Paso de Cortés, between Iztaccíhuatl and Popocatépetl
36 km (22 miles), 1 hr 30 min, intermediate
Photo: Óscar Badillo Pérez, CC BY-SA 4.0, resizedMotorcycle ride in Hidalgo
Hidalgo mining villages: Real del Monte and Huasca
31 km (19 miles), 1 hr 30 min, intermediate
North-east of Mexico City, the road leaves Pachuca and climbs through the forest to Mineral del Monte, an old mining village with English influences. It passes Omitlán, then Huasca de Ocampo, the country's first "pueblo mágico", and goes down to the basalt prisms of Santa María Regla. Slippery cobbles in the villages.
Stops along the way
- SStart: Pachuca
- 1Mineral del Monte, after 12 km (7 miles)
- 2Omitlán de Juárez, after 18 km (11 miles)
- 3Huasca de Ocampo, after 27 km (17 miles)
- FFinish: Prismes basaltiques, after 31 km (19 miles)
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