Things to do in Albuquerque & Santa Fe

One of the world's longest aerial trams, lifting riders 4,000 feet to a summit overlooking five states.

Adobe storefronts, turquoise jewelry stalls, and a 300-year-old church around a shaded plaza.

A hands-on museum tracing the science and history of ballooning, from the first flight to modern race records.

Hundreds of hot-air balloons fill the sky at dawn in the world's largest ballooning event.

The historic heart of Santa Fe since 1610, ringed by adobe portals, galleries, and the old Palace of the Governors.

The largest collection of Georgia O'Keeffe's work anywhere, steps from the plaza that inspired much of it.

A walk-through art installation inside a converted bowling alley, where a mysterious house hides portals to other worlds.

Ancestral Puebloan cliff dwellings you can climb into, tucked in a canyon below the Jemez Mountains.

The oldest continuously used public building in the United States, now a museum of New Mexico history.

A quarter-mile of adobe galleries turning a former burro trail into one of the country's densest art districts.

A zoo, aquarium, and botanic garden along the Rio Grande, all under one combination ticket.

Thousands of images carved into volcanic rock by Ancestral Puebloan and Spanish settlers over 700 years.

A tiny Gothic chapel famous for a spiral wooden staircase with no visible means of support.

A Pueblo Revival landmark hotel that has anchored the corner of the Santa Fe Plaza since the 1920s.

A family-run Santa Fe institution serving red chile plates in a rambling 1692 adobe hacienda.

New Mexico's capital city, known for adobe architecture, Native American and Spanish colonial history, art galleries and the historic Plaza.

Ride the longest aerial tram in the Americas 2.7 miles up to the 10,378-foot summit of Sandia Peak.

The official destination marketing organization for Albuquerque, offering trip planning tools and visitor information centers.

122-acre nature park east of Albuquerque housing rescued native wildlife that cannot return to the wild.

RV tour of Albuquerque filming locations from Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, and El Camino.

Museum created by New Mexico's 19 Pueblos showcasing Pueblo art, history, and living traditions.

Congressionally chartered Albuquerque museum tracing the Atomic Age from the Manhattan Project to nuclear medicine.

A double-drop waterfall and lake on Nambe Pueblo land, with trails, fishing, kayaking and camping.

A Santa Fe studio making handcrafted Fairtrade Gold engagement rings, wedding bands and custom designs.

A scenic byway linking Santa Fe and Albuquerque through historic mining towns and mountain views.

A restored 1910 Santa Fe Railway Harvey House with exhibits on the Harvey Girls and railroad history.

Self-guided trails to a lava-tube ice cave with year-round ice and a volcanic cinder cone near Grants, New Mexico.

The world's largest juried Native American art market, held annually on the Santa Fe Plaza.

Sunrise hot air balloon flights over Albuquerque's Rio Grande Valley and Sandia Mountains.

A working alpaca ranch and fiber shop near Santa Fe offering family farm visits and handwoven wool goods.

A family-owned Old Town Albuquerque trading post selling Native American jewelry, pottery and crafts since 1974.