4 Best Shopping in Day Trips from Santa Fe, New Mexico

You'll find an incredible collection of fine Spanish Colonial, Mexican, and Indigenous paintings, textiles, carvings, ceramics, sculptures, and furnishings in this rambling gallery, but part of the fun of visiting is just walking through this grand, rambling historic compound in Abiquiú's unpaved village center. It consists of a large old home, a 5,000-square-foot former mercantile, and lush gardens enclosed within massive adobe walls.

The Trujillo family weaving tradition, which started in northern New Mexico more than seven generations ago, is carried out in this colorful, inviting gallery. Irvin Trujillo and his wife, Lisa, are both gifted, renowned master weavers, creating Rio Grande–style tapestry blankets and rugs, many of them with natural dyes that authentically replicate early weavings. Most designs are historically based, but the Trujillos are never shy about innovating and their original works are as breathtaking as the traditional ones.

Owned by renowned Santa Fe chocolatier Hayward Simoneaux, this bright and colorful shop specializes in folk art and carries wonderfully offbeat and eye-catching items from all over the world and at a wide range of price points. Think Spanish-colonial-style leather messenger bags, hand-painted wild boar ceramic piggy banks, Mexican paper-mâché eggs painted to look like lucha libre masks, and hand-embroidered reversible jackets from India. And yes, you'll also find some carefully curated chocolates for sale.

You could spend hours browsing the fine rugs and furnishings at this well-established shop. They stock custom Zapotec textiles from Oaxaca, Navajo weavings, Congolese kuba cloths, and carpets from Tibet, Morocco, and Afghanistan as well as fine arts and crafts tables, sofas, and chairs from around the world.