Planning Your Visit
Socorro's New Mexico Tech campus produces mining and engineering graduates. The Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope — a National Historic Landmark — is the world's most powerful radio telescope complex. The Bosque del Apache's sandhill crane and snow goose migration in November is one of the Southwest's great natural spectacles.
A Closer Look
Socorro is home to the Socorro County Fair, which celebrates a Rio Grande valley county where New Mexico Tech (Institute of Mining and Technology), the Very Large Array radio telescope array, and the vast Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge define a community of scientists, ranchers, and birders in the high Chihuahuan Desert.
Fair Highlights
Expect livestock shows, 4-H competitions, local food vendors, rodeo events, and a fair serving the diverse Socorro community of students, researchers, and ranching families.
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