*Activities and Tours*
	Santa Fe’s Original Walking Tour
	Ghosts, Mysteries, Legends And The Not Quite Dead
	Arts and Artists, Studios and Galleries
	Homes, Gardens and Santa Fe Style
	Georgia O'Keeffe Country
	Tours and Activities; Ecotours, Valle Grande
	A Taste of Northern New Mexico and Southwestern Cuisine
	Native American Specialties
	Outdoor Activities, Golf, Hiking, Ballooning, etc.

Santa Fe's Original Walking Tour

This is a thorough, guided tour through the oldest capital city in the U.S.-a leisurely, unforgettable stroll through hundreds of years of Santa Fe's beauty, history, art, culture and conflict. Nothing compares to the visual and cultural impact of Santa Fe, and the best beginning is on the narrow streets - with a well-informed guide. Includes visits to all major historic sights in the downtown area and mention of other available activities. Flexible departure and return times and places to suit corporate and incentive program activities.

See the 'Aboot About Santa Fe' Page for further details

Ghost Tours

Ghosts, Mysteries, Legends and the Not Quite Dead

In the evening, as darkness falls, a guided walking tour into Santa Fe's less well known past - filled with mysteries, unanswered questions and the not quite dead - - our Ghost Tour. This is a lighthearted but thought provoking look into hundreds of years of Native American culture, Spanish legends, and the old Wild West.. We visit buildings and sites where unexplainable things have happened - And are still happening.

"Visits with Julia": Santa Fe's most prominent, and busiest, ghost will meet you and your group at her home, during a meal or a meeting. Requires advance notice as Julia left the earth, technically speaking, over 100 years ago.

"Haunted Hunts": spooky team building activity - search for clues, objects, bodies (living or otherwise) - with live actors popping up unpredictably - a riot of history, complexity and some light hearted spookings. Wonderful event for team building programs and activities.

See the 'Aboot About Santa Fe' Page for further details

Art and Artists

Arts and Artists, Studios and Galleries

There is no place on earth with more creative arts energy manifested per square foot! This is an introductory guided tour into some of the city's best art, the artists who create it and the galleries that display it. Not a superficial selling tour, this is a discovery activity. We visit a balanced mixture of traditional and modern; Native and American; painting, sculpture, jewelry and fabric. Superb event for spouse programs.

Homes, Gardens and Santa Fe Style

What is this "Santa Fe Style"? What is the substance beneath the often-overworked vision of southwestern art and living? The secret is simply the modern adaptation of traditional techniques, design and material. Enjoy a guided, balanced approach that includes modern diversity as well as the classics of Santa Fe's past. Popular tour to include in spouse programs.

This is Santa Fe style, combining Franciscan mission with Pueblo Indian designs. In the same area are examples of the "Territorial style" arriving with the Americans. The highlights of the tour are guided, private visits inside memorable Santa Fe residences selected especially to fit your program and activities. We receive rave reviews for our motorized tour since we have access to private homes unavailable to others.

Georgia O'Keeffe Country

The light, geology, color and natural art of northern New Mexico are nowhere more prominent than around O'Keeffe's beloved Abiquiu. You will immediately appreciate what powered this prolific and legendary artist's creative engine - vibrant colors, cliffs and canyons. The extraordinary land and brilliant light captured her heart and inspired a volume of art work that began in 1917 and carried through until her death in 1986. We can arrange a guided visit to O'Keeffe's home, with advance notice.

Tours and Activities;
Ecotours, Valle Grande

The rim of a gigantic collapsed volcano surrounds the 89,000-acre Valles Caldera Preserve in the Jemez Mountains of Northern New Mexico. Within it is one of the most beautiful and ecologically productive landscapes in northern New Mexico and a place of extraordinary cultural richness.

The Preserve was a private ranch from 1960 until the Congress agreed in 2000 to spend $101 million to buy and protect it for the American people. The Preserve's wide mountain grasslands, peaks of over 11,000 feet, 27 miles of streams and the headwaters of the Wild and Scenic Jemez River create habitat for abundant wildlife, including the largest elk herd in New Mexico.

In creating the Preserve, the Congress specified an unusual management framework for the new public place. It is in the hands of a nine-member trust. The President appoints the trustees. They are charged with protecting the area's scientific, scenic, historic and cultural resources and for providing opportunities for public recreation, sustained-yield timber production and livestock grazing. The trust is also charged with devising a demonstration area for an experimental management regime which could provide long-term financial sustainability for the Preserve.

A Taste of Northern New Mexico
and Southwestern Cuisine

The area's most popular half day activity, this is an in-depth, guided introduction to both ancient and modern Native American cultures, and a traditional Spanish village - plus lunch at a beautiful old New Mexico style hacienda.
Explore Bandelier National Monument, an unforgettable site that reveals 2000 years of Native American history including the ancient pueblo in Frijoles Canyon where visitors can climb into actual cliff dwellings and walk among the pueblo's structural remains. Native American guides available.

Nearby, discover the nation's premiere science community with a tour of Los Alamos --- home of the atomic bomb and a superb science/history museum. Next, a visit to San Ildefonso Pueblo - filled with striking similarities to what we have just experienced at Bandelier. These are the Native American descendants of Bandelier, and their modern day Indian community holds to ancient customs, beliefs and architecture. This is also the home of prominent families of artists who create the region's famous red and black pottery. Time permitting, we'll visit their studios and homes.

The day's activities can include a visit with an 8th generation weaving family at their farm near Chimayo. This Spanish family is renowned for their traditional weavings (in the Smithsonian and other museums). They will introduce us to their art. And no tour of the area is complete without experiencing the culture epitomized by the Santuario de Chimayo---a centuries-old, tiny mission church known as the "Lourdes" of New Mexico. The Santuario is one of the most important Catholic pilgrimage sites in the U. S. because of the miracles attributed to the soil beneath the church.

Taos, Chimayo and the Old High Road

Probably the most popular day trip out of Santa Fe - and for good reason. This is a visual, cultural and spiritual experience not available anywhere else on our planet. Your first view of Taos pueblo is a memorable experience. It was created by people who have successfully resisted destruction of their religion and culture for over four hundred years. The beauty, history and geology along the Rio Grande are unforgettable.

Nor is there anything comparable to the remote, charming and culturally significant Spanish villages scattered along the old high road to Taos. Here is another civilization proudly nurturing centuries old ideals: Familia y Fe - the “family and faith” foundation blocks of traditional Spanish life. Will include the: Taos Pueblo, Taos’ Millicent Rodgers museum, the maybe miraculous Santuario de Chimayo, the home and studio of an 8th generatrion weaving family

Step On Guide Services

Our experienced, knowledgeable and adult guides will lead

your group on any of the above described activities - or

anything else you can think of, anywhere in the Southwest.

Excellent people skills and problem solving promised. Our "Half

and Half Tour" is a favorite (a half day mix of driving and

walking plus lunch and shopping ideas). Call, email or fax us

and we'll help you put together the unforgettable expereience

you want - within your budget.

Activities and Tours