31. St. John’S College Bookstore
City: Santa Fe, NM
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (505) 984-6056
Address: 1160 Camino de la Cruz Blanca
Description: This store is a wonderful place to browse. As one would expect from a college that focuses on the “great books,” you’ll discover an excellent selection of the classics here as well as mainstream titles and more experimental literary offerings. While you’re here, take a look at St. John’s College’s attractive campus or go for a hike on the steep but scenic Atalaya Trail into the foothills.
32. Travel Bug
City: Santa Fe, NM
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (505) 992-0418
Address: 839 Paseo de Peralta
Description: This excellent little specialty bookstore has Santa Fe’s best selection of travel books, maps, guides, and travel journals, and the complete USGS map series for New Mexico and Colorado. The store also has all the topographic maps of New Mexico on CD-ROM. Travel Bug regularly schedules slide shows and talks by travel writers and photographers, usually Saturdays at 5 p.m. The store serves espresso bar, teas, cold drinks, and light snacks. The helpful staff can assist you in trip planning. Look for the flags of several nations and the carving of the Patron Saint of Espresso.
33. Blue Moon Books And Vintage Video
City: Santa Fe, NM
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (505) 982-3035
Address: 329 Garfield St.
Description: In an old house turned bookstore, Blue Moon’s books and rooms seem to go on and on—it’s easy to lose yourself in the stacks. Not only will you find your way out again, but you’ll also discover a great selection of videos to rent or buy, and a staff that knows the inventory. Spiritual traditions of the East and West, books on the occult, and books about film are among their specialties.
34. Book Mountain
City: Santa Fe, NM
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (505) 471-2625
Address: 2101 Cerrillos Rd.
Description: This one-room space is crammed with paperbacks of all kinds, including some books you probably never heard of. You’ll find a good selection of mysteries and romances as well as best sellers, Westerns, and even comic books. You can pick up some inexpensive vacation reading and trade them in for something else when you’re done. Closed Sundays.
35. Books And More Books
City: Santa Fe, NM
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (505) 983-5438
Address: 1341 Cerrillos Rd.
Description: A well-stocked, well-organized bookstore, Books and More Books offers pre-owned treasures in categories ranging from art to science. You can browse to your heart’s content or ask the owners, a poet and his wife, for their recommendations on a specific topic.
36. Nicholas Potter Bookseller
City: Santa Fe, NM
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (505) 983-5434
Address: 211 East Palace Ave.
Description: Proprietor and owner Potter has made use of all the available space—and then some—to the delight of his established customers and newcomers who might chance on the store. A selective and savvy book dealer, Potter has been in the book business for more than 40 years. Located in an old house on historic Palace Avenue, the store is inviting—a great place to spend a quiet afternoon.
37. Herbs Etc.
City: Santa Fe, NM
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (505) 982-1265
Address: 1345 Cerrillos Rd.
Description: Jars of dried leaves, stems, and flowers cover the shelves at Herbs Etc. You can find tinctures, oils, and infusions as well as herbs packed in capsules just like Tylenol. The people who work here can answer health questions from an alternative health-care perspective.
38. Kaune Food Town
City: Santa Fe, NM
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (505) 982-2629
Address: 511 Old Santa Fe Trail
Description: This is a great place for the gourmet shopper and is within walking distance for Canyon Road and Old Santa Fe Trail shoppers. You’ll find out-of-the-ordinary sauces and mustards and imported crackers and caviar to spread on them. Kaune’s carries jars and cans of everything you need to fix that unique Asian, Italian, or otherwise one-of-a-kind meal. This locally owned grocery is packed with the unusual and exotic, but you can also buy milk, eggs, and, if you must, sliced white bread. It carries a fine selection of fresh meat and welcomes holiday orders.
City: Santa Fe, NM
Category: Shopping
Address: 627 West Alameda St. in the Solana Cente
City: Santa Fe, NM
Category: Shopping
Address: 530 West Cordova Rd.
41. Andrea Fisher Fine Pottery
City: Santa Fe, NM
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (505) 986-1234
Address: 100 West San Francisco St.
Description: This classy shop specializes in just one thing: southwestern Indian pottery. You’ll see fine examples from New Mexico’s pueblos, including historic work by María Martínez, and exquisite work by contemporary potters. Fisher arranges her contemporary and historic pieces by area. They’re also grouped according to age and then by families, sometimes showing seven generations of pots by one family. The owner says a visit is an educational experience—we wish education was always this much fun!
42. The Clay Angel
City: Santa Fe, NM
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (505) 988-4800
Address: 125 Lincoln Ave.
Description: This downtown shop presents work by New Mexico Hispanic artists, along with imports from around the world. You’ll find aspen, pine, and cottonwood bultos, painted retablos, and altar screens by Anita Romero-Jones. Just a short walk from the Plaza, the store specializes in ceramics, glassware, and flatware, but you’ll find a variety of other fine crafts here, too.
43. Davis Mather Folk Art Gallery
City: Santa Fe, NM
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (505) 983-1660
Address: 141 Lincoln Ave.
Description: This tiny gallery is packed full of wonderful animal wood carvings by New Mexican Hispanic artists and American Indians from instate and elsewhere. Among the craftspeople featured are Josefina Aguilar, Ron Rodriguez, Paul Lutonsky, David Alvarez, Doreen Herbert, and Joe Ortega. The gallery has been in business since 1975 and is open daily.
44. Helen Hardin Estate/Silver Sun
City: Santa Fe, NM
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (505) 983-0553
Address: 656 Canyon Rd.
Description: Santa Clara Pueblo artist Helen Hardin, who died in 1984, left a wonderful legacy of artwork, which is featured in this gallery, along with the sculpture of Gerard Tsonakwa and delicate Ácoma and Mata Ortíz pottery from near historic Casas Grandes in Chihuahua, Mexico. You’ll also find Indian jewelry at a wide range of prices. The shop’s jewelry specialty is high-quality, natural American turquoise stones in custom-designed silver and gold settings, created by their own Navajo silversmiths. It also sells pottery by Jacquie Stevens, rugs, fetishes, and carvings.
45. Keshi—The Zuni Connection
City: Santa Fe, NM
Category: Shopping
Telephone: (505) 989-8728
Address: 227 Don Gaspar
Description: This shop, originally started by Zuni Indians, has been in business for decades and is a direct outlet for the Zuni Pueblo. You’ll find Zuni jewelry exclusively and the largest collection of authentic Zuni fetishes in the Santa Fe area. The prices are good and the staff can answer your questions. They’re open seven days a week.