PaulW
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Arroyo San Pedro
Day 2 - 1/19/1 8 From LAB
Arroyo San Pedro We stated from LAB. Rich calls the track the Green door loop which crosses the huge wash twice called “Arroyo San Pedro” then
back to the LAB to El Barril road. Then we drove to Beto’s place and spent the night in our tents.
Details: trail leaves the LAB/El Barril road at about 28 40.77, -113 25.554 with a right turn.
Then returns to the LAB/ El Barril road at 28 26.3, 113 10.7.
Beto beach camping location is at 28 25.482, -112 51.987
See the road on the Almanac. Road condition is good except crossing the arroyo required route finding and driving over logs and big rocks. Steep slope
to enter the arroyo. A GPS track was required to find the road after each of the arroyo crossings. It took all day to make the trip. Below is the 10
minute Inreach image for the trip.
I have attached the .USR GPS file to allow the reader to convert to a .GPX or Google Earth .KML file
Pictures will have to follow later.
Attachment: S Pedro Rd.usr (2kB)
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David K
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Great to hear it is passable still! There used to be green car door with decals at the north end. Paulina has a photo of it. I have not driven it
since 2002. This was the road created or re-opened by the Erle Stanley Gardner 1966 expedition featured in his book, Off the Beaten Track in Baja. The
1973 Baja 1000 used it as this was before the graded road was built in the 80s. It is popular with motorcycle riders and featured in Kacey Smith's
book.
Thanks for the report Paul!
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PaulW
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Rich T. said the Green door disappeared years ago.
Hence the new name "Arroyo San Pedro"
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David K
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The area is also called Valle La Bocana. Arroyo San Pedro comes out of the mountains via La Bocana (the ranch just inside the canyon there. The Baja
Almanac map misnames it as Rancho San Pedro (which is actually a few miles up the canyon/ arroyo). The tallest cardón trees in Baja are in Valle La
Bocana.
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David K
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Paulina's photo of the Green Door
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Thanks for posting I have been wanting to ride this for years...
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