Santa Fe
A self-guided audio walking tour of Santa Fe, United States
This self-guided audio walking tour of Santa Fe in Santa Fe, United States covers 18 narrated stops over roughly 90 minutes and about 6.8 km on foot. Press play in the PodWalk app and each stop is narrated automatically as you arrive — walk at your own pace, online or fully offline. The route runs from Alfred M. Bergere House to Palace of the Governors. Expect a focus on history, architecture and hidden gems.
Download free, then play this walk in Santa Fe — narration starts automatically at each stop, online or off.
The route, stop by stop
Alfred M. Bergere House
Eighteen-seventy. The Civil War is five years cold, and someone is pressing adobe into this lot on Grant Avenue — building not a palace, not a government seat, but a family…
Santiago E. Campos United States Courthouse
When American federal authority arrived in Santa Fe, it needed a face — something that said: this is no longer a colonial outpost. It chose…
Main Library
Every governing order eventually builds a place to manage its subjects — and one of the quietest instruments of American authority on this plaza was, of all things, a…
Cross of the Martyrs
A cross planted on a hill isn't just a marker — it's a claim. And this one marks the site where, in 1680, the Pueblo people rose and drove the Spanish from Santa Fe for twelve…
Padre Gallegos House
The name on this house belongs to a man who made the colonial church uncomfortable — Padre José Manuel Gallegos, a New Mexican priest who kept getting elected to things when he was supposed to be keeping…
Allison Dormitory
A dormitory built in 1930 sounds like an afterthought — a practical box dropped onto a city already thick with centuries. But the name on this building at 433 Paseo de Peralta is doing quiet, deliberate…
Zozobra
Every city that has been written over — by conquest, by law, by commerce — eventually produces an effigy. Something that…
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
She never actually lived in Santa Fe. That's the first thing worth saying about the museum bearing her…
The Ortiz Houses
Two houses. Two names on the same wall: Nicholas Ortiz III, Antonio José Ortiz. In a city where most buildings outlasted the memory of who built them, these kept the…
Lensic Theater
Six grandchildren. That's what the name "Lensic" spells out — the initials of E. John Greer's grandchildren, stitched together across a marquee on West San Francisco…
Laughlin Building
1923. Two names carved into stone — an owner and a builder — and almost nothing else recorded about either of…
Don Gaspar Bridge
In 1934, while the country was deep in the Depression, Santa Fe built a bridge — and named it after a man most visitors have never heard…
San Miguel Mission
Around 1610, someone laid the first adobe bricks here — and that act of building has never really stopped being…
Buffalo Dancer
A marble buffalo dancer, mid-step, carved by a living Nez Perce artist — it's an unusual thing to find standing quietly in the Capitol's…
Loretto Chapel
In 1878, the Sisters of Loretto commissioned a chapel modeled after the Gothic Sainte-Chapelle in Paris — in the middle of the high desert, eight hundred miles from the nearest French…
Saint Francis of Assisi
A statue of a saint, standing in the open — not inside a church, not behind glass. That's worth pausing…
IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts
Every institution in this city was built to tell a particular story about who belongs here. This one was built to answer…
Palace of the Governors
Four centuries of rule — Spanish, Mexican, American — all administered from this single long, low building. The oldest public seat of government still standing in the United States, and it began the same year Santa Fe…
These are the opening lines of each stop. The full narration — and the audio — plays in the app.
Santa Fe — FAQ
- How long is the Santa Fe walking tour?
- About 90 minutes on foot, covering 18 stops over 6.8 km. You can pause and pick it back up whenever you like.
- What does the Santa Fe audio tour cover?
- 18 narrated stops, beginning at Alfred M. Bergere House and ending at Palace of the Governors. Each one plays automatically as you reach it.
- Do I need an internet connection or mobile data?
- No. Download the walk once in the PodWalk app and the narration plays fully offline — handy while roaming in the United States. GPS triggers each stop as you arrive.
- Is the Santa Fe audio tour free?
- Your first walk on PodWalk is free. After that, walks come through one-time passes from $2.99 — there's no subscription and nothing auto-renews.
- Can I do the tour at my own pace?
- Yes. There's no guide and no schedule — start when you want, linger as long as you like, and the next stop plays automatically when you get there.
Walk Santa Fe with PodWalk
Free to download. Your first walk is free, and you can download this one for fully offline use.