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David K
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MORE ROAD LOGS
Here are road log sections of my July, 2012 trip report:
PUERTECITOS SOUTH:
Sunday, July 15, 2012
0.0 Puertecitos Junction (Km. 74/75)
5.0 Playa Cristina
6.1 La Costilla
14.7 (Km. 99/100) wide turnout with the view of the Enchanted Islands
25.5 (Km. 117) Okie Landing (a fishing ‘resort’ from the 1960’s with just concrete slabs remaining)
The pavement ended just north of here one year ago (July, 2011).
The end of pavement this trip is at Mile 31.3, just beyond Km. 126. That is almost 6 miles (10 km.) added in one year. This is no rush job, but the
quality of the highway is fantastic, with a 110 kph (~70 mph) speed limit.
31.9 Campo Delfines
36.6 Punta Bufeo
41.7 Papa Fernandez’
42.8 Military checkpoint
44.2 Pemex gas station/ Alfonsina’s road/ Rancho Grande store
We topped the gas tank at Gonzaga Bay. Trip odometer reset to 0.
0.0 Gonzaga Pemex
7.2 Las Palmitas oasis/ El Camino Real access (reported washed out in 2014, use track in Arroyo at mile 4.7)
13.9 the first boojum (cirio) trees
22.4 Coco’s Corner
There are two roads southbound from Coco’s Corner, the most used one is the main road to Highway #1 at Laguna Chapala (12.7 miles) which is graded and
will be the route or close to the route of the future paved highway.
The other goes through Calamajue (say: ‘Cal-a-ma-WAY’) canyon is was the main route south before 1983 when the graded road from Laguna Chapala was
completed. For several miles the road and the year-round stream of mineralized water are one in the same. The Baja 1000 race often uses the Calamajue
route, and that often creates a difficult drive until nature repairs the damage.
0.0 Coco's Corner, turn east, off 'Hwy. 5'
6.3 take road going south (right fork). Left is a graded road that continues to the Sea of Cortez (also called the Gulf of California) at Puerto
Calamajue.
12.9 arrive at the top edge of the Calamajue river gorge. To the left here are ruins of a gold ore processing mill from the early 1900’s. The road
ahead drops to the valley floor.
13.1 faint track goes to the left and climbs up the opposite river bank (0.4 mile) to the first site of the 17th Spanish California mission, founded
in 1766. Only there for a few months, the mission was moved because the water was far too salted with minerals to grow any crops. The new location was
given the name Santa Maria de los Angeles and the first location has typically only been known as Calamajue, the local native Indian name (however one
Jesuit missionary wrote that it was first called Nuestra Señora de Columna).
21.1 from Coco’s Corner (not including the side trip to the mission) out of the canyon and pass the access road to Highway 1 at Km. 251. This cut
across road was built in 1973 during the building of Highway 1 to get water, needed for compaction of the roadbed. The next 6.9 miles are mostly slow
because of the whoops (short, deep bumps) usually created by race traffic.
28.0 from Coco's Corner: After passing Rancho El Crucero, opening the gate across the road (and closing it behind us), we reach Highway 1 at Km.
261.
Reset trip odometer to 0 at El Crucero/ Km. 261.
13.0 is the Bahia de los Angeles junction.
69.9 is the Villa Jesus Maria Pemex station (121.2 miles driven since Gonzaga Bay gas fill-up)
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[Edited on 3-14-2014 by David K]
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David K
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Bahia Asuncion to Mision Santa Gertrudis
0.0 Bufadora Hotel (Juan & Shari's B&B, Bahia Asuncion)
0.9 Pavement
1.1 Gasoline dealer
1.2 Police Station, Curvina St., road to San Roque
1.4 Divided street, Campo Sirena entrance
1.7 Town entrance, end divided street.
4.7 Km. 34, road to San Hipolito, La Bocana, Punta Abreojos junction
25.2 Bahia Tortugas/ Vizcaino Hwy. junction
70.0 Hwy. 1, Vizcaino.
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0.0 Vizcaino (Hwy. 1 and Bahia Tortugas junction)
0.3 Pemex Station
6.5 Guillermo Prieto road to northeast (signed as being 23 kms.)
18.4 Turn left (north), signed to Mision Santa Gertrudis
19.0 Center of Guillermo Prieto, ghost town.
30.1 State Border, Pacific Time Zone (opening in fence, 80 feet north)
32.6 Mision Santa Gertrudis/ El Arco road crossing. Straight across for Punta San Francisquito and Bahia de los Angeles. Left for El Arco. Right for
Mision Santa Gertrudis (11 miles). Log turns right...
33.2 Rancho Miraflores (made famous in Graham Mackintosh's 'Journey with a Baja Burro')
43.6 Misión Santa Gertrudis, founded in 1752.
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thank you for a very detailed description! To summarize (pls correct if I'm reading this wrong)... there's pavement all the way to Coco's now? (I
haven't been there...yet).
And: it's 28 miles of dirt road from Coco's to Hwy 1/Chapala intersection?
And: it takes 3 hours for the drive to Hwy 1 because of rocks/whoops etc., similar to the the San Ignacio lagoon road before construction/paving, so
airing down is recommended.
Does that sound about right?
\"Probably the airplanes will bring week-enders from Los Angeles before long, and the beautiful poor bedraggled old town will bloom with a
Floridian ugliness.\" (John Steinbeck, 1940, discussing the future of La Paz, BCS, Mexico)
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David K
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Hi... no in the log above I give the end of pavement mileage at 31.3 from Puertecitos. Today it is at Gonzaga Pemex and a short distance south. It is
just under 13 miles from Coco's to Hwy. 1 at Chapala. Allow up to an hour for that but it takes me half that.
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