Romantic Things To Do in Socorro, New Mexico

The HAMMEL MUSEUM started as a beer garden and, in the intervening century, became successively a brewery, an ice plant, a soda bottling plant, and finally ended as an active industry still making ice. - The museum structure was built ... More on MuseumStuff.com

The Mineral Museum in Socorro has mineral and mining specimens from around the world. Established in 1889, the ... More on PlanetWare

The Hammel Museum began as the Illinois Brewing Company, it now houses an historical museum featuring ... More on PlanetWare

Run by the New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, this museum has the largest geological collection in the state. Its more than 10,000 specimens include ... More on Frommers

This museum, opened in 2005, tells the story of El Camino Real, the 1,500-mile international trade route from Mexico to San Juan Pueblo, near Santa Fe. The impressive $5-million, 20,000-square-foot structure, set in the middle ... More on Frommers

The San Miguel Mission in Socorro was built around 1820 on the ruins of an earlier mission. It underwent ... More on PlanetWare

The grounds are lovely, as well as the church. More on TripAdvisor

Head out of Socorro, west, towards Magdalena on highway 60. After about 15 miles, watch for the "Water Canyon Campground sign on the right side of the road. Turn left up Water Canyon Road.Where the... More on trails.mtbr.com

Stay off Dead horse trail... brutally ugly, and no way out but back the way you came (or a loooooonnnngggg hike-a bike). More on trails.mtbr.com

The VLA is one of the world's premier astronomical radio observatories. It consists of 27 antennas arranged... More on DogFriendly.com

A huge array of radio telescopes featured in the movie Contact with Jodie Foster. More on GeckoGo