Galisteo Basin Preserve

Nice place for a bike ride

My husband and I stopped by Galisteo Basin Preserve for a few minutes. We were visiting the Santa Fe area. It looked like a nice place to ride a bike. There is a Galisteo Basin Preserve sign along US-...

Good place to hike

We enjoyed an easy hike up to some amazing views! We took some really great photos and even found some interesting rocks. We could have spent more time here if we had planned for it but we’d up here o...

Ideal Hiking and Biking Trails

Numerous trails abound for hiking and biking with varying degrees of difficulty. The terrain is south western high desert environment from ridge tops to the valley floor. With trail and intersection...

Only moderately interesting relative to other area open spaces

This area is more high desert than mountains and it does have some interesting geography, but overall it makes for a less inspiring hike or ride than other area trail systems.

Very surreal landscape

We drove through and hiked out a bit. The landscape is totally surreal. Much different than Santa Fe, which is up against the hills. This is more plains of grass with sculptural cholla dotting the are...