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[*] posted on 7-14-2022 at 10:17 AM
Want to see the mission road, El Camino Real? Here's where it is:


Locations where the old trail crosses or joins with modern roads are the subject of a special page: https://vivabaja.com/ecr-crossings/

Here are the locations if you do not wish to to click the link above...

El Camino Real Highway Crossings

The El Camino Real between Loreto and El Rosario has been accurately located by the team of Kevin Branscum and Genevieve Mattar following twenty years of intense backpacking on the mission road. They have followed the research made by Harry Crosby published in the 1970s and Howard Gulick in the 1950s in hopes to create an exact placement of the old trail with GPS and Google Earth. Their website details the work: http://caminorealbaja.com/

In 2021, Benchmark Maps published the Baja California Road & Recreation Atlas. The Camino Real route, from Kevin and Genevieve’s research, is shown in the new Atlas. The Atlas also shows the kilometer marker points on all of Baja California’s highways.

Here is a list of where the old mission road crosses or joins with modern roads, from north to south:

Km. 58.5 (Hwy. 1, El Rosario)
Km. 129.5 (Hwy. 1)
Km. 166 (Hwy. 5)
Km. 178-179 (Hwy. 5, by Coco’s Corner)
Km. 29 (L.A. Bay Hwy.)
Km. 75 & 77 (Hwy. 1, San Ignacio, two trails)
Km. 0 (Laguna San Ignacio road)
Km. 114.5 (Hwy. 53, La Purísima)
Km. 6-25 (San Javier Hwy. in, over, or parallel with El Camino Real).

GPS waypoints on dirt roads at approximate El Camino Crossings or Junctions (WGS 84):

30° 0′ 59.6″ N 115° 32′ 9.3″ W (Punta San Carlos Road)
29° 55′ 12.3″ N 114° 56′ 19.9″ W (El Mármol Road)
29° 46′ 29.3″ N 114° 38′ 18.6″ W (Mission Santa María Road)
29° 32′ 34.2″ N 114° 16′ 26.6″ W (Puerto Calamajué Road)
29° 25′ 28.6″ N 114° 11′ 59.2″ W (Arroyo Calamajué Road)
29° 15′ 43.9″ N 114° 8′ 22.6″ W (El Crucero Road)
29° 12′ 56.6″ N 114° 3′ 4.2″ W (Rancho San Luis Road)
28° 55′ 7.9″ N 113° 48′ 40.7″ W (San Borja Road)
28° 51′ 37.7″ N 113° 47′ 39.9″ W (San Borja Road)
28° 47′ 28.9″ N 113° 45′ 46.2″ W (San Borja Road)
28° 8′ 51.9″ N 113° 16′ 14.9″ W (El Arco-Pta. S. Francisquito Road)
28° 7′ 21.1″ N 113° 13′ 45.9″ W (Guillermo Prieto Road)
28° 3′ 44.6″ N 113° 6′ 27.6″ W (Santa Gertrudis Road)

In the webpage https://vivabaja.com/ecr-crossings are links to photos and links to El Camino Real maps from Harry Crosby and more.

In the photo below, the El Camino Real and old auto road can be seen across the canyon from the new San Javier highway.




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