


Trail Work in 2022
Santa Fe Conservation Trust and volunteers with the Trails Alliance of Santa Fe led 42 work days in 2022, including 16 in La Tierra Trails, 11 in Dale Ball Trails and Dorothy Stewart Trail, 11 in SFCT’s Conservation Homestead in the Galisteo Basin, three in The...
Bike-to-School Week, May 3-5, 2022
Bike-to-School Week in Santa Fe spanned three days of biking to school – the “Bike Train – Arroyo Route” on Tuesday May 3, National Bike-to-School Day events at various schools on Wed., May 4, and the multi-school “Bike Train –...
Trail Work in 2021
It was a busy year of trail work for the Santa Fe Conservation Trust and our partners with the Trails Alliance of Santa Fe, the Santa Fe Fat Tire Society, New Mexico Volunteers for the Outdoors, the Boy Scouts of America, and other volunteers. Starting under a...
International Walk-to-School Day, Oct. 6, 2021
SFCT worked with several local schools to promote International Walk-to-School Day on Oct. 6, 2021. The main event was a procession from the Santa Fe Public Library’s South Side Branch up the Arroyo Chamiso Trail in Tierra Contenta to Cesar Chavez Elementary...
Volunteer Work on Dorothy Stewart Trail and Atalaya Trail, Fall 2020
In September and October, we turned our attention to the City’s Dorothy Stewart Trail and Santa Fe National Forest’s Atalaya Trail, for which we recently renewed our adoption. Although we hadn’t worked on either for several years, these trails were...
Trail Work on the La Tierra Chili Line, Fall 2020
Thanks to volunteers from Journey Montessori School and a representative of Santa Fe Fat Tire Society, we got a jump on protecting the old rail bed and preparing it for the La Tierra Chili Line Trail in September and October. Activities included putting up temporary...
La Tierra Chili Line Trail
The La Tierra Chili Line Trail is finally happening! We have received clearance from the City’s Archaeological Review Committee to develop a 1/4-mile rail-to-trail on the historic “Denver & Rio Grande Railroad” railbed in La Tierra Trails, along...
Volunteer Work on Sun Mountain Trail
Volunteers returned to Sun Mountain Trail for the first time in nearly three years on Sept. 16, 2020. Once again we focused on “fall-line” sections of the lower part of the trail – de-berming, clearing out drainage areas that we had worked on...