Let's have a look just at the 1955 AAA map. [Taken from a thread that also included the 1962 map and other sidebar discussion]
This map does not clearly differentiate between a paved road and a dirt road. The 1951 guidebook has the road paved to Arroyo Grande ('oiled macadam',
is how it is worded) which is just north of Colonet. That was the end of pavement throughout the 1960s, as well.
The San Felipe road is called "a good oil-mix surface" in 1951.
No pavement until the town of La Paz and then dirt again, on south.
The 1959 guide says the paving reached 105 miles north from La Paz (about where it was in 1966, too).
Despite the Mexico Federal Highway names, these were all dirt roads in 1955. The road south of La Paz was a single lane dirt track, grading began 10
years later.[/rquote]BajaTed - 12-7-2019 at 01:51 PM
David,
On the first map pic by Punta Salsipuedes there is a notation about Mission San Miguel.
Knowing that area, are the mission ruins are up around the coastal mountain ridge or on the inland plains??? Anything left of the mission? David K - 12-7-2019 at 02:24 PM
David,
On the first map pic by Punta Salsipuedes there is a notation about Mission San Miguel.
Knowing that area, are the mission ruins are up around the coastal mountain ridge or on the inland plains??? Anything left of the mission?
They are in the La Misión town schoolyard, Km. 65.5 on the free-road.
La Misión gets its name form "the mission". See the mission/ church symbol along the highway? More mission details, GPS, history in my book or on my
Baja Missions web pages: http://www.vivabaja.com/missions1/
Here's my newer area map with mission locations:
[Edited on 8-10-2021 by David K]BajaTed - 12-7-2019 at 03:12 PM
Thanks David, I now recognize the area. The cliffs in the background has a very steep old trail that comes down from the ridge top that the locals
call the "old stagecoach road". Its near the south side of the bridge across the river by La Magana's.
I can maybe imagine it once went to the mission?? David K - 12-7-2019 at 04:59 PM
Well, in one of my books in my collection, the author comments about being able to walk up from the town of La Misión on the Camino Real. Highway One
was built further east, easier for automobiles to climb up. Mules don't need such luxuries.
