Sian Ka'an Vistor Center — Attraction in Quintana Roo

What a journey this road is. Stunning views, seclusion, and out right adventure. A few points and references for others wishing to travel this national park road.

First - to the people giving this one star and complaining about road conditions, you do realize this is a developing nation rife with corruption and extortions, right? You also realize you’re entering a national park in the jungle, correct? The majority of people here at this national park do it for a love of their land and conservationism. This is not some toll road autobahn in your country of choice.

I drove this for 3 days during my stay in Tulum. I had a beat up 150cc scooter. If you’re new to scooters/motorbikes, probably going to be more stressful than fun if you aren’t up for an adventure. I am certainly not an expert, but having lived remote in se asia for a few years, this terrain was familiar. There will be other vehicles on the road and some traveling very fast, so you really need to pay attention and scan ahead. I also don’t recommend carrying a passenger. It can get slippery and some of these potholes are no joke. Not worth it imo.

If you do decide to make a day trip out of it, I highly recommend it. I covered about 30 miles (48km) before turning around at my fuel point. There are no gas stations anywhere so pay attention to your levels or carry some extra with you.

I brought my snorkel gear, and once you pass the bridge, about 20 minutes ahead is a cove where you can snorkel or hang out at the beach. There are many hidden areas to take photographs on public land. You just have to go slow, and take it all...

Long slow drive out dodging potholes. The visitor center wasn’t clearly marked- I didn’t know they had one- would have been nice to check it out. We were on the road through Tulum and it ended here, so paid the 100 pesos per person to have the guard move the cones and let us enter. Kept hoping the land would be narrow enough to see ocean on one side and turquoise bay on the other, but the palm trees were so thick we couldn’t see anything but road and trees most of the time. We were in a two wheel drive so it was slow, but made it to a bridge that was high enough to look around and then turned back. Most land on the sides was private, but there were a few little random trails to go take a peak at the water. Lots of blue colored crabs with white claws, giant lizards and iguanas, and we did see a few monkey-raccoon looking creatures climbing in the trees. There’s lots of seaweed on the coast right now, and some white birds with long legs were feeding in it. There is a lot of trash and beer bottles on the road and shore. Was thinking they they should give everyone a cool patch or sticker for bringing a bag of beach trash back. Wish I had a bag, I would have picked a bit up. It was a slow but interesting and a bit adventurous...

Beautiful road. But, as others have indicated, it's almost all private and trash is scattered everywhere. What's the point of having a reserve if you can't go anywhere or see anything aside from the main road and one small public beach? It's a bunch of private land - not a protected wildlife reserve. If there were a single trail I'd feel better about this. But there's nothing. Like most of Tulum, it's all just another attempt to get more cash from visitors. All I wanted was to go see some nature, but you can't do that at a "biological reserve" here because everything is developed and private.

They paved paradise to put up a...