Welcome to Santa Fe

A world-renowned travel destination unparalleled in richness of history, heritage, arts and culture. You'll be nestled in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, the foothills of the Rockies, immersed in natural beauty, with an average of 300 days of sunshine and blue sky. Come and prepare for your perfect day in Santa Fe.

Santa Fe’s Plaza has served as the city’s social nexus for four centuries. Now a casual, grassy park, it started as a central place around which Spanish officials built houses and barracks. The Palace of the Governors, constructed soon after the Plaza was established, still stands on the Plaza’s north side, and is the oldest continuously occupied public building in the U.S. Built around the time of Santa Fe’s founding, the Palace served as a seat of the viceroyalty of New Spain’s colonial government, then was home to Mexican and, even later, American territorial governors.

See why Santa Fe has been named one of the country's healthiest cities, top travel destinations, and one of the leading art centers in the country.

Conference Hotel

The conference will be held at the Eldorado Hotel and Spa near the historic Santa Fe Plaza.

A room block will be available until February 3, 2012. The rate will be the current government per diem rate of $83 plus taxes. After this date, rooms will continue to be available at the same rate on a first-come, first-served basis. Rates can't be guaranteed after January 29th.

You will need to make your own hotel reservations by calling 505-988-4455. Even if your lodging is covered by a conference travel grant, you must still book the room yourself and provide your credit card in case you have incidental expenses not eligible to be covered by LANL (room service, movies, bar, etc.).

Local Transportation

Parking at the Eldorado Hotel is $15 per night.

The major airport for travelers coming to Santa Fe is Albuquerque International Airport (ABQ), located in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Albuqeurque is about 60 miles south of Santa Fe. The airport has car rental facilities and a shuttle terminal.

Santa Fe also has a small municipal airport (SAF). A few commercial carriers use this airport. For information look here.

Shuttle Services
(Reservations required. $50 roundtrip.)

Roadrunner Shuttle (ABQ and Santa Fe)
(505) 424-3367

Sandia Shuttle Express
(888) 775-5696 (toll free)
www.sandiashuttle.com

Rental Cars

Hertz Rental Car
www.hertz.com (800) 654-3131
You may use LANL's Official Travel Discount Code for the duration of the conference. CDP# 72120.

Taxis

Santa Fe
Capital City Cab
(505) 438-0000

Albuquerque
Albuquerque Cab Company
(505) 883-4888

Yellow Cab Company
(505) 247-8888

Railrunner Train
website

The Railrunner runs from Albuquerque to Santa Fe for $7 each way. There are free buses to take you from the Albuquerque airport to the train station and then from the Santa Fe train station to local hotels.

Bus

Santa Fe Trails Bus System
Routes and Schedules

The most commonly used routes are Route 2 - Cerrillos Road and Route M - Museum Hill. The Cerrillos Road route goes between many budget hotels and the Santa Fe Plaza Area. The Museum Hill route takes passengers from the Plaza area to local museums.

Park and Ride bus from Los Alamos
The Blue Route of the Park and Ride bus is an excellent way to get from the Lab to the conference and back each day. It costs $3 each way and will be virtually empty as you will be riding opposite of commuter traffic. It will pick you up from either the Los Alamos Library or the TA-3 parking front gate parking lot and drop you off at Sheritan and Palace (a few easy blocks from the conference location).

Pick up times from LANL's TA-3 (The Public Library is 10 minutes earlier):

6:55 am, 7:25 am, 8:10 am, 8:45 am

Return times from the SF Plaza:

2:30 pm, 3:30 pm, 4:05 pm, 4:50 pm

Things to Do

Santa Fe:

For information about Santa Fe, visit http://santafe.org

For information about New Mexico, visit http://newmexico.org/

Attractions

Calendar of Events

El Rancho de las Golondrinas
We invite you to take a journey to the past at "The Ranch of the Swallows". This historic rancho, now a living history museum, dates from the early 1700s and was an important paraje or stopping point along the famous Camino Real, the Royal Road from Mexico City to Santa Fe, New Mexico. Experience the life of another time in a location unlike anyother in America.

Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
The Museum’s collection of over 2990 works comprises 1149 O’Keeffe paintings, drawings, and sculpture, including promised gifts and extended loans. The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum is the largest single repository of O'Keeffe's work in the world. Throughout the year,visitors can see a changing selection of at least 50 of these works. In addition, the Museum presents special exhibitions that are either devoted entirely to O’Keeffe’s work or combine examples of her art with works by her American modernist contemporaries. Over 140 artists have been exhibited at the Museum including Frank Stella, Jackson Pollack,Andy Warhol and Arthur Dove.

Museum of Spanish Colonial Art
The Spanish Colonial Arts Society collections were initiated in 1928. Today with 3,000 objects, the collections are the most comprehensive compilation of Spanish Colonial art of their kind. Dating from the Middle Ages to the New Millennium, the collections span centuries in art, place and time. Among the various media featured are santos (painted and sculpted images of saints,) textiles, tinwork, silverwork, goldwork, ironwork, straw appliqué, ceramics, furniture, books and more.

Los Alamos:

Going to Los Alamos? Here is the Visitor's Guide.

Maps of Los Alamos Townsite, Jemez Mountains, and Northern New Mexico.

What you really want to see.

Bradbury Science Museum (Operated by LANL. Free and Open to the Public)
Walking Tour of the old townsite or a 1.5 hour Guided Tour.
Bandelier National Park (20 minutes from Los Alamos. Native American ruins & hiking)
Valles Caldera National Preserve in the Jemez Mountains (20 minutes from Los Alamos and scenic Northern New Mexico at its best.)