Labyrinth at Alto Street Playground

On Santa Fe's west side at the Alto Street playground, a permanent neighborhood labyrinth sits in the park, walked by the families who use the playground daily. The Labyrinth Locator's record lists it as Classical; recorded as installed around 1995, which would make it one of the revival's earliest public walks in the Southwest.

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.