🇲🇽Roads in Mexico
2 roads found in Mexico, North America
Baja Highway 1 (Transpeninsular Highway)
🇲🇽 Mexico
Baja Highway 1, officially the Carretera Transpeninsular, runs 1,711 kilometers from Tijuana at the US-Mexico border to Cabo San Lucas at the tip of the Baja California Peninsula. Completed in 1973, this was the first paved road to traverse the entire length of the peninsula, opening up one of North America's last great frontier landscapes to road trippers. The highway crosses some of the most stark and beautiful desert scenery on the continent, from the wine country of Valle de Guadalupe to the otherworldly boulder fields of the Central Desert, where massive cardon cacti (the world's largest) stand sentinel. Along the way, travelers can detour to the Pacific coast for world-class surfing, visit ancient cave paintings in the Sierra de San Francisco, or stop at the magical lagoons of Guerrero Negro where grey whales calve each winter. The Sea of Cortez side offers pristine beaches and some of the best sport fishing in the world.
Copper Canyon Road (Barrancas del Cobre)
🇲🇽 Mexico
The road system through Mexico's Copper Canyon region in the Sierra Madre Occidental of Chihuahua state offers one of North America's most dramatic driving adventures. The canyon system is actually a network of six interconnected canyons that are collectively deeper and larger than the Grand Canyon. The main driving route from Creel to Batopilas descends over 1,800 meters through a series of tight switchbacks. The Creel-to-Batopilas road is roughly 140 kilometers of winding mountain highway that drops from the cool pine forests of the Sierra Tarahumara at 2,340 meters into the subtropical depths of Batopilas Canyon. The road was only paved in recent years and still features harrowing cliff-edge sections without guardrails. Along the way, drivers pass through indigenous Raramuri (Tarahumara) communities and witness one of the most extreme ecological transitions accessible by road, from alpine conifers to tropical palms in just a few hours.