Why this ride
A 234 km round trip from Santa Fe - roughly 3 h 38 in the saddle. It goes by way of Taos Pueblo and back through Taos Pueblo. The stored terrain estimate reaches about 2,850 m; a measured road-elevation profile is not available.
CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Santa Fe day out · Taos Pueblo
Plan this ride
- Recorded distance
- 234 km
- Riding-time estimate
- 3 h 38
- Journey
- Recorded itinerary
Distance and timing basis
The recorded total and the leg detail need reconciliation. Inspect the leg notes before using this record for timing or navigation. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
Reading history stays on this device. My road watch requires a separate selection; opening it does not subscribe this ride.
Distance and riding time are measured on the routed road. Check local closures and conditions before you ride.
Scenic road chapters
Enchanted Circle Scenic Byway
Expect company on a summer weekend. Early is better than fast. For 1 km this is Enchanted Circle Scenic Byway, a road with a name of its own and a reason for it.
Chapter facts
- Length
- 1 km
- Named road
- Enchanted Circle Scenic Byway
Waypoint introductions and full write-ups
1. Santa Fe
Route 66 used to go to Santa Fe, and then in 1937 it did not. The original alignment of the Mother Road ran over Glorieta Pass into the old Spanish capital of New Mexico, before dropping south to Albuquerque, and then engineers cut a straight line across the desert from Santa Rosa to Albuquerque, shaving about a hundred miles off the journey and leaving Santa Fe on a bypassed loop. The ride from Amarillo to Santa Fe follows that early route, and this is the end of it, in a city at about seven thousand feet in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
Read the complete Santa Fe write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Santa Fe is where the day begins. Next is Taos Pueblo.
2. Taos Pueblo
Taos Pueblo has been lived in for roughly a thousand years, which makes it one of the oldest continuously inhabited communities in the United States. The core of it is a pair of multi-story adobe buildings, North House and South House, which rise in stepped terraces against the backdrop of Taos Mountain. A small stream, the Red Willow Creek, runs between them, bringing water from the Sangre de Cristo range, and that stream is the reason the people settled here in the first place.
Read the complete Taos Pueblo write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Taos Pueblo comes up 61 km in.
3. Taos Pueblo
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Taos Pueblo write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
122 km in you reach Taos Pueblo. Next is back through Taos Pueblo.
4. back through Taos Pueblo
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Taos Pueblo write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
back through Taos Pueblo, late in the day. Next is Santa Fe.
5. Santa Fe
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Santa Fe write-up.
Recorded stop-planning note
May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.
Planning note
Back at Santa Fe. That is the ride.
Leg by leg
Santa Fe to Taos Pueblo
Santa Fe → Taos Pueblo is 122 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Taos Pueblo to Santa Fe
back through Taos Pueblo → Santa Fe is 122 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
More motorcycle rides nearby
- High Road to Taos · 126 km
- Talimena to Santa Fe High Road · 129 km
- Enchanted Circle and Cimarron Canyon Loop · 177 km