Mezcla de Culturas Walking Tour

Most visitors see Albuquerque's Old Town and move on, never realizing how much of the city's story is written in the blocks around it. This walk, which the New York Times called the best way to delve into Albuquerque's rich history, is built to change that. Over two hours, you will trace three centuries and three cultures, Native American, Hispanic, and Anglo, that layered together to make the Duke City what it is.

It begins where Albuquerque began, in the Old Town plaza laid out in 1706. Here you will visit the city's oldest home, wander the Albuquerque Museum Sculpture Gardens, and stand before San Felipe de Neri Parish, which has kept a presence on the plaza since the year of the city's founding. Every adobe wall and shaded courtyard carries three hundred years of history.

Then the story leaps forward. Crossing into the Sawmill District, once home to the American Lumber Company, you will see Albuquerque reinventing itself: an old industrial quarter reborn as a neighborhood of loft housing, artist studios, and mixed-use spaces that honor its working past. The walk ends at the bustling Sawmill Market, where the city's three centuries of reinvention come together over food, drink, and local craft.