Walk

Canyon Road at Palace Avenue

The last intersection where there is a high concentration of galleries, shops, and places to eat is at Canyon Road and Palace Avenue. You could take a left here and walk straight back to the plaza, or if you walk Palace Avenue from the plaza you will end here and this point becomes the beginning of the tour of Canyon Road.

View up Gonzales

The turn onto Gonzales is in a small curve and therefore can be easily missed. (Which is why this was photographed.) You can take Gonzales to get to the ski basin, Hyde State Park, a number of high end developments and some hiking trails.

The Santa Fe River is across the street. If you walked in that direction towards Alameda and turned left, a hundred yards or so is a city park, "Monsignor Patrick Smith Park".

Lilacs love our alkaline soil. The lilacs in this view are not the most advanced specimens I've seen, but...any size lilac smells nice. There are some really great lilacs around Santa Fe.

Canyon Road at Camino del Monte Sol

This intersection has a nice collection of places nearby. A few places you can eat outside, and more galleries of course.

On the other side of the white van is the public parking lot.

And another "Where's Waldo?"-type peek-a-boo mountain view.

Sign for the Artists Market

Looking down Paseo de Peralta you can see the Site Santa Fe building. To the left of that you can see parking and the little white tips of tents off in the distance...shady spots to find vegetables, fruits, and more. The intersection down there is where Guadalupe intersects with Cerrillos.

As you pan left you will see one of cool aspects of Santa Fe: murals on otherwise boring utility boxes and other places with enough space, like the electrical utility building across the street. Yeah murals! Boo graffiti.

Apple Art on Canyon Road at Delgado

How's about them apples? Not really sure about what that saying means, but...

If you stayed on East Alameda you can turn on Delgado and access Canyon Road from here. As you can see there's public parking down the street. I will point it out when we get there.

Museum Hill Plaza in February

This panorama has you situated in a the center of a circular plaza on Museum Hill in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Museum Hill is a collection of four museums: Museum of Spanish Colonial Art , Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, Museum of International Folk Art, and the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian.

From this spot on the plaza one can see both the Jemez mountain range and the snow covered ridges of the Sangre de Christo mountain range.

Tree Sculpture Bus Stop at Sunset

One of the neat things about Santa Fe is some of the art is useful, or to put it another way, the people holding the purse decided to let an artist do something special instead of just another ______________ in place. In this case it's a bus stop. This bus stop is on Airport Road.

Airport Road runs straight between 599 (Veteran's Memorial Highway) and Cerrillos Road.

As far as views go, this pano is mostly about the sunset illuminating and hiding things with its low angle and intense light. But the observant viewer will see the Sangre de Christo foothills and even the highest points of the Sandia Ridge in Albuquerque. You can locate them to the right of the bus stop, over the field, at the horizon.