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Ruta 40 travel story
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Try the ACA (automóvil club argentino) website, or the Vialidad Nacional site for road conditions. Im traveling at the moment so I can’t check my paper maps, but the ones on sale at gas stations do show if the road is paved or not


Perfecto! I had to ask at four different gas stations before I found one that sold maps, but it was worth the effort! Thanks for the recommendation, these are perfect for what I wanted to know regarding road conditions.




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Duration and time
For travelling Ruta 40.
Not just driving. But stop,investigate, expose yourself, enjoy nature and other places close to the route. Without any preasure to finish

How much time have you allocated/propose?
2 month ?

What time of year has been the best/ propsed ?
Dec-jan ?

Thanks for anyone sharing experience
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I did the Ruta 40 10 month ago. All the way from Mendoza south, and some parts in the north of Mendoza.

There are a few challenging parts in the south, specially, as mentioned above, one stretch between Gobernador Gregores and Tres Lagos. App. 70 km of it were gravel road, and 10 of it were very difficult to ride with deep gravel. Everybody I met struggled on this part, and a few guys also come off their bikes there.

Also take into consideration that between Gobernador Gregores and Perito Moreno (360 km) no gasoline is available. Actually, there is a place in between where supposedly sometimes petrol is sold, but I passed it twice, and they had no gasoline.

The heavy winds are also a factor not to be missed: makes riding challenging, and the gasoline consumption of your bike will go up heavy. For some parts I needed 50% more gasoline, even I tried to ride full-efficient.

Most of the ruta 40 is very well paved and a pleasure to ride.
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... There are a few challenging parts in the south, specially, as mentioned above, one stretch between Gobernador Gregores and Tres Lagos. App. 70 km of it were gravel road, and 10 of it were very difficult to ride with deep gravel. Everybody I met struggled on this part, and a few guys also come off their bikes there...

Is there any viable route that avoids this section? Looks like no? Unless maybe you divert over to RT 3 further up north?

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Did you follow the road "only"
Or did you make excursion into national parks ++
Looks to be a lot of beautiful places to visit in the area that the road passes.
Lakes, mountains.........

Trip migth take a lot of time ...
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Ruta 40 Tires
For a trip following Ruta 40. And doing trips to nice places in the area around Ruta 40. (Gravel roads) Plus do Carreta Austral:

What would be your choice of tyres ?
TKC70 or TKC80 ?
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I have just finished (Jan 2020) riding a part of Ruta 40 which included a 55km unpaved section between Lago Cardiel and Tres Lagos. There are stretches here with deep ungraded gravel which makes it very difficult to ride in strong crosswinds as you are blown all over the road and can't navigate in the ruts. I took a heavy fall here in about 30 kn of wind along with many other riders. My advice is to download the WINDY app which will give you an accurate wind forecast and do not ride this section if it's blowing more than 15 kn (which it often is).
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Not a travel story
But 7 reasons to drive Ruta 40

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H3EP9ObwpQ
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Place where to tank between Tres Lagos and Perito Moreno is Bajo Caracoles,
but they don t always have gas. Refill tank passed there every 3 days. If you arrive there and want to say overnight, tank first, maybe won t there be any gas in the morning when you want to left.
Seems the 40 is much better now than when i did it.
Else that you can also cross to chile just before Perito Moreno city by taking a boat (scenic road following water) just before the city at left that will bring you on the carretera austral which is much more beautifull with Cochrane and Cohaique (marmol catedrals).

PS not only can the road be tricky, wind blowing at 120-160km/h in such conditions is hard.
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So we've covered about half of Ruta 40 off and on at different times since 1989. Ruta 40 gives full information on the route. It's the best I've found.

https://suramericacontraelreloj.blog...st-photos.html and a lot of the subsequent posts cover the longest trip which included bits of Ruta 40 (on this trip we wove back and forth between Argentina and Chile several times). Tthey were "upgrading" (a matter of opinion) to asphalt for much of the southern section.

We were last there more recently to visit some sites we had been unable to previously - https://alanymarcemoreexploration.bl...-weekends.html .

Not exactly what you're looking for but may be of some help.
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