Santa Fe Plaza and Buffalo Thunder Resort-Casino
Museums, Shops, Golf, Gaming & Spa Treatments in and Around Santa Fe
May 25, 2009
While the areas outside of Santa Fe lend themselves to extended outdoor adventure, Santa Fe itself is ideally suited to sedate vacation pleasures involving shopping, golf, browsing museums and partaking of luxury spa treatments. Additionally, Santa Fe is well known for jewelry and southwestern apparel shops and its numerous art galleries displaying the work of local and national artists. Visitors to Santa Fe find themselves immersed in a visually stunning community that is dedicated to helping them enjoy a relaxing vacation at their own pace, and in their own style.
Shopping, Dining and Museums in and Around the Santa Fe Plaza
The Plaza is the sentimental if not geographic center of Santa Fe. It is an excellent place for visitors to get their bearings and begin exploring Santa Fe. In addition to just being a lovely and sedate park, The Palace of the Governors lies alongside the Plaza and many of Santa Fe’s best museums, arts & crafts and jewelry shops are within easy strolling distance.
While many of the shops on and around the Plaza are filled with handmade jewelry, paintings, sculpture and clothing from local designers and artists, one of the area’s signature attractions is just a short walk from the Plaza. The Georgia O’Keefe Museum sits a few blocks off of the Plaza and offers unique insights into the life, process and works of this modern master.
Originally constructed as the seat of government for, what is today the American Southwest, today the Palace of the Governors is the New Mexico state history museum and houses museum collections, archives and exhibits related to Santa Fe and New Mexico history. The building itself is a registered National Historic Landmark and was named an American Treasure in 1999.
Less than a mile from the Plaza, the shops and galleries of Canyon Road represent, to many, the cream of the Santa Fe shopping crop. While Canyon Road galleries such as the Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery and the Adobe Gallery carry, sculpture, painting, pottery and photography from the 19th century through the contemporary period, the area is also home to a host of shops specializing in southwestern jewelry, fashion and décor.
Resorts Casinos & Golfing in Santa Fe
There are numerous resorts, casinos, and golf courses in the Santa Fe area. But a new resort just north of town offers all three of these getaway staples in a uniquely southwestern pueblo-themed environment that blends luxury and classic styling. The new Buffalo Thunder Resort & Casino complex offers its guests the opportunity to be pampered in the extreme, both physically and emotionally.
Buffalo Thunder offers shows, gaming, 36 holes of world-class golf, and fine dining all on property. Additionally, the resort’s signature spa services include a full range of massage therapies, facials, body scrubs, as well as relaxation and wellness programs.
The resort is decorated in the traditional pueblo style, and boasts hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of original art works ranging from sculptures, and paintings to original pueblo artifacts. Buffalo Thunder hosts events from small intimate gatherings to large corporate parties, and also offers shows featuring nationally renowned performers. Beneath the main resort level sits a casino that includes 1,200 slot machines, 22 table games, and a 10-table poker room.
Between the art, history, and shopping possibilities of the Santa Fe Plaza area and the golf, gaming and spa facilities at the new Buffalo Thunder Resort & Casino, visitors to northern New Mexico who want to spend a few days shopping, golfing, museum touring or basking in the lap of luxury can do it all in Santa Fe.
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