So if you’ve made it this far into the blog, you may have guessed that we rather liked the Durango area, particularly Sierra de los Organos. We really enjoyed our time there exploring around the boulders andĭriving down an old railway line to some long disused tunnels cut into the side Vast ‘stone garden’, a dense scattering of huge boulders and remarkable rockįormations. Not really following the wild-west scenery theme, but here is a Yup… a-man’s-gotta-do-whata-man’s-gotta-do.Īnother fabulous small state park near Durango is It’s fascinating to wander the saloon and store-front facades, imagining a 1960s Wayne inimitably moseying into the saloon and challenging the baddie (always dressed in black!) to a gun-slingin’ shoot-out.
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The street-set is starting to get a bit run-down now and needs a bit of maintenance, but it still feels full of Hollywood history. There are acres and acres of landscapes, creeks and canyons to explore, where you almost expect to see a silhouette row of Sioux headdresses popping up over a distant ridge-line. Today it’s a remote, and therefore little visited, attraction run by the friendly Armando. It was both a set for his film making and a personal Mexican hideaway between movies. The sprawling estate used to belong to Duke himself – John Wayne. Just north of Durango city where the cattle roamin’ plains meet the mountains and canyons, is La Joya Ranch. Spotted every time you raise your head from the rocky path. The park are gentle but awesome, with a new curious rock formation to be It has been used for Hollywood cowboy films back in the hey-day of the genre. The climate here is perfect, there’s a great little campĪrea that we had all to ourselves and the scenery is so visually wild west that Reserve and certainly our favourite in Mexico so far.
It’s the first real wild west scenery that we’ve come across. State border in Zacatecas, but it’s only an hour or so away from Durango city and What? Yes, organ pipes ? The Sierra is actually just outside the Durango The tin: tall, narrow, vertical rock formations, curiously reminiscent of… guess The Organ Pipes Mountain Range does exactly what it says on Why, in the name of Duke’s boots, had we never even heard of this place before? Sierra de los Órganos There we were… just moseying-on through, minding our own business when the whole wild west ‘thing’ just grabbed us by surprise and got us to hang-out for a few days. There are few places more ‘cowboys and indians’ than Durango.
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It’s a town, it’s a state of Mexico, it’s one big wild-west movie set, it even lent its name to a movie, and there’s a notorious John Wayne connection.