Santa Fe Things to Do

🎬 2026 Dates: October 14-19 📍 Location: Venues across Downtown Santa Fe 🎟 Admission: Passes & single tickets via Eventive 🏡 Lodging: Stay Walking Distance to the Plaza Santa Fe International Film Festival 2026: Dates, Venues & Where to Stay For one week every October, the marquees along downtown Santa Fe light up and the sidewalks fill with filmmakers, critics, and cinephiles trading opinions on the last screening as they...

📅 2026 Dates: October 10-12 (Weekend + Monday) 📍 Location: Santa Fe Plaza, Downtown Santa Fe 🎟 Admission: Free and open to the public 🏡 Lodging: Stay Steps from the Plaza Santa Fe Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2026: Full Schedule, Powwow Guide & Where to Stay The drums start early on the Santa Fe Plaza, a steady heartbeat under the cottonwoods that’s carried this ground for centuries longer than the city...

💀 2026 Dates: October 30-31 📍 Location: Historic Santa Fe Plaza 💰 Admission: Free, all events open to the public 🏡 Lodging: Stay Walking Distance to the Plaza Santa Fe Día de los Muertos 2026: Your Complete Guide to Lodging & Celebrating the Day of the Dead Picture this: the historic Santa Fe Plaza transforms into a glowing tapestry of marigold petals and flickering candles, while the haunting beauty of...

📅 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...

Picture this: the scent of fresh pancakes wafting through the historic Plaza as mariachi music mingles with patriotic melodies, while the high desert sun casts a golden glow over adobe buildings draped in red, white, and blue. Santa Fe’s 4th of July celebration isn’t just another Independence Day; it’s a magical fusion of American tradition and Southwest charm that creates memories your family will treasure for generations. We’ve spent years...

📅 2026 Dates: July 25 & 26, 2026 📍 Location: Lincoln Avenue, Santa Fe Plaza 🎟 Admission: Free to Attend 🏡 Lodging: Browse Santa Fe Rentals Santa Fe Contemporary Hispanic Market 2026: Your Complete Visitor’s Guide Lincoln Avenue hums with possibility on a July morning in Santa Fe. White-tented booths stretch north from the Plaza, each one a window into a living, breathing artistic tradition — not centuries old, but...

📅 Spanish Market 2026: July 25 & 26, 2026 📍 Location: Historic Santa Fe Plaza 🎟 Admission: Free to Attend 🏡 Lodging: Browse Santa Fe Rentals The scent of piñon mingles with the smell of fresh tortillas. Carved wooden saints line booth after booth, their painted eyes calm and ancient. An artist at the corner table hammers a tin frame with the same technique her grandmother taught her — the...

📅 Spring Festival: June 13 & 14, 2026 📍 Venue: El Rancho de Las Golondrinas, Santa Fe, NM 🎟 Tickets: $8–$10 | Kids 12 & under Free 🏡 Lodging: Browse Santa Fe Rentals The smell of bread baking in a centuries-old adobe horno drifts across the high desert air. Wool dyers work beside an acequia, their hands stained with indigo and chamisa. On the open field beyond, the drums of...

📅 Pride on the Plaza: Late June 2026 📍 Main Venue: Historic Santa Fe Plaza 🎟 Main Event: Free to Attend 🏡 Lodging: Browse Santa Fe Rentals Rainbow flags snap in the high-desert breeze. The 400-year-old adobe walls of the Santa Fe Plaza glow gold in the June light. Thousands of people — Indigenous, Hispanic, Anglo, young, old, travelers from across the Southwest — are here together, and the energy...