San Juanico (Scorpion Bay) and the Roads Thereto - Question
 

I'm thinking of a second trip into Baja and San Juanico caught my eye on the map. Off by its lonesome at the ends of various dirt roads, you don't hear much about it.

Worth a detour? My street bike (Kawi ZR-7S) has handled some northern and southern gravel / dirt roads, albeit slowly and carefully, but the routes into San Juanico look lengthy and daunting.

Any intelligence received with thanks.

Norm

Basically, there are 5 routes to Little Juan:
Insurgentes and then north (best for a street bike)
Over from Hwy 1 via San Isidro and La Purisima
Over from Hwy 1 via Comondus
Down from San Ignacio, kinda along the Pacific, both the high rd and the low rd
Ice House Rd from Mulege

Is that all there is?
 

Thank you Lone Rider. But is that all there is? Somehow I expected a flood of grizzled Baja hands to come out from under their palapas, Tecates in hand, with stories and sage advice. Where are the desparados and the vesparados(*)? Is little Juan an orphan? Are there no flowers to smell at San Juanico?

(*) Credit to a very funny cartoon depicting a fierce horde of Vespa riders dressed like Hollywood bandidos.

Norm

Si senor, we are talking about the same San Juanico. Scorpion Bay seems to be the name used by los gringos for a bay within the bay near the town. Good name to get the juices flowing....could be the title of a Jimmy Buffet song some day.

My bike is a actually a ZR rather than a ZX. Very different animal...really an old fashioned UJM in sporty clothing...but from your description probably equally unsuitable for all but one of the routes available. I did run into a patch of sand near San Quintin and the bike was pretty hopeless, not too mention nerve wracking, in that stuff. Of course, it could have been me.

Norm

Same place....

Scorpion Bay is the surfers' name, also the restaurant and campground out on the point. I recommend camping there. Although expensive, they also have an Internet connection if you'd need it.

Somebody would have to pay me a lot of money to ride a street bike on the low road that runs north to San Ignacio....through the deep sand, miles and miles of it, and potentially wet/dry lake beds. I did that route a few years ago on a heavy GS and it wore me out. So much of it depends on the conditions.

Ice House Rd runs through some of the prettiest scenery in Baja. After leaving a beautiful gorge a little west of Mulege, it follows San Raymundo Wash towards the Pacific and comes out at La Ballena. This is not a route for a street bike.

The other off road routes are rocky and with washboard surface, sometimes the most extreme corrugations a man could imagine. :) A street bike would just have to go slower through some sections.

Thanks. Much useful information.

Norm,
If you wanted to post some of the places you plan to visit, I'm sure people would spout off their thoughts.
You can easily run the dirt along the East Cape coast north of San Jose del Cabo and that's a very pretty route. Also the area around El Triunfo, the old mining town, is very beautiful, and it's paved, good moto street riding....unless a storm has recently gone through. Most people dismiss the extreme south end of Baja thinking it's only Cabo San Lucas tourist crap.