Rattlesnake Beach | Established Campground

February 19th, 2023 by w1koons

This place is permanently closed.

January 27th, 2023 by monkeybar18134

This place is now a private, day only use area.

December 29th, 2022 by jklaes

There was a man there at the road fixing his car that said it was now a private area and that you could not camp there, or pay to camp at the beaches there anymore.

December 28th, 2022 by Doug Miller

A Fonatur representative in a small trailer stopped us to ask the duration of our stay and our name. He said camping is OK and free--he is there from the government tourism agency to help with security and keeping things clean. We drove the 15+ private sites and walked the beach a bit. There is a trail network with a map sign at the northern end of the beach.

November 25th, 2022 by Sleam

This place is permanently closed.

October 21st, 2022 by w1koons

The local police come by a are not allowing long term camping. They said it’s alright for a night or 2

December 2nd, 2021 by msulkers

2400mp/month for those so inclined.

Great kayak launch site. Well maintained.

Overnight parking can be arranged in secure lot at Hotel Tripui for about 60mp/night, 20 minutes walk away.

Excellent launch site for kayaking to Parque Nacional Bahia de Loreto.

November 19th, 2021 by Sleam

Tricky to find but sandy track is fine for 2wd. It was confusing because when you get near it's unclear as to what's going on. Scrubby trees, small spurs of sand pull ins, beach, trash cans, most spaces claimed by long term, and so we parked and walked around looking for an empty space. Water is beautiful, mountains behind are sharp and spiky, it's very unique. Not a place I'd heard about.

February 25th, 2020 by evemariedesjardins

Here for 4 nights, mostly calm except on the #1 spot on Saturday night when locals comes for fiesta. 100 pesos per night collected once a week. Trash pick up! Clean and awesome snorkeling. Beautiful hiking from camp spot. Looking over the bay and also over the hills toward puerto Escondido beautiful view. Easy hike! Bring lots of water! Restaurant in the port!

March 8th, 2019 by hkgassman

Not a free beach, we paid 100 pesos a nite. Mostly long timers and there is not much access to the water. There was reports of banditos so keep your things locked up.

March 8th, 2019 by hkgassman

This not a free beach, we paid 100 pesos a nite and the rent collector came in twice in the week we stayed. The beach has mostly long term campers and there is not much access to the water. There was reports of bandits so keeps your things locked up.

March 8th, 2019 by hkgassman

This is not a free beach, we paid 100 pesos per night. Busy beach with lots of full timers and really not much access to the beach. There are reports of bandits so keep your things locked up.

January 6th, 2019 by cgmazur

Current rate is 100 pesos a night. You may or may not be there when they come by, but it’s usually a weekly visit.
Location is a most people have described. We’ve stayed here in a tent before and in a westy. Both benefit from the berms as it blocks the wind nicely when it flairs up. The vegetation is nice for privacy between sites. The ‘permanents’, as someone mentioned, are absolutely a great group of people. Don’t be surprised if you arrive around 4pm and a game of bocce ball is occurring, so slow down and enjoy the ‘locals’. Plus they are a great resource of local information. Great SUP location as well, but usually need to be off the water by 11 or 12.

June 15th, 2018 by facebook.com/2MsOnTheRoad

Very disappointing. My question is also why people come here to spend their winter. You need to drive through a garbage dump to get there. Beautiful view is obstructed by bushes that don't even give you enough shade nor support to put up a tarp and they are full of garbage too. I thought people care more about their semi-permanent camp. There is small fishing shack right on the beginning. Maybe further south the spots get nicer, we saw about first 5, it was muddy further down.

January 21st, 2018 by skelto

Ok stop for a night while passing through. Easy access from highway on good dirt road. Yes there are many snow birds who really establish themselves for the winter but we managed to find a bit of space to ourselves further south down beach. Quiet, clean and safe with no facilities. No fee collected.

March 6th, 2017 by dancing-fireflies.com

Beautiful place BUT a lot of snow birds. All the beautiful places were full. They have an emergency parking lot for you....

February 27th, 2017 by Worldwind

We drove in here from Tripui to check out sites. It looked like mostly Canadians hogging all the better spots semi permanently. My question was...why? Not that appealing apart from the view, probably excellent kayaking, too, but scabby brush and dark rocky beach, we chose not to stay.

February 13th, 2017 by danikev

nice by the small stoney beach, man comes around normally on sundays to empty the bins & collect money.
most spots taken by snowbirds, who seem to think there are the "beach pölicia" wanting to know how you hear about this?
but otherwise a chilled place.

November 20th, 2016 by lemondedetikal.com

like described.

November 20th, 2016 by visiterra

It is crowded and the best sites are taken by the permanents. There is a 2 km of gravel road and the brach is full of rocks.

May 1st, 2016 by Instagram.com

we camped here on our road trip through Baja and loved it. the beach isn't as beautiful as other beaches in Baja but the islands in the water are stunning. when we were here there was no other campers at all! there's a great little hike on the northern end of the beach that goes up the cliff and gives you an amazing view, worth going up there for sunrise. it took us an hour return to do the hike.

March 17th, 2016 by travis.downs

About a dozen large spots along the ocean, mostly occupied by longer term campers. There were a couple of spots free when we came, but even if the primary spots are gone there is room to fit in here and there. Free.

The spots are generally well protected from wind, among the shrubs above the high tide line. The beach is rockier than usual and water clarity is reasonable. Sand fleas as usual.

March 16th, 2016 by travis.downs

Directions:

Take the Puerto Escondido turnoff from Hwy 1. About 500m down that road, just before the RV park, take the dirt road on the right. There should be a small green chain link enclosed area on your right just after you turn off.

Follow the sign to El Quemadito beach at the fork, then take the left and right at the next forks respectively. The access road is clearly visible on Google Satellite view.

March 12th, 2016 by jiri.nikola

- about 20 spots on the beach, separated by bush
- snow birds are here for winter but some spots are empty
- we were there at afternoon and nobody came until morning to collect fee, but not sure if free
- shade and wind protected
- a lot of firewood
- nice view
- sandy/rocky beach
- take road to harbor from highway 1 and after 200m turn right to dirt road, follow the bigest road, its about 1,5 km to beach