Route from Queretaro to San Juan de Teotihuacán

Several years ago I wrote a tutorial to help people to use Streets & Trips . . .
http://www.rvtechlibrary.com/electronics/gps_streets_trips.htm . . .
It is a bit out of date now - I think it was 2010 but if you have a recent version of S&T you can use it to plan your trip. I can also create a route and email it to you and tell you how to plug it into your S&T so you can see the route. Some Garmin GPS units can be used to allow routes planned in S&T to be moved to the Garmin for navigation. I am working on updating my tutorial to show some of this too. The tutorial may seem long but the idea is not to try to learn it all in one sitting but to work on the different features one by one. S&T is dollar for dollar on of the best investments you can make - once you learn how to use it. I update mine every year for under $30.

Flamingos Inn in Queretaro has parking for motorhomes. We stayed there for a week, 250 a night. Included clean towels, supplies, heated pool, very nice showers poolside. The maid even offered to come in and clean. Very well located. Easy in and out, right off the freeway.

If I recall correctly, the RV park itself is in the restriction zone. There is very convenient & frequent bus that goes right past it to the subway line if you want to go into Mexico city. The sites are nice & grassy and the ruins are easy to get to from there.I was there 3 years ago and construction on the circle road made it a bit of a nightmare, i took a wrong turn and ended up heading into the city center at one point.

I came up from Puebla so I came in from the east then onto the secondary road into town above 132. It was fine. It was leaving where i got lost.

There is a sizable cathedral right by the RV park so you can use that as a landmark. The road in front of it intersects the road the RV park is on. There is a wall across the road form the Cathedral (some stores in front of it, so you may not be able to see it) and the RV park is effectively behind that wall.With your back to the front of the Cathedral, the RV park would be a right hand turn onto the street to your left. Lots of parking in front of the Cathedral so you can get out & walk to check it out.

We were there several years ago so I am sure the construction is done - again - you can call Mina to ask her - she is very accommodating. If you take the route I suggest you do not go close enough to Mexico City for it to be a problem. These are all cuotas so not used much - we had no Mexico City traffic on that route. The old route before they built this new road was another story. That is over and done with and the new road is a breeze.

To Canadian Rainbirds from navegator, I saw the pictures and read the colum, I try to avoid grass or sod when ever possible, if not I deploy my wood to park under my tires, same for sand, I also have a couple of metal units that fold unto themselves and are designed for yust this type of headake, I have dug enough tires in my time, from sand,snow and mud, both travelling with my father and in the service.

maybe well meet one day, the world is small.

navegator

Thank's for the respose, we have stayed at a hotel on the South side on the parking lot, on the route to Mexico, I can find it but do not remember the name, we spend the night there and start early in the morning in order to enter Mexico after morning rush hour, then either stop at Tepozotlan or continue to my brother in laws "summer hose" in Cuautla or his wife's parents house in Acapulco.

Again thank you for the info, it's good to know yust in case that the hotel says NO!

navegator

Navagator: We stayed behind the hotel by the Pemex north of Queretaro, near the town of Santa Rosa Jauregui.

If you want to see how much fun we had there here is a link to our blog.

Just don't park on the grass behind the Pemex. It looks inviting and we have parked there in the past, but they tend to water the grass a LOT! :E :S

Stay behind the hotel. :)

BrianSue: Thanks for the detailed report. We do have Streets and Trips on the other notebook but aren't too familiar with it. We're a little uncomfortable getting that close to Mexico City, we have been there with a professional local driving and don't want to do it with the RV. We do have the new Garmin RV GPS with an updated Mexico chip but don't know how good it will be. Our older Garmin Nuvi worked well in Mexico last year but had some big gaps.

A re-read of Church's finds that they recommend coming from the east on the 132 rather than from the west. I take it from your comments that construction in the town may make it a little more difficult.

This will be our third trip to the ruins, and we have visited Mexico City for several days years ago and enjoyed it very much, including two visits to the Anthropology Museum--the first time with English speaking retired history professor as our guide, and the second some years later with a professor of pre-hispanic history as our guide, this time all in Spanish as part of the language school activities. This was the same guide who first took us to Teotihuacan.

Thanks again..See you on the road

You should have no problem getting into the trailer park as far as size goes. The problem we had was finding the correct turns to get there. Do you have Microsoft Streets & Trips? I can send you the route so you can plug it into S&T. Or I can try to explain it. We took 132D and got off at the correct exit but it is one of those cloverleaf things where they have cloverleafs overlapping cloverleafs. We made wrong turns and found ourselves going the wrong way. Once we got to town we could not find the TP due to construction and torn up roads and detours. Finally parked and walked to find Mina who is the owner and she got in her car and led us into the park. She even moved detour barrels and just said "follow me". She is a very nice woman and maybe if you call you can arrange for her to meet you to lead you in - she does fine in English. I think I posted on here years ago and maybe on the Church website.

We took the new road but not the Arco Norte. On the map there is another road I show as 5D but don't know if that is correct. It goes from 57D (Queretaro Autopista) to 85D (Pachuca) and 132D near Ecatepec de Morelos. I shows as a totally straight line for much of its route. It starts near Coyotepec and Huehuetoca. I takes off from 57D further south toward Mexico City than Arco Norte - no problem with Mexico City traffic so no worries.

I will say that Teotihuacan is well worth the effort and maybe more than one day exploring. From there we were able to hire a guide to go into Mexico City and the Anthropology Museum which could take a few days too. Mina says take the bus and then the subway into Mexico City and she does it all the time but we figured it was worth it to hire a guide.

This is a nice place to hang out for a bit unless a Quebec Caravan of 22 RVs shows up to a park with 18 spaces. Mina had us park in her garden and hook up to her house - and the caravan had a party with mariachis so it turned out ok though quite crowded - truth be told we had a pretty nice spot in the garden.

Teotihuacan is in the Esatdo de Mexico and has the "hoy no circula", so check the days that you can not traverse and maybe wait a day in Queretaro, yust for curisity where do you stop for the night in Queretaro.

navegator