Santa Fe Conservation Trust organized 42 outings with volunteers in 2024 to scope out, design, build and, most frequently, maintain public trails. Typically meeting on Wednesday mornings, volunteers totalled over 660 hours worked, including 475 hours on City-owned trails and 100 hours on County-owned trails.
In addition to La Tierra and Dale Ball Trails, we also worked on the Dorothy Stewart Trail, the Sun Mountain Trail, the Acequia Trail in Hermanos Rodriguez Park, The Nature Conservancy’s Santa Fe Canyon Preserve accessible loop trail, and natural-surface trails in Oshara Village under our GUSTO initiative to improve natural-surface trail connectivity throughout the Santa Fe area.
Click on any photo below for a better view of our work in 2024.
La Tierra Trails, including scoping out potential collaborations with Santa Fe Fat Tire Society and completing the La Tierra Chili Line Trail: Work Days in April and August through December
Dale Ball Trails and Dorothy Stewart Trail: April through October
North Section
Central Section
South Section, including Dorothy Stewart and County Trails
Acequia Trail, Hermanos Rodriguez Park, May 2024. A collaboration with the City and Homewise to provide a way to link the Acequia Trail to Rufina St., which in turn connect downtown to the South Side.
Santa Fe Canyon Preserve, May 2024
Sun Mountain Trail, July 2024
Oshara Village – GUSTO Collaboration, November 2024, including a dirt rail-to-trail on the abandoned rail bed of the NM Central Railroad (1903-29)
Riverhaven Footbridge – December 2024. Santa Fe Fat Tire Society provided the technical know-how, financial support, sweat equity, and leadership to install a wonderful footbridge across the Santa Fe River on our “Riverhaven” property, helping trail users get between the river and Upper Canyon Rd.
