Divisadero

Divisadero is the place most people picture when they think of the Copper Canyon. It is a stop on the Chihuahua al Pacífico railway (the Chepe), about 50 kilometers southwest of Creel, where the train halts on the canyon rim and the land simply falls away. From the viewpoints you look out over the meeting point of three canyons: Barranca del Cobre, Urique and Tararecua.

Right beside the station is the Parque de Aventura Barrancas del Cobre, a state-run park built on the edge of the canyon. Its cable car crosses about three kilometers to the Mesa de Bacajípare without intermediate towers, and nearby Rarámuri communities use it free of charge. For more adrenaline there is a circuit of seven zip lines with suspension bridges, a long single-run ZipRider, and a via ferrata. The cable car and zip lines reopened in August 2025 after a maintenance shutdown.

Even without the rides, Divisadero is worth the trip for the rim walk, the food stalls run by local families, and the Rarámuri women selling baskets near the tracks. The light is best early and late in the day, when the canyon walls turn copper and gold.