Outdoors · Santa Fe Foothills

Santa Fe Foothills, NM parks, trails & bike paths

About 7.8% of Santa Fe Foothills is conserved land, roughly 414 acres. There are about 5.6 miles of mapped trails, and the biggest networks are in Santa Fe National Forest (0.8 mi).

Conserved land, trails, parks and bike routes in Santa Fe Foothills, measured from OpenStreetMap and USGS data.

At a glance

Santa Fe Foothills outdoors

Conserved land
7.8%
414 of 5,273 acres
Trails
5.6 mi
0.7 mi per sq mi · 2 on conserved land
Parks & preserves
1
named on the map
Bike routes
3.8 mi
1.1 mi lanes · 0.0 mi off-road paths

Conserved land is a share of the whole town area. Bike lanes are often missing from the map in smaller towns, so that number is likely low.

Map

Conserved land, trails & bike routes

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Tap a number or a place below to zoom in© OpenStreetMap contributors · USGS PAD-US
Places to walk

Parks & preserves with trails

Ranked by mapped trail miles. Directions go to the nearest marked trailhead or public parking.
1

Santa Fe National Forest

Managed by United States Forest Service
294 acres0.8 mi of trail
No Go
Dog rules not recorded
No trailhead mapped yet Website
Who protects the land

414 conserved acres

Who manages it, from PAD-US. Approximate, because parcels can overlap.
U.S. Forest Service
294 ac
Land trusts & nonprofits
115 ac
County
5 ac

Conserved doesn't always mean open to visitors. 115 acres are conservation easements, which are usually private land. The places listed above are parks and preserves people visit.

Biking & sports

Bike routes, courts & fields

  • Painted or protected bike lanes1.1 mi
  • Off-road bike paths0.0 mi
  • Shoulders & shared lanes2.7 mi

Courts & fields

  • Tennis10
  • Equestrian3
  • Basketball2
  • Soccer1

Counts include school and college facilities, which aren't always open to the public.

Nearby

Santa Fe Foothills and its neighbors

Towns whose outdoors data has been built so far.
TownConservedTrailsParks & preserves
Santa Fe Foothills7.8%5.6 mi1
Santa Fe4%190.8 mi74
Cañada de los Alamos9.8%5.3 mi1
Conejo7%4.0 mi1
Sunlit Hills0.4%2.6 mi1
Trail talk

Conditions & tips from neighbors

No recent posts about Santa Fe Foothills's trails yet. Muddy, icy, a bridge out, where to park: a quick post helps the next person.

Sources: trails, parks, preserves, courts and bike lanes © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), map data as of 2026-09-28. Conserved land: USGS Gap Analysis Project, Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US). Measured against the Census town boundary.

How we measure"Trails" are OpenStreetMap paths, bridleways, public tracks and unpaved footways, plus footways inside a park or preserve or on a named trail route. Sidewalks are left out. Areas are counted on a 20-meter grid, so overlapping parcels count once. "Conserved" includes conservation easements, which protect land from development but are usually private property. Trailheads are the nearest marked trailhead, public parking lot or information board within about 150 meters of a preserve. Dog rules come from OpenStreetMap when someone has tagged them; otherwise we show what's typical for the land manager, or say the rules aren't recorded.

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