The HEARTSEED is an ideal setting for nature living people who want to experience the great outdoors in this spectacular high desert mountain environment.

Horseback Riding:
Located only two miles from Cerrillos' Center at the "Makarios Ranch". Schedule
your trail rides with Annie and call (505)473-1038.

Hiking:
There are several local options for hiking including the trails that wind through our
own land. In addition, just two miles up the road, you will find the Santa Fe Botanical Gardens. The Conservation Group offers guided educational tours into the 1300-acre reserve in the Ortiz Mountains. For information about hiking tours, call: (505)428-1684.
Just 10 minutes away you can hike or mountain bike in the Cerrillos Hills Historic Park, consisting of 1,116 acres rich with silver and turquoise mining history. For more information visit their website: www.cerrilloshills.org. Within 45 minutes you can hike in the Sangre de Cristos or the Sandia Mountains, or over by Cochiti Pueblo "Tent Rocks" is a favorite hiking destination.

Mountain. Biking:
In the town of Cerrillos and Madrid, schedule a Mountain Bike Tour:
"New Mexico Mountain Bike Adventures": 505-474-0074.

Also the Sandia Ski area provides summer rides up the mountain on a chair lift with a special rack for hanging your bike on the back of the lift. Another excellent place to ride is in the Cerrillos Hills park (see Hiking above for details.)

Massage:
Suzi Weaver offers massage at 4 Waldo Street, Cerrillos, on Tuesdays and Fridays.
She also has an office at 1503 Llano Street, Santa Fe, and is available there on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday. Appointments can be made for either location by calling 505-660-5471. Appointments for her Cerrillos location can also be made at the "Enchanted Cafe on First": (505) 474-0112.

Day Trips:


Within 15 minutes you can visit:

Cerrillos village: famous movie set for such movies as "Young Guns." An old mining town that in its peak had 21 saloons and 4 hotels. Now a quaint village with a mining museum and petting zoo, the "What Not" antique shop, several galleries, and the "Enchanted Cafe on First". Also there is hiking in the Cerrillos Hills Historic Park.

Madrid: an old coal mining town revived in the early 70s when the mining company sold the town. Great shops and galleries. A true artists' colony. Live entertainment and local color at the "Mine Shaft Tavern". Original soda fountain in "Maya Jones", and great lunches at "Mama Lisa's Ghost Town Kitchen".
www.turquoisetrail.org/madrid.htm


Waldo: Explore a genuine ghost town sixmiles east of I-25 and twomiles west of
the village of Cerrillos, along the Galisteo River.
www.ghosttowns.com/states/nm/waldo.html


Within 1/2 to one hour you can visit:

Sandia Crest panoramic overlook. 10,781 ft. with beautiful hikes in the Cibola National Forest with aspen glades, tall ponderosas, and many wild flower meadows.
www.turquoisetrail.org/sandiacrest.htm

Cochiti Lake Recreation Area: Boating, swimming, windsurfing, and fishing on a
seven mile long lake with 21 miles of shoreline. Picnic areas.

Santa Fe: the second oldest town in the US and home of the Santa Fe style: over 150 art galleries, 200 restaurants, 50 Indian jewelry stores, eight museums, and the third largest art market in the US. Walk around the plaza, tour the Palace of the Governors, the St. Francis Cathedral. Walk beautiful Canyon Road, the gallery district, visit the famous Sanctuario de Guadalupe, the oldest shrine in the US to our Lady of Guadalupe. Take a ride on the Santa Fe Southern Railway. Visit the Wheelwright Museum and the Museum of Indian Art and Culture, the world famous Museum of International Folk Art, the Museum of Fine Art, and the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum.
www.santafe.org

Santa Fe National Forest: Fabulous Hiking (or skiing), or picnicking.
www.fs.fed.us/r3/sfe

La Cienega: visit the Los Golondrinas (ranch of the swallows) living ranch museum, 200 acres depicting the life of the early Spanish settlers.

Indian Pueblos: Nambe, Tesuque, San Ildefonso, Santa Domingo, Cochiti, Sandia, and San Felipe Pueblos.

Tent Rocks: spectacular hiking amid multi-colored rock spirals near Cochiti Pueblo.
www.nm.blm.gov/aufo/tent_rocks/tent_rocks.html

Galisteo village: home of Chris Grissom's Light Institute.

Tinkertown Museum: Antique carnival machines, music boxes, miniature wildwest town, memorabilia.
www.tinkertown.com

Albuquerque: New Mexico's largest city, museums, restaurants, university of NM,
Rio Grand Zoo, the aquarium, botanical gardens, the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, the Sandia Peak Tramway and Petroglyph National Monument.
www.cabq.gov

Within one to two hours you can visit:

Bandelier National Monument: Anasazi pueblo and cliff dwellings, many petroglyphs and pictographs. Miles of hiking trails along a cool stream among the ponderosas.
www.desertusa.com/ban

The Jemez Mountains: hiking, fishing, x-country skiing. Valle Grande,one of the
largest volcanic craters in the world. Jemez Springs, natural hot springs.
www.americansouthwest.net/new_mexico/jemez_mountains

Los Alamos: National Museum of Science and Nuclear technology.
www.losalamos.com

Santuario de Chimayo: famous shrine and destination for annual pilgrimages.
Known for the miraculous healing dirt.
www.archdiocesesantafe.org/AboutASF/Chimayo.html

Pecos National Wilderness and historical park: hiking, fishing, mission church
and pueblo ruins.
www.gorp.com/gorp/resource/us_nhp/nm_pecos.htm

Taos: hiking, rafting on the Rio Grande, galleries, museums, The Rio Grand
Gorge Bridge (650 ft. above the Rio Grand). Also visit the Taos Pueblo the
oldest continuously inhabited pueblo in the US.
www.taosguide.com

Ojo Caliente Hot Springs: About 1/2 hour from Espanola, a natural hot
springs resort with hotspring fed swimming pool and other baths.
www.ojocaliente.com

Indian Pueblos: Taos, Santa Clara, San Juan, Picuris, Santa Ana, Zia, Jemez and Acoma.

Abiquiu: Home of famous painter Georgia O’Keefe (tours available). Pastel cliffs of

the Gallina fault zone, the Ghost Ranch Living museum, Echo Canyon amphitheatre.
Abiquiu lake: swimming, boating and fishing.
www.abiquiuland.com

Las Vegas: Armand Hammar World College, Storey Lake, McAllister Lake and
Bird sanctuary.
www.worldplaces.com/Las.Vegas.New.Mexico

Chama: Cumbres-Toltec Narrow Gauge Railway.
www.chama.com/newsite/homepage.htm

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