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Jonnyburns
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bahia asuncion to punta abreojos
Howdy fellows,
I'm looking for some info on driving from bahia asuncion to punta abreojos along the coast. The road on google maps is called Cam A Bahia Ascuncion.
Is it gnarly? I'm gunna be in a subaru without super high clearance, but it get get along pretty decent on rougher dirt roads. Would love to have some
info!
Thanks,
JB
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AKgringo
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The road is well used, and if you are lucky, at least parts of it will be fairly recently graded. I have driven it when it was a smooth sailing road,
and when parts of it were wash board from hell!
Unless there has been a recent storm it is passable for just about anything.
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
"Could do better if he tried!" Report card comments from most of my grade school teachers. Sadly, still true!
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BooJumMan
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Haven't driven it since 2009 but I remember hauling on that road in a 2WD 3500 Ram Van with 50psi in the tires rather easily.
In that pre-Google Earth and social media epoch, The Code was adhered to. It was based on a simple verity: if a locale had been transformational for
you, and you had put the hard yards in to get there and to learn it, to know it, why in god�s name would you broadcast the news, thus ruining the
future experience not only for yourself, but for future adventurers?
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vacaenbaja
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What ever you do do not stop below high tide or you may end up with
a stuck flooded car .
Someone made a nice video of some real good surf fishing along that
road. Real big peach etc. before he knew it his car was caught in the
waves. His truck never ran right after that but he did go back after
getting a new truck.
Believe it or not people have also died along that road due to
riding misfortunes while on motorcycles taking the humps a bit too
fast.
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David K
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Ditch Google Maps in Baja!
The road is wide, graded, 2WD, and usually fast. You go nowhere close to being in the high tide zone. This road parallels the coast but sadly keeps
far enough away that the you don't see the supreme beach along this way. Do not drove into the wet sand if you do take a side trip to the ocean. The
famous video is about a Toyota Tundra and the poor decision its owner made. It it rusting away at the Punta Prieta junk yard (L.A. Bay jcn.)
[Edited on 8-10-2023 by David K]
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pappy
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Was just there.its typical graded, washboard road- not too bad actually all they say to Hipolito.we were able to run salt/ mudflats ( nice and smooth)
for some ,Ike’s when leavin Hipolito. Road gets pretty darn rough last 4-5 miles before la bocana. After that paved to Abreojos. We were in full
size Chevy 4x4 trucks.
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pappy
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Took us around 2.5 hours if I recall correctly
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David K
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Sounds about right. In 2017, I recorded the Abreojos to Asunción distance at 50.4 miles.
Here is the page from my photo album with the road, includes some captions and my maps: https://vivabaja.com/p617/3/
This is page 3 of my June trip album: Leaving Mission Santa Gertrudis, going up to San Francisco de la Sierra, overnight at San Ignacio, then to Punta
Abreojos and up to Bahía Asunción.
More photos from that trip were posted here on Nomad and on Tacoma World in the trip reports section. The photos were preserved on Tacoma World but on
Nomad, they were only hot-linked to Photobucket which had since cancelled their honoring of the free photo hosting. That meant the photos were no
longer sized to fit Nomad and now have a big watermark across them. Here is the enhanced photo-filled trip report: https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/2017-baja-expedition-5-c...
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boe4fun
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Took the road with mi vecino in BA, Paul Camacho, this spring after our clinic in La Paz. I always like to take a couple of weeks for re-entry and to
unwind after the hectic clinics. Anyway, Paul hadn’t been on that road for years and years, so we took the whole day and drove to La Bocana
(dropping off some school supplies for Blanca’s friends and having lunch), then on to Punta Abreojos, eastward to Mex. 1, up to Vizcaino, and then
back to BA. Took most of the day and drove ~200 miles. The dirt portion of the trip had areas of washboard so bad that the plastic right rear
taillight assembly on my truck vibrated loose and fell off!
Two dirt roads diverged in Baja and I, I took the one less graveled by......
Soy ignorante, apático y ambivalente. No lo sé y no me importa, ni modo.
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Timo1
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Paving from Asuncion end to Punta Prieta is schedualed to start soon. The surveying has been completed
sold out and got out !!!
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Jonnyburns
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Wow, thank all of you so much for the info. Ya'll are legends!
Has anyone kept along the coast from Abreojos to Scorpion bay? I've heard it's not for the faint of heart / it's better to approach scorpion from the
south unless you've got a gnarly rig and some large kehones.
Yeehaw
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SFandH
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What are you driving?
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Bajazly
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And how oh so dreamy that will be.
Believing is religion - Knowing is science
Harald Pietschmann
"Get off the beaten path and memories, friends and new techniques are developed"
Bajazly, August 2019
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Easily doable in a UTV. A Jeep, etc. doable with about 12PSI.
Quote: Originally posted by Jonnyburns  | Wow, thank all of you so much for the info. Ya'll are legends!
Has anyone kept along the coast from Abreojos to Scorpion bay? I've heard it's not for the faint of heart / it's better to approach scorpion from the
south unless you've got a gnarly rig and some large kehones.
Yeehaw |
Udo
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Jonnyburns
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I'm in a crosstrek. Not the best offroad vehicle around, understandably. Does pretty well on stuff that's not super rutted out or rock gardens, of
course clearance is an issue.
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| Quote: Originally posted by Jonnyburns | | I'm in a crosstrek. Not the best offroad vehicle around, understandably. Does pretty well on stuff that's not super rutted out or rock gardens, of
course clearance is an issue. |
It's a relatively light AWD vehicle, that's good, IMHO. Carry a compressor so you can air down and then back up when needed.
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David K
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Be careful what you wish for!
Remember what Mama Espinoza said in 1973, when they paved the road through El Rosario, "Bad roads bring good people, good roads bring all
kinds of people".
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boe4fun
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| Quote: Originally posted by Udo | Easily doable in a UTV. A Jeep, etc. doable with about 12PSI.
Hey Udo,
If you start in Abreojos how do you traverse the entrance to San Ignacio Lagoon? Am I missing something? Is it passable at low tide? I’d love to
take mi hijo and mi yerno down on a “surfari” stopping at every break between BA and Scorpion Bay in my Zuki Samurai.
[Edited on 8-11-2023 by boe4fun] |
Two dirt roads diverged in Baja and I, I took the one less graveled by......
Soy ignorante, apático y ambivalente. No lo sé y no me importa, ni modo.
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Folks in Asuncion have been telling visitors unless ya have a truck or off road specific rig ya might not want to take that road right now. I imagine
if you aired down and took your time shouldn’t be an issue, but those last few miles before bocana, it’s rough so be prepared.
As for the road getting paved it will help citizens of both towns and Prieta and Hipolito make the commute between them for sure.
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David K
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| Quote: Originally posted by Jonnyburns | Wow, thank all of you so much for the info. Ya'll are legends!
Has anyone kept along the coast from Abreojos to Scorpion bay? I've heard it's not for the faint of heart / it's better to approach scorpion from the
south unless you've got a gnarly rig and some large kehones.
Yeehaw |
Take a look at a map, between Abreojos and San Juanico (Scorpion Bay) are huge lagoons. You begin the drive to San Juanico back at San Ignacio where a
paved road leaves town and runs for 30 miles then turns into a wide graded dirt road for 6 miles to San Ignacio Lagoon where the whale watching camps
begin. This dirt road also has a left fork that avoids the lagoon camps (signed San José de Gracia), 4.6 miles after the pavement's end. The distance
from the lagoon to San Juanico is 61 miles or about 107 miles from San Ignacio.
Want to see my maps that show these roads?: https://vivabaja.com/davids-2018-maps/
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