Public Labyrinth, Moon Mountain

In Santa Fe, a permanent public labyrinth sits in the city's south side neighborhood ground on the Monte Luna trail, one of the community walks the Labyrinth Resource Group's network seeded across the city. The Labyrinth Locator's record lists it as a contemporary spiral design, with rocks decreasing in size as the path moves inward.

Every labyrinth is a walking practice, not a puzzle: a single path winds to a center and back out, and the walk is done slowly, as prayer or meditation. The pattern descends from the medieval pavement labyrinth at Chartres, and the modern urban revival began in the 1990s when Lauren Artress brought replicas of that path to American congregations and public grounds through Veriditas and the Labyrinth Society, whose World-Wide Labyrinth Locator now catalogs thousands. There is no branching and no trick to the path; walkers of every religion and none use it.

Visiting

labyrinthlocator.org carries the site's own information and schedule.