Santa Fe Rail Trail – Santa Fe, New Mexico 2004.

Santa Fe Rail Trail – Santa Fe, New Mexico. June 2004. This is not a rail-to-trail but a trail that runs along side a railroad on the route of the Santa Fe Trail. This trail has a lot of ups and downs and short steep climbs. We caught this trail where it goes from pavement to dirt at the intersection of Zia Rd & St Francis in Santa Fe. This is a trailhead with parking. From what we had read this trail was supposed to take us to the town of Lamy but as far as we could tell it dead ends into highway 285 (a couple miles shy of Lamy according to the mile markers). The dirt portion of this trail is about 13 miles long. We rode out & back for a total of about 27.5 miles and a little over 4 hours. There are a lot of off shoots on this trail and on most of the ride there is trail on both sides of the tracks.