Labyrinth at Santa Fe Railyard Park

In Santa Fe's Railyard Park, the city's great recent civic landscape, a permanent labyrinth lies in the park's gardens, walked by locals between the market and the galleries. The Labyrinth Locator's record lists it as a classical design modified to six circuits; installed fall 2008.

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

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

Photo: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Railyard_Park_Conservancy.jpg), CC BY-SA.