All Trails Posts

The Magical History Cruise on May 20, 2017, was the second annual running of a "Community Cruise" bicycle ride offered as part of the Outside Bike and Brew festival.   Like the 2016 edition, this year's ride focused on historic transportation alignments that continue...

On Tuesday May 16, students and families from Aspen Community Magnet School and Gonzales Community School converged on bicycle or on foot at the new trail connection linking the River Trail in Alto Park to the school crossing of Alto St. at La Madera St.  The event,...

This year's edition of the "River and Acequia Cruise" served to kick off activities for "Bike-to-Work" week on Sat., May 13, and marked the beginning of the tenth year of "Community Cruises"! As usual, this slow bike ride served to help Santa Feans and their guests...

                  On May 30, the Trails Program Manager met with four volunteers to resume trail maintenance work on the Atalaya Trail, which we adopted on behalf of the Santa Fe National Forest in 2014.  Thanks to...

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...

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 that has been mapped and...

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,...

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 "nicks" or "grade...

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, before heading...

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...