Motorcycle Mexico 2026 Day 13
March 05, 2026
We got on the road around nine after a buffet breakfast at the American Inn hotel. It was starting to warm up in Parral, but as soon as we got out of town and started heading up into the mountains it stayed pretty cool. It even felt pretty chilly above 7,500 feet.
We headed west from Parral first on MX 24, then on MX 23/25. The pavement on most of the roads we took today was in poor to terrible condition which was too bad because these roads are curvy and have fantastic views.
We did eventually find a construction crew doing some paving, and then we got about three miles of brand new pavement, but that was one percent of the distance we rode.
We got to Guachochi and rode down a short bit of badly eroded gravel road to the Cascada el Salto. There is a nice park there and we ate some bananas taken from the breakfast buffet, cookies, and granola bars for lunch.
We weren’t sure whether there would be a gas station before we turned off towards Divisadero so we decided to fill up on the way out of Guachochi. But this guy in the truck was using both sides of the pump, and filling a couple big barrels like that takes a fair amount of time.
I was especially happy in this photo at the Copper Canyon overlook in Divisadero because I just saw that Kristi Noem was going to lose her cabinet position.
After looking at the canyon for a while and walking through the mostly-closed vendor area, the train arrived while we were getting ready to leave. We headed back on MX 77 to Creel.
We saw a sign about a Tarahumara sewing center and went down a dirt road to see what they had. They have a lot of the traditional women’s outfits and some other crafts. I got a neat keychain.
We arrived at our hotel around five. After unpacking and lubricating the chains we walked up and down the main street in Creel before settling on The Lodge for dinner.
After dinner we spotted this armored vehicle at a hotel.
It belongs to the state investigative bureau. While we were checking it out Omar, one of the AEI guys, showed up and talked to us about it and let us look inside. It’s based on a Ford F350 chassis but it looked to me like the suspension had been beefed up. Omar seems like a nice guy and I hope he doesn’t end up needing all that armor.
We walked back to the plaza because I wanted to stop at Ice Creel, an ice cream shop with a fun name.
