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Santa Fe Historic Downtown Smart Phone Audio App Self Guided GPS Walking Tour

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Santa Fe, USA
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Booked 5+ times last week!
  • 1 hour to 1 hour 15 minutes (approx.)
  • Mobile ticket
  • Offered in: English

Why travelers loved this

4.3
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· Lisa_F ·
Oct 2025
Loved the authentic voice. Great information! Sometimes hard to follow with four people. Probably should have gotten to and split the earphones! A lot of great history about Santa Fe!
· Robert_C ·
Oct 2025
Wonderful 2-2 hour tour of the highlights of Santa Fe. Easy to follow narration. You can easily stop and explore at your own pace. Learned so much!

Overview

The historic Santa Fe Plaza and downtown area has a 400-year old history filled with the lore and legends of conquistadors, scientists, artists, outlaws, and Pueblo peoples. Access this history on your phone through our GPS-enabled walking tour. Start and stop on your own schedule—access to the tour never expires. Learn about the annual Zozobra celebration, what "Christmas-style" means, and where to find the oldest church in the United States.
  • Go at your own pace and schedule
  • Professional narration, production, and music brings 400 years of history to life
  • Lifetime access to tour
  • Learn fascinating aspects of Santa Fe history, lore, and culture

What's Included

  • Self Guided Smart Phone Audio GPS Tour on our App
  • Learn the 400 plus year history of Santa Fe
  • See many of Santa Fe's historic sites
  • Go at your own pace and schedule
  • No entry tickets this tour is all outside
  • No human in person guide, this is all on our app

Meeting and Pickup

Meeting point

  • San Miguel Chapel
    401 Old Santa Fe Trail, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA

    This tour starts at the oldest Church in the USA, the San Miguel Chapel. You'll learn the story of Santa Fe's history and the time the Spanish ruled this land. Then we will follow the Santa Fe Trail to to downtown.

End point

  • Santa Fe Plaza
    63 Lincoln Ave, Santa Fe, NM 87501, USA

    Our tour ends in the heart of Santa Fe, the Santa Fe plaza. You'll learn it's history and be able to find plenty of great spots to shop and eat!

Operating hours

  • 08/10/2022 - 04/08/2027

    Monday - Sunday : 12:00 AM - 11:30 PM

Itinerary

1

San Miguel Chapel

5 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Loretto Chapel Museum (Pass By)

2

The Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi

5 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

3

109 East Palace

5 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Palace of the Governors (Pass By)

New Mexico Museum Of Art (Pass By)

4

Burro Alley

5 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (Pass By)

5

Santa Fe Community Gallery

5 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

6

City Hall Park

5 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

7

Santa Fe Plaza

5 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Additional Info

  • Confirmation will be received at time of booking
  • Not wheelchair accessible
  • Stroller accessible
  • Most travelers can participate
  • This is a private tour/activity. Only your group will participate
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Cancellation Policy

You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.

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Reviews

4.3
based on 113 reviews
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Bring AirPods and back-up charger!

Kara_P, Mar 2026
It’s very easy to use and great at knowing when you can pause and restart. GPS navigation is an added bonus. Be sure to bring a backup battery charger and a pair of AirPods so you can share.

This is a great way to...

Chip_D, Jan 2026
This is a great way to learn about Santa Fe at your pace. The directions were accurate and easy to follow. The narrator was easy to understand.

Don’t purchase it!

lisa_t, Nov 2025
The download never worked. Paid for this twice, still unable to open it. Don’t waste your money on this one.

It took me about 3 hours...

Joanne_M, Oct 2025
It took me about 3 hours but thankfully, there’s lots of places to sit. I wish I was better at navigating the tech piece but I managed! Very informative and I’m glad I did it, with one day in Santa Fe

Great authentic tour!!

Lisa_F, Oct 2025
Loved the authentic voice. Great information! Sometimes hard to follow with four people. Probably should have gotten to and split the earphones! A lot of great history about Santa Fe!

Wonderful 2-2 hour tour...

Robert_C, Oct 2025
Wonderful 2-2 hour tour of the highlights of Santa Fe. Easy to follow narration. You can easily stop and explore at your own pace. Learned so much!

Self guided Historic tour of Santa Fe

Cindy_J, Oct 2025
Easy to follow. Good overview of the city. Able to start and stop when we had another commitment. Enjoyed our time.

Great gem’

Denise_H, Sep 2025
Great way to explore the city at your own pace. Informative and insightful without time constraints.

Slow

Patricia_F, Jul 2025
This tour is good for people who like to move slowly. It was fairly informative. The app was a little confusing to navigate.

It is a great story...

Donna_S, May 2025
It is a great story telling and the narrator is charming We learned history we would have not been aware of had we not taken the tour

Self tour Audio guide of Santa Fe

Craig_W, May 2025
Nice slow pace. Can pause when you want to see something. Hit all the highlights. Great value for the $

Great value

Barbara_H, May 2025
Comprehensive and informative. Well done e your and excellent overview of Santa Fe. Thank you for everything.

A Grand Little Tour of Old Santa Fe

Steven_M, Apr 2025
I would highly recommend this walking tour. I was in Santa Fe for a couple of days and was absolutely taken by the place and the locals. Knowing the historical significance of the place, I was keen to learn more, and this curiosity led me to this walking tour. I was a solo traveller and the nature of the guided tour via the app and a pair of headphones suited me perfectly. Not only does the tour point out landmarks of significance, but I was also able to pause whenever a particular place took my fancy and allowed me to explore further. Afterwards, I could easily continue the tour from where I left off. The tech aspects were easy to use, the stories of the landmarks varied and interesting, and the cost was very affordable. Give yourself plenty of time to be able to take in the sites to explore and you won't be disappointed.

Great tour, easy to follow directions

Sam_S, Apr 2025
Great narrator, lots of interesting information, good directions, go at your own pace, enjoyable tour

This was actually super...

Summer_M, Apr 2025
This was actually super cool and allowed for a lot of flexibility. It was also full of information and history!

I liked being able to go...

Jane_F, Jan 2025
I liked being able to go at my own pace and not being in a large crowd. Interesting information provided

Great info. Nice...

Kelly_G, Dec 2024
Great info. Nice narration. It covered all the attractions I was interested in, and some attractions I didn't know about.

Great Value and a Fantastic Tour

Susan_L, Nov 2024
We really enjoyed the tour. The directions were easy to follow and the pace was perfect. We especially liked that we could pause the tour to go inside the various historic locations or take a coffee break. The tour provided lots of information and we highly recommend it.

History of San Miguel Chapel

Susan_K, Oct 2024
Memorable to me is the building of San Miguel Chapel, I.e. subduing of indigenous people in the name of religion and the crown.

Ok tour

JoanneL_G, Sep 2024
Would Iike in the instructions to state when you buy multiple tickets each persons needs to have an account on walk tour and can use the same experience code. Tour was only 1 hr. And only did the church’s. Sometimes narrator was hard to understand.

The Santa Fe GPS Walking...

Vickie_B, Sep 2024
The Santa Fe GPS Walking Tour was easy to navigate and very informative. I enjoyed the history and tour through the oldest church in the nation.

Santa Fe Self Guided Walking Tour A walk into History

Michael_W, Aug 2024
The self guided walking tour of Santa Fe was a walk back into the history of the city. The app made the walk interesting and informative. We learned about the people and places that shaped Santa Fe.

Great way to learn a bit about Santa Fe

Elizabeth_B, Jun 2024
Really enjoyed getting to go at our own pace. Directions were awesome. Sites and information provided were very interesting.

Santa Fe downtown tour

Jennifer_N, May 2024
Loved the stories as you were walking to the next place. Directions were a little off but it was an enjoyable experience!

Bad start. Excellent end.

Katharine_P, May 2024
Figuring out how it works. The apps were confusing.I really liked the narrator’s voice. Perfect for the story. Learned a lot. Loretto story of the staircase miracle was the best. Also being so close to Billy the Kid!

Fun & educational

Sheila_E, May 2024
My favorite was Loretto Chapel. I loved the narrator’s telling of the story. I chuckled several times during this tour. A few times I couldn’t keep up with his walking directions and had to repeat sections.

Beautiful city. So so app

David_R, Apr 2024
Beautiful City. And informative However, App only functioned on one phone after we paid for two.. directions need work towards the end of the tour.

Our first walkinbg tour & we would do it again.

Will_G, Apr 2024
This was out first time trying the Viator and Walkntour App. Honestly, it would be helpful if the directions had a large font and bold headline. It took us some time, to realise we needed to download the WalknTours app. The tour is really through the 2nd app and not through Viator, You are playing Viator. The tour was interesting, but. We parked at a location that we knew we could fit our vehicle. Basically, we were doing the tour in reverse. The app followed out location, but we always seemed to have to restart the app. It was not ideal but we made it work. There was some intersesting details provided. Again, this was our first time using the Walkntours app and through Viator, and we will know the process the next time.

Historical old town Sante Fe

Karen_H, Apr 2024
Very easy to follow, allowing for stops along the way just by pausing the narrative. Lots of interesting history that we would have missed on our own.

Best glimpse into the history of Santa Fe

Astrid_L, Apr 2024
The narrator was great and the info very interesting. You can pause or read the info at any time. I took the tour after 6pm and it was still great. Next time I’d do it between 10am and 5pm to be able to visit some of the sites during their opening hours.

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