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.
Ask ten Baja fishermen where they’d go with one week and one boat, and you’ll hear this bay named more than anywhere else. Bahía de los Ángeles sits behind a screen of sixteen islands on the gulf side of the peninsula, and the channel between them moves bait, current, and everything that eats both.
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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.
OverlandersWhere the pavement gets interesting: south of Puertecitos the Gulf coast empties out, and the road delivers you to one of Baja's last great beach outposts.
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.
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.
