Caja del Rio Gravel Grinder
The Caja del Rio Gravel Grinder was a cycling event on May 19 encompassing thirty miles of dirt roads and trails, as well as some paved roads and urban trails, to take Bike and Brew Festival participants from the Santa Fe Railyard out to the Caja del Rio unit of the...
Bike Route 66 Ride with BTAC On-Road Subcommittee
On April 23, the Trails Program Manager took a tour of parts of “Bike Route 66” through Santa Fe with members of the Bicycle and Trails Advisory Committee’s “On-Road Subcommittee.” Bike Route 66 is a long-distance bicycle touring route...
Trail Work in Dale Ball Trails, April and May 2017
Dale Ball Central, April 12 On April 12 volunteers returned to Dale Ball Trails, Central Section, to put final touches on wayfinding arrow signage around Junctions 21, 22, and 23. With this work we are finished with wayfinding on city sections of Dale Ball Trails,...
Trail Work in La Tierra Trails
On April 5, the Trails Program Manager met with six volunteers to kick off the “regular season” for city trail work. We visited problem spots east and south of Junction 2, trying to help the trail drain off storm water by de-berming, putting in...
Community Cruise to Gail Ryba Trail on “Bike Day”
On the occasion of “Bike Day at the Capitol,” the Trails Program Manager met a dozen or so members of BikeABQ, as well as a handful of local cyclists, at South Capitol Station the morning of Feb. 25 to take a ride to the Gail Ryba Trail and underpass,...
Removing Fallen Trees near Cerro Gordo Trailhead, Jan. 25
The morning of Jan. 25, super-volunteer Alan Karp came by to let us know that three sizable trees had been blown over and were threatening to fall onto the trail connecting Cerro Gordo trailhead with Upper Canyon Rd. One e-mail to a handful of certified sawyer...
A gift to the community
In December 2016, a very generous donor gave us 2.4 acres of land along the Santa Fe River. In effect, this generous gift to the SFCT was a huge gift to the community, as we will remove all the development rights from this property to preserve it as open space...
Completing Dale Ball Wayfinding Signage, Nov. – Dec.
Four work days in November and one more in December were dedicated to finishing off the supplemental arrow signs that inform City trail users which junction lies ahead. Thanks go to the City Parks Dept. as well as the Trails Alliance of Santa Fe for supporting the...