Patzcuaro - Rancho La Mesa

The road from town has been upgraded up to La Mesa. It is all concrete or cobblestone. You can see it on Google Earth as Calle Ascension and later Zaragoza. It leads to Parroquia de María Inmaculada de la Salud, and later the square. The road after La Mesa was not upgraded and is not passable except by horse.

You would have to make some tight turns to get there, so not an appropriate route for rigs, but a car would be fine. The collectivos run up and down the road close to La Mesa and we saw taxis too.

We walked in every morning, my gps had it as 2kms to the square, all downhill on paved or cobblestone road.

Rob

Its been three years since we were there last. The road to town has always been there,dirt ungraded, not sure if it has been upgraded? Would not take a low riding vehicle through but our jeep made it fine. Lots of turns and easy to take the wrong one but we used it the last couple times we were there. If I remember you have to open a barb wire gate to get out of Rancho then go through some barrios and come out on the main road.

We have not been to Rancho la Mesa for a couple years so are not sure about the road into town from there. We do know there was a sort of old horse path that was not maintained that went to somewhere in town but we never took it. That could be the road mentioned above and possibly it has been improved to help access to the "resort". We always drove back out to Hwy 120 and into town that way. It is just a couple miles.

I went on Google Earth and used their measuring device to do an "as the crow flies" distance from La Mesa to the main plaza in Centro - came out to 1.2 miles - not sure how accurate - or exactly which roads would take you there. You can see La Mesa on Google Earth at 19.502141 -101.594655 - zoom in to see white lines marked for RVs - the image on GE had a date of Nov 29, 2011 so it is a few years out of date. You should be able to Copy & Paste those coordinates from this post to the search line on Google Earth to find it.

I also used Google Earth to do an "as the crow flies" from Villa Patzcuaro to Centro and came up with 1.4 miles. Again - not sure which roads or actually miles.

The road to La Mesa is/was dirt and sort of back-tracks over 14D across a main highway concrete bridge - so maybe they expect eventual road improvements.

La Mesa is maybe a little over 5 years old and all hook-ups are new so there is no problem with electric - can't remember if we drink the water. We have our own UV water purification and filtration (a couple hundred bucks).

This place is mostly one of those wedding and event center places but they don't seem to have a lot of events. There is a restaurant. Our main reasons for preferring La Mesa has to do with the fantastic view from up there - and we are 40' long towing a car so getting into smaller parks is not always easily done - though we do get into some tight places. La Mesa has tons of room and over 20 spaces. They have fancy horses and ostriches and other animals. Ostrich on the menu too.


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The electricity is fine if you are the only one in the park. I would not plug into that setup for fear of killing something in my unit. Last time I actually checked the voltage it was just over 85. At night when some fool would plug in a kettle or heater it was even worse. Must be some awfully hot wires!!!

Moisheh

Now that El Pozo is over, we will be back at Hotel Villa Patzcuaro. For two or three nights without a tow, it's tight, the electricity is bad, but it's close in.

How about transport without a car? Patzcuaro is not the easiest place to find parking. And 14-D is not the place to find out about 5-axles cuotas. Coming and going. Around ninety US Dollars from the coast. Crossing el bule at Villa Patzcuaro is like a video game with me as the peaton target. I gave up a starting getting a nineteen dollar hotel room 3 blocks from plaza Bocanegra. Was hoping la mesa would work. Thanks.

And then there's the Hotel Villa Patzcuaro and Rv Park or was that already mentioned?

Did you just use Facebook or did you use the email posted above? Do you know if there is a good way to email him? Thanks.

I used Facebook, but I will check with Beto if that is still his email address and post it here.

Rob

Almalibre

Rob,

They have a Facebook page and Beto answered our direct messages to him.

Did you just use Facebook or did you use the email posted above? Do you know if there is a good way to email him? Thanks.

Thankyou ofr the updateon the entrance, I have a caravan coming in there in November, nice to know you can trun up ahead.