I have several extra days tacked onto a work trip to Santa Fe in March, and I'm looking for advice to what to do with them. We've been to Santa Fe several times and enjoy it, but we're interested in recommendations on where else to go after Santa Fe.
I am traveling with my SO. We have Saturday/Sunday/Monday completely free and fly out of ABQ midday on Tuesday. We really enjoy hiking and scenic road trips, so I'd probably go in this outdoors direction if given good recommendations. (No camping this trip, and we don't ski.) That said, we also enjoy more urban trips with good (vegetarian) food, art, museums, beer/cocktails, etc. and our low-planning fallback option right now is exploring Albuquerque based entirely on a green chile waffle we ate there once.
Where should we go and what should we do with those extra 3.5 days?
We're both pretty stressed out lately, so options that limit the temptation to "just work a little bit from a coffee shop this morning" are a plus.
On previous NM trips, the non-food highlights for us were Tsankawi, Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks, Abiquiú, and Bandelier. Previous Santa Fe highlights for general "what we like" context: 10,000 Waves, allll the food, Meow Wolf.
We got a recommendation for Chaco Canyon - is it worth it, and are there other things in that general direction to occupy a few days?
If we parked ourselves in Albuquerque, are there spectacular day hikes nearby? What else is interesting in Albuquerque?
Is Taos interesting in the winter for non-skiiers who are not very woo-inclined? (I like art but more in a contemporary art museum way than a "hope a random gallery is to my taste" way.)
What other spectacular nature/day hikes are worth framing a road trip or long weekend in March around?
(My main goal here is figuring out what to do with the rest of our trip, but I'll happily accept additional misc. suggestions for things to do in Santa Fe during the week as well.) |
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