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[*] posted on 11-20-2024 at 02:45 PM
Campground south of El Rosario


A week ago we drove a pretty good dirt road the 6+ miles west of Highway 1, just a few yards south of KM 82 to a place that David K had written about in a 2017 Baja Bound article. There was supposed to be a camp area there with cabins to rent, some tent sites and great scenery.

The cabins were there, scenery along the drive was great - some really dense Cardon areas. The "tent" sites were simple palapas - really unusable as they were filled with heavy growth of weeds.

The lone caretaker asked 600 pesos for a cabin. Since it was cool and very windy we took a look. Didn't seem that the cabins had been cleaned in a long time. Rodent poop on the beds and all over the table(s) and all along the baseboards. Two cabins had a single mattress and the third cabin had two beds.

The grounds of the area haven't been kept up in a long time. We decided not to stay. The return trip to the highway reinforced the great diversity of cactus in the area but presented no great camping spots until we were within earshot of the highway.

Disappointed, but not surprised since we've not found any other post about this place more recent than 2018. At the time of David's article the name was Rancho El Sauce.

Below is a photo from David's Baja Bound article. There are some similarities to what is there now.

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[*] posted on 11-20-2024 at 03:02 PM


Too bad it wasn't maintained. It was popular with locals during Semana Santa, I heard. Antonio took Doug's (Baja Nomad) family there years before my visit. They were impressed. On my visit, there were three caretakers, as I recall. It was March, so before any Easter crowds.

So, where did you go next?




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[*] posted on 11-20-2024 at 04:57 PM
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Starting to get dark and wind was picking up - we turned off around Km 131 - I think it's the road to Puerto Santa Catarina - went in a little ways to some little protection. Around 40 degrees overnight and constant wind blowing. Those cabins would have been more fun.

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[*] posted on 11-20-2024 at 05:22 PM
Pretty much nothing remains unchanged


The longer I live, the more things change. That's tough for a guy who is into nostalgia, lol!

Here is my Baja Bound article: A Surprise Desert Campground Near El Rosario >>>

https://www.bajabound.com/bajaadventures/bajatravel/rancho_e...

Here is Doug's trip report with photos, in 2006: https://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=21098

Here was my 2017 trip report, lots of photos (El Sauce is near the bottom): https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/2017-baja-expedition-3-m...
[I posted the same report here and on Tacoma World, since the photos were preserved on Tacoma World (when Photobucket stopped honoring their deal) but not on Nomad, that is the link]





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