2 Best Shopping in Truchas, Day Trips from Santa Fe

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.

For more than a half-century, this gallery attached to a rambling adobe home with sweeping mountain views has carried works by some of northern New Mexico's leading artists, including painter Alvaro Cardona-Hine, furniture-makers Larry and Nancy Buechley, and sculptor and painter Sheila Mahoney Keefe. Visitors are asked to call first to make an appointment.