Top Santa Fe Sightseeing Tours in 2026

This private walking tour lets you customize your itinerary through Santa Fe's historic core, choosing the landmarks and stories you want to explore. Design your route with a personal historian guide, tailored to your interests and preferred pace. Discover the rich 400-year blend of Native American, Spanish colonial, and Mexican heritage while exploring local highlights in comfort. • Select your route: Choose historic landmarks across Santa Fe’s cultural center. • Tailor your history: Explore colonial archives or public square stories. • Choose your chapel: Admire Romanesque Revival architecture or a unique engineering marvel. • Set your pace: Enjoy a flexible, private itinerary suited to your group. Please note: The final route is fully flexible, and the exact order of stops or locations visited will vary based on the custom choices you make on the day of the tour.

This private walking tour reveals Santa Fe’s cultural and historic heritage. You will explore Old Town shaped by ancient traditions and architectural legacy. Santa Fe Plaza reflects centuries of community life and cultural exchange. The New Mexico History Museum shares stories of regional transformation and identity. What stories are preserved within Santa Fe’s artistic heritage? Canyon Road presents a historic district filled with galleries and cultural expression. Loretto Chapel holds a mysterious staircase linked to local legend. Adobe architecture reflects centuries of civilization and design. The route follows a relaxed pace with a focus on comfort and cultural depth. You will experience a city older than the United States through inspiring and meaningful moments. Please note: The program and attractions may vary based on booking date/time and crowd conditions, ensuring each visit is a unique experience.

Welcome to Santa Fe, the oldest capital city in the U.S. and a place where history, art, architecture, and culture blend in the most fascinating ways! This engaging and interactive walking tour is the perfect way to explore the heart of the city. You won’t just hear about Santa Fe’s history—you’ll experience it. As you stroll through picturesque courtyards and past iconic landmarks, you’ll uncover the stories behind the city’s cultural heritage. Step inside unique galleries, chat with locals, and discover firsthand what makes Santa Fe "the City Different." By the end of the tour, you’ll feel like a Santa Fe insider! - Learn about local history and culture for the quintessential Santa Fe experience - Discover the incredible art Santa Fe is known for - See Santa Fe's most iconic architectural landmarks, such as the St. Francis Cathedral, the Palace of the Governors, and the New Mexico Museum of Art - Taste beautifully hand-painted chocolate truffles

Discover Santa Fe’s must-try bites—and learn about the city’s history and culture—on this decadent walking tour. Meet your guide before lunch at Santa Fe Plaza, and come ready with an appetite: you’ll visit three local eateries, where you can enjoy everything from spicy New Mexican fare to tasty local chocolates. As you go, you’ll also see landmarks like the New Mexico State Capitol, Palace of the Governors, and more.

Discover Santa Fe’s culinary traditions on a private 2-hour tour through local specialty food shops and markets. Sample a variety of local specialties while your guide shares stories about the ingredients, people, and traditions that have shaped the city’s distinctive food culture. Meet local purveyors, discover unique flavors, and learn how Santa Fe’s culinary traditions connect to its history and culture. The experience also includes a visit to the Santa Fe School of Cooking. With a relaxed pace and plenty of time for questions and conversation, this private tour offers a personal way to experience Santa Fe through its local flavors and stories.

Combine white-water rafting with wine tasting on this small-group tour from Santa Fe. You'll spend your morning taking a thrilling rafting ride on one of the most popular sections of the Rio Grande. In the afternoon, you’ll head out to lunch, followed by wine tastings at Vivac, La Chiripada, and Black Mesa wineries.

Madrid produced the coal that both built the Bomb and inspired Walt Disney. Abandoned as a ghost town for many years, it was reborn as a thriving artistic community. The Oral History Tour lets you hear Madrid’s stories, as told by the people who lived them. Using smartphone technology, it plays the audio automatically, at exactly the right time and place. All dimensions of Madrid’s peculiar, multifaceted story are explored: from an eyewitness account of union-busting violence, to that time the brand-new fire engine accidentally burned down the firehouse. The Oral History Tour was distilled from seventy hours of interviews, and endures as a preserved collective memory of this unique New Mexican treasure. Of this two-hour tour, The Santa Fe Reporter wrote, “It’s a deep dive into the fascinating history of the little town. You’ll find interviews with locals, some of whom have lived in Madrid their whole lives, and a narrator with a soothing voice ... it works exceedingly well.”

Experience the haunted history of Madrid, New Mexico, on this self-guided audio tour. Once a thriving coal-mining town, Madrid is now an iconoclastic artistic village, but its past lingers in the form of ghostly residents. Discover tales of the frightened red-headed girl seen in a basement, the predatory spirit known as The Croucher, and the infamous "Death Stairs" at the town's most haunted house. Visit eerie hotspots like the Mine Shaft Tavern, where good, bad, and pure evil linger, and Java Junction, where the upstairs is always “occupied.” Learn why the Engine House Theater is the heart of the town’s supernatural disturbances. As you explore, you’ll also encounter landmarks like the historic general store, the Coal Miners Museum, and local galleries showcasing Madrid’s artistic revival. Immerse yourself in the ghostly tales and eerie encounters at the very locations where they happened, and decide for yourself what to believe about Madrid's haunting history.

Take a full-day Rio Grande rafting adventure ideal for families and first-time rafters. Float through the Lower Gorge’s scenic Orilla Verde, where you’ll enjoy a delicious hot fajita lunch along the riverbanks. Experience the river’s broad canyon and rich habitat, where you can watch for wildlife like mule deer and birds of prey. Then, enjoy a thrilling encounter with whitewater during a 6-mile (9.6 kilometer) section of class 2-3 rapids.

Discover the Santa Fe you won't find on any other tour, through three unforgettable experiences which you can choose from. The Indigenous History of Santa Fe takes you beyond the plaza to the Pueblo communities whose presence predates the city by centuries. Hear the stories and perspectives too often left out of the standard narrative. The Women Who Built Santa Fe centers the figures whose work shaped and sustained this city, yet rarely make it into guidebooks. Walk the same streets, but hear a different story about who truly made Santa Fe what it is. The Ghost History Tour uncovers the haunting side of the city. Explore the eerie legends, restless spirits, and dark chapters hidden beneath Santa Fe's beautiful surface. Every 90-minute tour is intimate, walkable, and pay-what-you-can, because this history should be accessible to everyone. Your storytellers don't just recite dates, they share connection and context that makes the past come alive in ways guidebooks never capture.