Terry RichardVisiting a Tarahumara village in the mountains above Batopilas, Mexico. AH, CHIHUAHUA! Mexico's largest state is remote, but Copper Canyon is worth the journey The sun was two hours ...

I won't lie: I had some qualms about traveling alone to the Copper Canyon, a series of awe-inspiring gorges bigger than the Grand Canyon that happen to be in the same northwestern region of Mexico ...

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Switchbacking into Batopilas Canyon with a 360-degree view, waving to kids on the road, I was Queen Elizabeth II. Advertisement. It takes five hours to get to Batopilas.

Whether you're taking on the famous 32-mile trek from Cusarare to Divisadero or tackling the popular Batopilas-to-Urique route, you'll be rewarded with sweeping canyon vistas and majestic waterfalls.

The best thing about Copper Canyon is that it's accessible by train. Ferrocarril Barrancas del Cobre — affectionately known as El Chepe — runs 220 miles from the Gulf of California coast into ...

I met a U.S. and Australian man, each traveling separately, who’d run into each other the day before and decided to ride mountain bikes together down the dusty switchbacks into the Batopilas Canyon.

The shrine of the Virgin Mary is the tip-off: It’s all diabolical from here. My bike and I have been skidding and sliding for an hour on this one-lane, dirt-and-rocks, switchback-ridden road, an ...

In one of Mexico's most rugged landscapes, strong donkeys, old silver towns and grapefruit margaritas mark the trail.

CHIHUAHUA, Mexico - I won't lie: I had some qualms about traveling alone to Copper Canyon, a series of awe-inspiring gorges bigger than the Grand Canyon that happen to be in the same northwestern ...

That night, over burritos at Case de Margarita, a packpackers’ hostel, I plotted out my next move—a descent by rickety bus to the bottom of Batopilas Canyon. The town of Batopilas (population ...