Santa Fe Rail Trail

Santa Fe Rail Trail
View of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains
Length	15 mi (24 km)[1]
Location	Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
Established	July 2010[1]
Trailheads	Zia Road Rabbit Road Nine Mile Road Avenida Vista Grande Avenida Eldorado Highway 285
Use	Commuting, Hiking, Trail running, Mountain Biking
Season	All year
Hazards	Dehydration
Surface	paved, natural

The Santa Fe Rail Trail is a multi-use trail, part of the trail system in the city of Santa Fe, New Mexico. The trail begins at the Santa Fe Depot, in the Railyard arts district, and ends at U.S. Route 285, near Lamy, New Mexico and the Lamy station. An example of Rails with trails, it parallels the New Mexico Rail Runner Express tracks to roughly I-25, where it then continues along the Santa Fe Southern Railway. The Santa Fe Rail trail is 15 miles long, is asphalted for the first 3.5 miles, and improved natural surface for 11.5 miles. The last few miles between Eldorado and US-285 is unimproved natural surface.