What's New in Santa Fe?

This 412-year-old city just keeps evolving with a fiery source of creativity at its core. And 2022 has arrived with a lot of fun, ingenuity, and vision to behold and experience. Here’s wishing that you try a dash of the new alongside the remarkable tried and true.

As you might imagine, we have some wonderful brewers and distillers among us, which creates quite a lively scene. Playing off the popularity of our Santa Fe Margarita Trail, we’ve created the Santa Fe Craft Beer & Spirits Tour to help you navigate The City’s Different’s ever-growing liquid experience, with as many as 20 participating destinations. Download the official Visit Santa Fe! app and don’t miss a stop!

Our Railyard District gets more exciting by the day! Hop aboard Sky Railway, Santa Fe’s new adventure entertainment trains. These two former Santa Fe Southern Railway engines have been reimagined with a team led by Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin, and feature visuals that reference his work in the form of a graffiti-artinspired dragon and a wolf, created by renowned artist Joerael Numina. Rolling merrily along the 18-mile stretch of track between The City Different and Lamy depots, Sky Railway trains offer holidaythemed experiences, murder mysteries, and more.

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Just a block away, the New Mexico Museum of Art has expanded into a second exciting location called the Vladem Contemporary, which will feature contemporary and postwar artwork. The 35,000-square-foot exhibition space, a former 1930’s brickand-steel warehouse, allows for largescale installations, multimedia projects, education, and performance-based works that are central to 21st-century artistic practice. The architecture is equally 21st century!

In pockets across The City Different and throughout the year, you can find Indigenous art and culture events related to Indigenous Celebration 2022, a coordinated initiative inspired by Santa Fe Indian Market’s Centennial and designed to reposition Indigenous art to its rightful place as the original American Art. The year 2022 also happens to be the 60th anniversary of the Institute of American Indian Arts, and the 50th anniversary of its contemporary Native arts museum, MoCNA.

From big anniversaries to festivals. The very first weeklong Santa Fe Literary Festival opens on May 20 with a lineup of literati from near and far, including keynote speaker Colson Whitehead, Sandra Cisneros, George R.R. Martin, John Grisham, Joy Harjo, Douglas Preston, Lawrence Wright, and Valeria Luiselli, exploring an array of important societal issues through lunches, lectures, and walking tours.

The festival offerings don’t stop there: Plan way ahead to get your tickets for the Santa Fe Winter Arts Festival, February 10–19, 2023. A few of Santa Fe’s leading arts organizations, including Performance Santa Fe, Santa Fe Pro Musica, and The Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, invite you to attend exciting live performances spanning multiple genres of music, dance, and more.

Now you can walk The City Different with even greater ease and pleasure. Conveniently located at the corner of Water Street and Don Gaspar near the historic Plaza, you can find multi-stall public restrooms. A welcome upgrade for a destination that enjoys 2.5 million visitors a year, many of whom could be on a scavenger hunt designed by the locals at DiscoverSantaFe (discoversantafe. us). Great for families, groups of friends, and work teams who are eager to learn more about Santa Fe and relish a collaborative, fun experience. It’s a mobile phone-based game that offers rich history, arts, and fun facts in travel-sized bites as you walk through town.

With everything that 2022 brings, it’s either time to return or time for your first visit!