El Chepe is the only land connection between Los Mochis and Chihuahua, with 37 bridges and 86 tunnels.

It is highly recommended to start the trip at Los Mochis or El Fuerte as the journey from El Fuerte to Bahuichivo is the most spectacular, and when traveling from Chihuahua to Los Mochis, you will reach it at the end of the day or even night time in winter, especially if the train is delayed, which is quite common.

A word of warning:
you can only buy your train tickets at Los Mochis and Chihuahua. All the other train stations on the way DO NOT SELL tickets! You may buy your ticket directly in the train if the train has space, which it usually does.
The official site [ Ссылка ] has phone numbers that rarely answer and email addresses that do not reply.
Several websites offer online tickets but may be a scam (which may be reported on [ Ссылка ]).

We visited right after hurricane Newton in September 2016, at the end of an heavy rain season. End of September is probably one of the best time of the year to visit with the most spectacular views and few visitors. The exuberant nature, with abundant vegetation and numerous waterfalls, even up to the canyons’ ridges, amidst fantastic rock formations give a dreamy, surreal dimension to the landscape.

The best way to fully enjoy the views is through the windows between the wagons.
La mejor manera de disfrutar plenamente de las vistas es por las ventanas entre los vagones.
Some of the highlights on the way:
Located past El Fuerte (km 781), over the Rio Fuerte and overlooking Lake Huites (Luis Donaldo Colosio Dam), Agua Caliente Bridge is the longest bridge of El Chepe 498.m with a height of 46 m.
Temoris offers multiple views of one of the best waterfalls, with a succession of three 180° loops.

Traveling to Copper Canyon, take your time and allow several stops on the way.
We recommend: Bahuichivo (for Cerocahui and Urique), Barrancas/Divisadero and Creel.
There are many frequent, inexpensive and comfortable buses between Bahuichivo and Creel, so you are much better off travelling by road on that section.

Bahuichivo: Cerocahui, Cerro de Gallegos, Urique
Cerocahui is a charming little village with a mission in an alpine setting. In the lovely hotel Jade, Francia and Alberto welcome their guest in a friendly convivial atmosphere.
A 30 minutes walk by a river in serene meadows and pine forest leads to a couple of cascades that dry out after the rainy season (June to September).
Cerro de Gallegos, overlooks the Urique Canyon, the deepest within Copper Canyon at close to 2,000 meters.
The descent to Urique is not for the faint of heart, but well worth the adrenaline surge, going down from alpine pine forests to mangoes, peanuts and papayas along narrow, beaten down dirt roads.

Barrancas / Divisadero - Sierra Tarahumara
Located at the junction of three canyons, Del Cobre, (Copper Canyon) Urique Canyon, and Tararecua, Barrancas and Divisadero are the most touristic areas of copper canyons with luxury hotels hanging from the cliffs, an adventure Park with a 2,800 mt tram ride and zipline (3rd single longest span in the world) and rappelling over the cliff.
A few km cliff edge trail offers numerous bluffs with bird’s eye views of the canyons.
Tarahumara arts & craft; gorditas and other delicious street food at the Divisadero train station.

Creel
The Pueblo Magico of Creel is a short drive to Arareko Lake, Cusárare falls and many strange rock formations such as elephant rock, frog rocks, mushroom rocks and Valley of the Monks or Bisabirachi - which really means “valley of the erect penises” in Raramuri.
The Basaseachi waterfalls, one of the highest in Mexico, with a drop of over 246 mts are at a full day ride from Creel. We were greeted by a magnificent rainbow as we neared the bottom of the canyon after a steep and rocky descent.

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