From town it is a twenty min drive when the weather is good. Located high in the mountains Santa Fe recieves large dumps of snow making it a good powder area. The mounatin itself has vairied terrain from beginner to advanced. When snow permits there is also unlimited sking in the Big Tesque area, but you have to find a ride back to the lifts since this is not a lift serviced area yet. Santa Fe also has a freestyle snowboard park located at mid mountain.
Holidays are also a bad time to be on the mountain.
Santa Fe has lots of good terain for every ability from Beginner to advanced. In addition it also has many inbounds out of bounds style runs that are non-lift served. Some of the better cruising runs are Parachute, Middland and Gayway. If you have good snow the night before then get up there for the first runs and head for the triple chair or poma to the top. A section of the mountain called The Burn makes for excellent powder turns, but you have to get there early or it'll all be gone.