What rv parks in baja

rbobbitt wrote:
On a recent road trip from los cabos to san diego and back , i saw lots of mohos traveling in groups. Most heading north. I havent seen this many in a few years. I have lived in san jose del cabo for 24 years. Its good to see more rvers traveling the baja, but what parks are they camping at and what are the best ones...randy

So Many Responses and only one addressing the question.

I liked Mulege's Orchard RV park. It was years ago so it may not exist anymore but the park had all levels of camping from tent spaces all the way up to cabin rentals. We also liked boonedocking at Santispac Beach, but would park in hotel/motel parking lots every 3rd or 4th night. We were in a van camper in those days.

robatthelake wrote:
The biggest reason that We Canadians head North in March is because until this Year We were only allowed to be out of Our Home Province for Six Months!
This Year it is Seven Months .

That would indeed explain many RVs heading North in March. There is a lot of Canadians in Baja, and most of them are from British Columbia - and indeed, until last year this province allowed only 6 months of absence before cutting the Medicare off. Ontario and some other provinces allowed 7 months for long time, but BC switched to 7 months only last year.

The OP specifically asked about Baja - not about places on the mainland mentioned in some of the posts here.

Note that 7 months is only for medical plan. The social pension part called GIS will stop after 6 months of absence.

Filing taxes in April can be done online, Canada Revenue website offers a few free programs for download. You don't have to be physically present in Canada for filing taxes, though you still need a valid Canadian address for getting your annual T5 forms from the banks etc. Technically, you can have this mail forwarded to your winter address in Baja, but the chances of this mail getting lost are too high. Canadians living most of the year in Baja and visiting Canada only for a few days every 6 months to keep their GIS coming, should consider a service that would scan and email them copies of those T5 forms. The Notice of Assessment the govt will gladly email to you, they offer this option now.

rbobbitt wrote:
Its good to see more rvers traveling the baja, but what parks are they camping at and what are the best ones...randy

As usual, the definition of "best" depends on who is asking. Tastes differ.

As to what parks they camp at - I would say, anywhere in Baja. Even parks full with permanent residents that have build homes around or in place of their trailers, and where there are no hookups, no sea view and hardly any space for transients, - even those places are getting small caravan groups and individual RVs from time to time. Some leave in the morning, some stay a few days.

I know it's a warm summer night when I have to spread bath towels beneath me pillow and all to prevent them from getting soaked. When summer rains come the temperature can drop fro 35c to 25c. The relief can last an afternoon and evening with a thunderstorm or for a week or longer when the monsoon arrives usually in August. Baja California gets MUCH warmer than that in the summer. Three or four showers a day is the norm for me.

One trip south of Melaque one year in February took us as far as Zihautenjo. We had no AC, but our friends traveling close by us did. They also had a thermometer in their truck and early on had insisted on us taking a radio to be in contact. We knew that was a bad move when they began to broadcast the rising of the guage they could see - and gleefully report it to us. But we're still friends!

Summer in the tropics means many days are overcast with lots of tropical thunderstorms. my home is about 250 miles south of Melaque. It's much warmer im winter months especially at night. frequently at dawn the temperature in Melaque is in the low sixties Fahrenheit. On the other hand there temperature in our area can be 77 degrees at dawn. Seventeen degrees difference. The lowest temperature I have ever seen in my hometown was 63 degrees Fahrenheit at 6 o'clock in the morning. Locals were shivering and asking to borrow blankets. not one of my neighbors had so much as a light jacket nevermind a heavy coat to wear on those chilly mornings. My last trip northbound found me in Lukeville Arizona in August with a daytime temperature of 122 degrees Fahrenheit and when I arrived in Laughlin Nevada the temperature was 101 degrees at 15 minutes past midnight. with temperatures of 90 degrees at night the rooms become bearable if there is a small air conditioner that can remove the excess humidity. During the day if you stay within a fifty meters of the ocean surf breaking on the beach the climate is very tolerabke but if you will go inland so much as 500 meters the air temperature skyrockets. I remember seeing an air temperature of 40 degrees Celsius in the ithsmus of Tehuantepec in February.

The biggest reason that We Canadians head North in March is because until this Year We were only allowed to be out of Our Home Province for Six Months!
This Year it is Seven Months .
As a result there will be some of Us heading South Earlier and some who will head Home later!
And Yes We do need to file Our Taxes by the end of April as some folks who haven't hired an accountant or Such to file on their behalf will need to scurry Home early!

I remember the feeling.. heat getting hotter and humidity getting into higher percentages...its getting stuffier... will I be able to breath if this continues, nightfall brings no relief! Time to move up into the mountains. And start home! That was at Melague one year, too deep into March! (M'gads, how does anyone live here?!)We would get 90's in late afternoons, but not with the humidity, in winters. Sometimes no rain for two winter seasons in a row, what a great (winter)climate!

Living on the peninsula for a stretch of time it is my opinion that gaggles of RVers cluster. Some days I see zero for 100-miles other days maybe 30 in 100 miles. Early March brings forth a massive exit migration. Canadians earliest, then northern USAers. Californian, Arizonans, and Texans stay until May. I think more than a few folks exit just because they have to do their taxes. I chuckle when Canadians act like they have heat stroke if the mercury climbs to 80F.

I took my travel trailer to Cabo and back two years ago. Posted my views on rvpark reviews. Check it out.