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Socorro, New Mexico

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Music in Socorro

Songs About Socorro

Socorro Wind
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"Socorro Wind"

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History of Socorro

Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge

1939

A wildlife refuge on the Rio Grande where tens of thousands of sandhill cranes and snow geese winter each year, creating one of the most spectacular wildlife gatherings in North America.

17.4 mi away

Things to Do in Socorro

Everything Near Socorro

9 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.

  • San Miguel de Socorro · 0.8 mi · Scraped Hmdb

    This church was built on the ruins of a 17th-century mission destroyed in a Pueblo revolt. Imagine, for a moment, a time before New Mexico was even a thought, when Spanish missionaries sought to establish their faith…

  • New Mexico Tech (School of Mines) · 0.8 mi · Things to Do

    Opened 1893 with 7 students. Now a top research university specializing in explosives and seismology.

  • San Miguel Mission · 0.9 mi · Things to Do

    Oldest church in Socorro (1615). Five-foot walls survived the Pueblo Revolt. Still holds Mass.

  • Socorro Magma Body & Earthquake Swarm · 0.9 mi · Things to Do

    A M6.5 quake struck in 1906. A magma body still lurks 12 miles down causing thousands of micro-quakes.

  • Lonnie Zamora UFO Incident · 1.8 mi · Things to Do

    A policeman saw an egg-shaped craft land here on April 24 1964. Project Blue Book never explained it.

  • Battle of Valverde · 15.9 mi · Things to Do

    Feb 21 1862: 5000 soldiers clashed on the Rio Grande — the Confederacy's pyrrhic gateway to New Mexico.

  • Bosque del Apache NWR · 17.1 mi · Things to Do

    FDR created this refuge in 1939. Each winter 10000 sandhill cranes and 30000 snow geese arrive.

  • Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge · 17.4 mi · Historical Marker

    A wildlife refuge on the Rio Grande where tens of thousands of sandhill cranes and snow geese winter each year, creating one of the most spectacular wildlife gatherings in North America.

  • Magdalena Livestock Driveway · 19.8 mi · Things to Do

    America's last great stock driveway: 125 miles of hooves from 1885 to 1971.

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