Socorro:

The city of Socorro, the Spanish word for succor or assistance, lies on Interstate 25, 75 miles south of Albuquerque, in the fertile Rio Grande valley. When Spanish colonists traveling north through the area under the leadership of Don Juan de Onate arrived at the Pueblo village called Teypana, they were welcomed by the Indians and given a large gift of corn. The grateful immigrants bestowed the name of Socorro on the place.

The town is the county seat of Socorro County, the third largest in New Mexico. It not only serves a wide ranging agricultural and ranching community, it is also the home of New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, widely-known as New Mexico Tech. The campus serves as the home base of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, which operates the Very Large Array radio telescopes on the Plains of San Augustin. Socorro also hosts the thousands of visitors to the nearby Bosque del Apache Wildlife Refuge.

The acclaim accorded to New Mexico Tech for its advances in mining, engineering, geology and other sciences has drawn major research facilities to the area. In addition to serving as the headquarters for the National Radio Astronomy Observatorys Very Large Array, the campus provides a home for the lightning research facility of Langmuir Lab. Techs golf course is on the list of ten best public courses in New Mexico.

How to reach Socorro from Albquerque?

INSA works hard to help all new coming member to reach safely at Socorro from Albquerque Airport. Socorro is situated at 78 miles from Albquerque. The mode of transportation from Albquerque to Socorro is either through rental taxi or bus service.

Based on timing availability and prior information INSA members either pickup newcomers from Airport by their own cars or arrange for taxi at airport. Basic information like flight details i.e. Flight no., timing of arrival, your good name are required in order to book taxi. We generally get the service of Socorro Taxi for airport pickup service.

Note:You should have telephone contact detail of atleast one INSA member. So that while you are arriving to US we can have contact with you and can make travel arrangement.

This is one of the convenient method of travel from Albquerque to Socorro. Generally they charge inbetween $56 - $80 and they need prior booking, so this requires proper flight information from you and your consent to book the taxi for you.

Apart from this Greyhound bus service is also available from Albquerque to Socorro. In order to reach Greyhound bus depo, you need to pick city bus from airport and go to Greyhound bus depo. From Greyhound bus depo bus for Socorro is at 16:00 and 23:00 hrs. They generally charge about $20 -$28. But this is not convenient way as you would be having lot of luggage. So just take this as another option only. Best and advisable is taxi.