Donate to the Santa Fe to Taos Thru-Hike

The Santa Fe to Taos Trail is registered as a 501(c)(3) organization. Our employer identification number (EIN) is 93-3897864.

Our mission is four-fold:

  1. Raise awareness that the SF2T Trail exists – that people can hike from the Santa Plaza to Taos Plaza.
  2. Get people excited enough about the trail to consider doing it themselves, and to give them confidence that they can do it.
  3. To make sure they have enough information, resources, and a well-enough maintained trail to have a great time on their hike.
  4. To give people a positive experience of the wilderness so they will care enough about it to take ongoing, meaningful action to preserve it.

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We believe this trail could be a tremendous opportunity for New Mexicans, both to enjoy the backcountry themselves and to support tourists doing the SF2T. But primarily, we want to provide support and education to help New Mexicans, young and old, experienced and not-so-experienced, get out on the trail.

Achieving that goal requires time, effort, organization and promotion, insurance and permits, gear for people who don’t have their own, competent guides, on-the-ground support for transport and supplies, and publicity and marketing, and trail information programs to generate enough interest and enthusiasm to get people to come out and see our beautiful New Mexico public lands.

We also believe the Santa Fe to Taos Trail presents an opportunity to talk about climate change. As our climate shifts, and wildfires become more intense and frequent, this land is changing. The forests the trail goes through are under stress.

The trail is also an opportunity to connect. To connect to ourselves, to nature and its wild things, and to the cultural history of this area. It is also a place to connect to something ever greater, that goes by many names – the great mystery, the universal consciousness, the divine creation, the Creator – that reflects itself in the land.

Our hope and our work is to give people an experience of the wilderness that is transformational so they will care enough to take action to protect what we still have.