Fill the tank before you leave the border. Top off any time you’re at half.
MEX-5 the whole way. Return on the same highway.
This is the route for people who measure trips in weeks, not days — the full run of Highway 1 from the border to Los Cabos, broken into legs short enough that no driving day feels like work. Cross in the morning, and by the third night you’re eating fish tacos with the Pacific out the windshield; by the third week you can be swimming in the Sea of Cortez with your rig parked twenty feet away and no reason to hurry anywhere.
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The complete story, trip vitals verified by members who drove it, and the GPS file to take with you — every route in the library. $40 a year.
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Members get this for every route in the library — a growing library of Baja trips — plus the camping, fuel, and checkpoint notes that go with them. The file loads straight into Gaia GPS, OnX Offroad, or a Garmin. $40 a year.
RV TravelersThe easiest way into Baja there is: two hours of paved highway from the border to a beach town built for exactly this trip. If you've never taken the rig to Mexico, start here.
AnglersIsland-studded bay on the Gulf side, and some of the most reliable yellowtail water on the peninsula.
Van TravelersThe van-sized classic: surf points, street food, and cliff camps down the old free road from the border to San Quintín.
Baja changes. Roads wash out, camps close, a Pemex that was there in March can be dry in November. Everything on this page came from members who actually drove it, on the date stamped at the top — but conditions on the ground are yours to verify.
The GPX track is a planning aid, not a navigation authority. Don’t follow a line on a screen into terrain you can’t see. Carry paper backup, tell someone your plan, and turn around when the road tells you to.
Mexican auto insurance is required by law and your U.S. policy doesn’t cover you. If something goes wrong without it, the situation gets much worse very fast. Get a quote before you cross.
