Kind of off the topic, but looking at the route, I noticed the zoo road accesso near San Felipe. Is there a Zoo near San Felipe? Interesting mix of
Spanish and English.David K - 6-26-2015 at 02:23 PM
Kind of off the topic, but looking at the route, I noticed the zoo road accesso near San Felipe. Is there a Zoo near San Felipe? Interesting mix of
Spanish and English.
It's a name from racers back in the 70's... There was a curio shop along Hwy. 5 (next to the Campo Pai Pai road, I believe and not far from Pete's
Camp El Paraiso road) that had metal and/or wood carvings in the shapes of different animals for sale. It was the closest thing to a zoo near San
Felipe!
Someone racing or pitting called the road that cut across to the Ensenada-San Felipe dirt road 'Zoo Road' because it was close to that curio shop they
called the San Felipe Zoo.PaulW - 6-28-2015 at 08:35 AM
David is correct, however there is no record from the old timers where the curio place was actually located.
Zoo Road name was adopted for the road heading west thru El Dorado ranch. That is the road that heads west at the PMEX past the fancy El Dorado
entrance. The proper name for that road is actually Saltitio Springs Road, after the dried up spring along the way. Locals use both names, but is
seems Saltito dominate.
After all the the development the El Dorado management created a parallel access road to minimize the traffic thru the ranch. That new road begins a
few KM south at the Storage facility and leads to the power line and our old Zoo road. The new road has a sign naming it Morelia road.
Such it is.
PaulDavid K - 6-28-2015 at 09:52 AM
The curio shop was there for years, and this was before any El Dorado development. The original 'Zoo Road' was just a two track desert road, not
graded, as it is today.
I included it on my 1988 map:
Most of the zoo road in 1980:
On a recent AAA Map: rts551 - 6-28-2015 at 03:58 PM
Driver of a class 7s truck died after hitting a rock trying to pass another vehicle.dtbushpilot - 6-28-2015 at 04:19 PM
That's tragic rts, where did you get the info, do you have a link to it?rts551 - 6-28-2015 at 04:29 PM
