Festivals

📅 2026 Dates: October 3–11 (9 days) 📍 Location: Balloon Fiesta Park, Albuquerque 🎟 Admission: From $20/session 🏡 Lodging: Basecamp in Santa Fe Instead Should You Stay in Santa Fe for the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta? Your Honest 2026 Guide Before sunrise, the field at Balloon Fiesta Park is already loud: propane burners roaring, envelopes unfurling across the grass in every color imaginable, a crowd of thousands murmuring in the cold...

📅 2026 Date: Friday, September 4, 2026 📍 Location: Fort Marcy Park, Santa Fe 🎟 Tickets: From $30 (kids 10 & under free) 🏡 Lodging: Stay Walking Distance to the Burn The Burning of Zozobra 2026: Santa Fe’s Complete Guide to the 102nd Old Man Gloom The sun drops behind the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, and fifty feet of white cloth and chicken wire stirs to life above Fort Marcy...

🌎 Earth Day 2026  ·  April 25  ·  Free Event Santa Fe Earth Day 2026: Events, Eco-Adventures & the Perfect Spring Weekend A free festival at Railyard Park, the Farmers Market next door, native plant hikes, and a city that has genuinely earned Earth Day. Here’s everything you need to celebrate it right — and where to stay. 🌱 Free Railyard Park Festival — April 25 🛒 Farmers Market Same...

🛣️ Route 66 Centennial 2026 Santa Fe and Route 66: The Original Mother Road Detour Worth Every Mile History, hairpin turns, political drama, and a city that has been welcoming road trippers since 1926. Here’s everything you need to plan your Santa Fe stop on the Mother Road. 🗺️ Amarillo to Santa Fe Routing 🏛️ Historic 1926 Alignment Guide 🏡 Where to Stay on the Mother Road Picture this: you’ve...

📅 SWAIA Fashion Week: May 8–9, 2026 📍 Venue: Eldorado Hotel & Spa, Santa Fe 🎟 Tickets: Free – Ticketed Gala 🏡 Lodging: Browse Santa Fe Rentals Long before Paris had a runway, Indigenous artisans were stitching ancestral wisdom into every fiber. Santa Fe has always known this. And now, the world is catching up. SWAIA Native Fashion Week in Santa Fe, NM. Photo courtesy of SWAIA. If you have...

The 2026 Sundance Film Festival is set to take place in person on January 22 – February 1, 2026. There are Sundance Film Festival theater locations all across Park City. The Festival is a huge, decentralized event. There are hidden hotspots all over town. With so many venues, it helps to have a reliable Sundance Film Festival theater map. Feel free to borrow ours! Read on to find every theater in town,...

Opening day at Park City Mountain Resort Silver Sky Nights Sundance Film Festival Ice Castles FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup Annual Spring Gruv Pond Skimming (info coming soon) Annual Torchlight Parade Snowfest Annual Santa Comes Down Town Lift On The Mountain Opening Day at Park City Mountain Resort Opening Day, November 16, 2022 Opening day at the resorts is far and away the most anticipated date on the calendar. Park...

Discover the best annual Santa Fe summer events for a season of markets, festivals, and fiestas. Santa Fe summer events explore a rich heritage of Southwest culture. From acclaimed markets to hallowed local traditions, there is something fun to discover almost every weekend during a summer stay in The City Different. These are our picks for “must see” Santa Fe summer events. You won’t want to miss a single one....

With the Sundance Film Festival fast approaching, local expertise becomes an invaluable tool in the festival-goer survival kit. Madeline Knauer is a college student and Park City native who grew up attending films and being as much a part of the festival as possible. She attended Park City High School, where students spend the better part of the festival’s 10-day run in the heart of the action. Teachers at the...