Eastern Terminus: Chihuahua City

Updated by Grant Cogswell

For a city ringed with highways and pocked by parking lots, Chihuahua has a very pleasant center. Here you'll find a pair of pretty plazas and more trees than you will probably see in any northern city of comparable size. Chihuahua, with a population of 670,000, feels considerably smaller than it is. Its two good museums are tied to key figures in the nation's history: Pancho Villa, the mustachioed revolutionary who helped overthrow Dictator Porfirio Díaz in 1910, and Padre Miguel Hidalgo, the priest known as the father of Mexican independence.

Tours by Trolley

Sponsored by the state tourism office, the Trolley Turístico El Tarahumara (Palacio de Gobierno, Plaza Hidalgo, Centro, Chihuahua. 614/429-3596) stops at every tourist sight in the city. The trolley departs every hour from 9 to 1 and 3 to 7 daily except Monday. The $3 fare allows you to ride four times in the same day.