Be sure to visit www.santafetrail.org/geocaching to learn about the PASSPORT ACTIVITY to accompany this Geo Tour. This cache is part of the larger Santa Fe Trail GeoTour: santafetrail.org/geocaching
Welcome to the area of headquarters of the National Park Service, National Trails Intermountain Region, 1100 Old Santa Fe Trail, Santa Fe, NM. The staff at this NPS office collaborate with partners to provide leadership and coordination in the planning, protection, development, and interpretation of the Santa Fe National Historic Trail. The Santa Fe Trail Association is one of those partners.
The National Historic Trails System, established by the National Trails System Act of 1968, commemorates historic routes and promotes their preservation and development for public use. National Historic Trails recognize diverse facets of history such as prominent past routes of exploration, migration, trade, communication, and military action. The historic trails generally consist of remnant sites and trail segments, and thus are not necessarily contiguous.
The Santa Fe National Historic Trail was established in 1987 and the NPS and the SFTA work together to administer this 1,203 mile long National Historic Trail.
The building that houses the Intermountain Support Office of the National Park Service was designated a National Landmark in 1987. It is a masterpiece of Pueblo Revival architecture and is one of the largest adobe office buildings in the US. This building was designed by NPS architect Cecil J. Doty, taking counsel from John Gaw Meem. The design is a magnificent Southwestern Spanish-Pueblo Revival-style masterpiece, and they also designed furniture that was made in the building, for the building, and envisioned paintings and other works of art specifically for the building. The building is а traditional adobe building, one-story except fоr а double-height entrance area and contains exposed timber vigas аnd adobe bricks. It was constructed оn site by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1937-39 with furnishings, artwork and engineering features provided by the men and women of the Work Projects Administration. Numerous works of art were acquired under the WPA Arts Program specifically to go in the building.
Address : 1100 Old Santa Fe Trail USA - Santa Fe NM 87505-0360
Phone : 575-988-6011
Admission: free of charge
Hours: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except for National Holidays.
For more informaiton about the headquarters staff and offices, see: http://www.nps.gov/safe/parkmgmt/staffandoffices.htm
For more infomration about NPS and the Santa Fe National Historic Trail see: http://www.nps.gov/safe/index.htm
Containers on the Santa Fe National Historic Trail Geo Tour are military ammunition canisters, or Brochure-Holder boxes, with an identifying Santa Fe Trail Association yellow sticker on the top of the box, under the handle and the dark green geocaching.com ID is on the side of the boxes with the information that provides coordinates, who set the cache and who to contact for information. Each cache contains a logbook to sign, a variety of items that provide information about the Santa Fe Trail as well as swag items. If you are participating in the Passport activity, the code word is located on the inside of the box, on the top of the lid and is clearly identified as Code Word. Permission to set caches has been obtained. We ask that all cachers please respect all property at the sites where our caches are set.