Website courtesy of the Socorro County Historical Society (SCHS), P.O. Box 921, Socorro, New Mexico 87801 [
SCHS home page]
The Socorro Desert Ratts exploring and mapping a segment of El Camino Real trail north of Socorro near the Alamillo arroyo
An informal group of trail enthusiasts in the Socorro, NM area
dedicated to documenting and preserving the historic trail,
trail related sites, and other historic or cultural sites of interest
(l–r) Tom Harper, Paul Harden, Dr. Peggy Hardman, Dr. David Love
and Craig H.
and a couple of others not shown
MEMBERSHIP REQUIREMENTS:
1. Must have absolutely nothing else to do on select
weekends.
2. Enjoy
"boots-on-the-ground" field work.
3. Have a 4WD for crossing the river, driving up arroyos,
and
works real good in deep sand, occasional mud.
4. Willing to spend 6 hours or more out on the Jornada
del Muerto on a 100+ degree day.
5. Must have a truly strange sense of humor and
tolerance for bantering
and other forms of abuse.
6. Must not be allergic to copious amounts of trail dust,
stinky gramma grass
or creosote bushes.
7. Get really excited finding a straight stretch of dirt
trail out in the middle
of nowhere.
8. Ability to recognize wagon swales from 2-track roads,
pipelines, arroyos, cattle
trails and wallows.
9. Have a true appreciation for the historic El Camino
Real trail and the thousands
of colonists that traveled
the very ground you are standing, Piro pueblos, ghost
towns, old
mines, and other historic or cultural
features.
The Socorro Desert Ratt gang
Gateway
Desert Ratts
Preserving and documenting
El Camino Real and Socorro County History
Socorro, New Mexico, USA
Socorro County Historical Society
The Camino Real Mapping Project
on these web pages
is the exclusive work of the
members of the
Socorro County Historical Society
and other volunteers
dedicated to documenting, mapping, photographing and preserving
the
historic trail
and other historic sites
