Socorro County, New Mexico
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- Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge — Wildlife · Socorro County, NM
Premier Rio Grande flyway refuge south of Socorro—winter gatherings of sandhill cranes, snow geese, and waterfowl draw global birders to managed wetlands and…
- Carthage — Ghost Town · Socorro County, NM
Coal mining company town south of Socorro that once supplied locomotive fuel on the Rio Grande corridor. When coal demand faded, Carthage emptied into founda…
- Fort Craig Historic Site — Historic · Socorro County, NM
One of the largest 19th-century frontier forts on the Rio Grande, established 1854. Self-guided trail through adobe ruins, parade ground, and cemetery interp…
- Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array — Historic · Socorro County, NM
Iconic radio astronomy observatory of twenty-seven 82-foot dish antennas in a Y-shaped array on the high desert Plains of San Agustin west of Socorro. Public…
- Kelly — Ghost Town · Socorro County, NM
Silver–lead–zinc mining camp in the Magdalena Mountains south of Magdalena. After 1870s discoveries the district boomed; mill foundations, stone walls, and t…
- Magdalena — Historic · Socorro County, NM
Living historic mining and stock-shipping town at the foot of the Magdalena Mountains, once the railhead for the Kelly mining district and a major cattle-dri…
- Quebradas Backcountry Byway — Natural · Socorro County, NM
BLM scenic byway (~24 mi unpaved) through colorful badlands, arroyos, and desert mesas east of Socorro—red and white sedimentary bluffs, wide basin views, an…
- Riley — Ghost Town · Socorro County, NM
Rio Salada settlement north of Magdalena with adobe school, church, and cemetery remnants. Classic Socorro-county ghost for ranch-and-mining hinterland roads…
- San Lorenzo Canyon — Natural · Socorro County, NM
BLM/USFWS primitive canyon northwest of Socorro with sculpted sandstone cliffs, arches, hoodoos, and cottonwood bottoms. Millions of years of sedimentary sec…
- San Marcial — Ghost Town · Socorro County, NM
Once Socorro County’s second-largest town, about 1,400 people by 1929, a Rio Grande farm and Santa Fe Railroad / Harvey House community south of Socorro. Cat…
- Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge — Wildlife · Socorro County, NM
Large middle-Rio Grande refuge where Chihuahuan Desert, Great Plains grassland, Colorado Plateau shrub-steppe, and piñon-juniper meet along the river corrido…
- South Baldy — Geology · Socorro County, NM
High summit of the Magdalena Mountains south of Socorro, a classic central-New Mexico peak destination with ridge geology and sky-island forest. Geology/summ…