration Every September, the center of Santa Fe changes gears for Fiesta de Santa Fe, with music, food, markets, religious observances, parades and generations of local tradition converging around the Plaza. Dating to 1712, Fiesta is one of the oldest community celebrations in the country—and while some of its history is complicated, it remains an important […]
Santa Fe Highlights Meet Zozobra: The Story Behind Santa Fe’s Old Man Gloom Every city has its traditions. Santa Fe has one where tens of thousands of people gather in a field and yell “BURN HIM!” at a 50-foot-tall groaning marionette. Welcome to Zozobra. If you’re new to Santa Fe—or visiting over Labor Day weekend—the Burning of Zozobra can require a little explaining. Old Man Gloom, as he’s […]
Santa Fe Highlights 2026 Haciendas Parade of Homes: A Look Back at This Year’s Winners Another Haciendas: A Parade of Homes is in the books, and after spending a good portion of the past two weekends hosting at one of this year’s entries, we got to experience the Parade a little differently this time around. The annual Santa Fe Parade of Homes is one of our favorite opportunities to see […]
Santa Fe Highlights Things to do in Santa Fe: Art Santa Fe 2026 This weekend, Santa Fe does what it does better than almost anywhere else in the country — it puts art front and center. Art Santa Fe returns July 9–11, presented by the Redwood Art Group, and it’s the city’s only contemporary fine art fair of its kind. We’re talking 85+ galleries and emerging artists under […]
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