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.
An hour from the Mexicali crossing, the pavement ends at the edge of Laguna Salada — a dead-flat dry lake the size of a small sea — and the fun begins: a sandy, washboarded track across the lakebed and up an alluvial fan into a slot in the Sierra de Juárez where thousands of native palms crowd a creek, waterfalls run in the granite, and the campsites come with private hot-spring tubs chiseled into the rock.
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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.
Off-RoadersThe club's backyard Baja 1000 country — mountain dirt, pine forest, and the most famous ranch gate in off-road racing, run as a border-to-border loop.
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.
