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.
Every January, the world’s longest mammal migration ends in a set of Baja lagoons, and the oldest and biggest nursery of them all — Laguna Ojo de Liebre, Scammon’s Lagoon — sits twenty minutes from Guerrero Negro. For snowbirds running the peninsula, this is the season’s non-negotiable stop: pangas idling among mothers and calves, whales close enough to touch (and often insisting on it), in the place where the species came back from the edge of extinction.
Members read the full route guide
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.
OverlandersA date-palm oasis, a stone mission, and mule trails to the greatest rock art in the Americas — the overland trip that ends 7,500 years back.
SnowbirdsBorder to Los Cabos at snowbird pace — the full peninsula in easy legs, with monthly-rate parks along the way.
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.
