Home & Garden Tours

Santa Fe’s oldest and most prestigious Home and Garden Tours

Behind Adobe Walls™ Tours

July 14 and 21, 2020

Tickets on sale Jan. 15th

The Santa Fe Garden Club celebrates its 81st year hosting Santa Fe’s prestigious Behind Adobe Walls Home and Garden Tours. The 2020 tours will feature four unique homes and gardens each week. On July 14th and 21st guests will experience the unique beauty that is so characteristic of Santa Fe on this hostess-guided bus tour while visiting four seldom seen, private homes and gardens on Santa Fe’s oldest home and garden tour. Selected homes will highlight extraordinary art collections, as well as a variety of architectural styles and high desert gardens. Guests will gather at the Eldorado Hotel where they can enjoy an Epicurean Buffet Lunch prior to boarding buses for the tour.

Event proceeds benefit the Santa Fe Garden Club’s community education, beautification, and conservation projects including the Santa Fe Botanical Garden Ojos y Manos Learning Laboratory, and the New Mexico Museum of Art, recipient of the recently re-designed Courtyard Garden, a legacy gift to the Santa Fe community.

Behind Adobe Walls is grateful for support from Santa Fe businesses that have generously donated to underwrite the tours.

Since 1940 guests have enjoyed Santa Fe’s oldest and most prestigious Home & Garden Tour on the 3rd and 4th Tuesday of July. Guests board SFGC hostess-guided buses at noon and visit four unique, seldom-seen private residences each week. Refreshments are served at each delightful garden on the tour. Regrettably, these tours are not ADA accessible. Walking is required. Tickets are fully tax deductible, non-refundable and changes to tour dates are not allowed, but you may transfer a ticket to another person.

Purchase Tour and Lunch Tickets

On the day of the tour, there are often tickets available. We will release tickets on the day of the tour in the order of people’s arrival time. Numbers will be given out at the registration desk beginning at 10:30 am.

Guests board buses at Eldorado Hotel, 309 W. San Francisco. City parking lots at corner of W. San Francisco and Sandoval streets.

10:30 am – 11:45 am Registration
10:30 am to Noon – Lunch – Reservations required
12:00 pm – Guests Board Buses
12:15 pm – 4:45 pm Guided Bus Tour

$85 per person—each tour
New! Epicurean Buffet Lunch: Chilled soup, chicken, shrimp, grilled veggies and beverage.
$30 Lunch, tax and tip included

Call 505-216-0908 for tour information
Call 505-995-4561 or 800-955-4455 for hotel reservations.
Mention “Behind Adobe Walls” Group Code 190712GARDEN for July 16 and Group Code 190719GARDEN for July 23

Pequeño (Small) Tours

Mid April through Mid October

The small and private Pequeño Home & Garden Tours are offered mid-April through mid-October and provide entry into some of Santa Fe’s finest homes and gardens. Small groups enjoy up to three beautiful residences on a 3-4 hour tour hosted by Santa Fe Garden Club members.
Each tour includes narrated descriptions of the homes as well as stories of historic Santa Fe. Groups arrange their own transportation—van or small (29 passengers) bus. Assistance in securing transportation will be provided. For more information about reservations, please call 505-984-0022.

Groups arrange their own transportation, van or small (29 passenger) bus.
Assistance will be provided.$50 per person—each tour.
Minimum of 10 guests or $500.
Maximum of 29 guests.

For Reservations Call 505-984-0022

Proceeds from the tours benefit the Santa Fe Garden Club’s education, beautification and conservation projects, including New Mexico Museum of Art Courtyard Garden and the Santa Fe Botanical Garden.

Community Impact