Camuchín

The hike to Camuchín an abandoned mine starts out badly. Just after you leave the central plaza in the direction of Satevó you cross a little bridge. For Camuchín duck under the bridge and follow the stream bed. The stream meanders about on the flat gravel bed splitting and rejoining so you have to keep jumping streamlets to keep your feet dry. Fortunately this is the worst part of the hike so you'll know right away whether there's too much water for you to make it. Once you reach the stream's fork things get better. You take a foot trail that goes between the branches and then follow the stream on the right up a pretty leafy canyon with many cascades and cataracts. At the end there's some scrambling over boulders to be done and then you reach the old mine. Before going inside check the floor of the mine to see if it's flooded. There are the remains of some ore-processing equipment a little further on.

On the way back there's nothing to stop you from going up some of the other canyons. You can't get lost because you just have to follow the water downstream back to Batopilas.