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Route 37D from Feliciano Gro., to Patzcuaro, Michoacan
Approx. distance: 238 Kms
Approx. driving time: 2.25 hours
Toll costs (2005): $199 pesos
Above time, distance and tolls is for stretch between the Feliciano turnoff and Patzcuaro. This great new route has cut the travel time between Ixtapa/Zihuatanejo and Patzcuaro is between 2.5 and 3 hours.
One of Mexico's newest highway routes now completed is Highway 37D, connecting Uruapan, Patzcuaro and Morelia, Michoacan, with Lázaro Cárdenas, Mich. and Ixtapa/Zihuatanejo, Gro.
Also called Carreterra "Siglo XXI" (the XXI Century Expressway), the new 270 km. highway 37D is a fabulous alternative to Federal Highway 37, cutting several hours of driving time over the curves of the coastal mountains between Nueva Italia and Highway 200 running along the Pacific Coast.
Driving inland from Ixtapa/Zihuatanejo, the turnoff onto this new route at Km. 70 of coastal highway 200 near the town of Feliciano, first takes you into the dry, stark hills of Guerrero, with little to view during the first 20-25 minutes but a couple of shanty villages and dusty herds of goats.
One crosses from the state of Guerrero into Michoacan at the Rio Balsas Bridge near the town of Pitiriera and the CFE dam at Infiernillo. The section of road from this point to the El Tigre tunnel, which takes one along one finger of the Presa Infiernillo (Infiernillo Lake) and over another large bridge that spans yet another finger of the lake, is the last part to have been finished and finally opened in the summer of 2005.
Tolls are now being charged all the way from the Feliciano turnoff to Patzcuaro. As on most roads in Mexico, no matter how well transited and maintained, night travel is not recommended. There are still no gas stations on the Feliciano - Nueva Italia stretch of the highway although it probably won't be long before they begin sprouting up. When coming from Ixtapa/Zihuatanejo, it's a good idea to gas up at La Union.
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