Custom adventure travel intineraries

Santiago and La Cooperativa offer bilingual guide service for hiking, backpacking and canyoneering in the Batopilas, Urique, Sinforosa and Oteros canyons. Choose a custom itinerary with or without pack animal support that suits you or your group's physical abilities. Gather your own group or join a group list for a scheduled Cross Canyon Hike from Batopilas to Urique, the most popular itinerary for experiencing the heights and depths of the Canyons.

Home stay in a traditional Tarahumara festival center

Norogachi, elevation 7000', is a small and remote agricultural community in the high Sierra. La Presidente Martha Garcia offers homestay to individuals, families or groups year round. Homestay with Senora Garcia is an unparalleled opportunity to leave hotel travel behind and get close to both the Mestizo and the Tarahumara culture. Activities include horseback riding and hiking with local guides. Enjoy the hospitality of the people who live in this spectacular area!

Simply the best Copper Canyon native guide teams!

Santiago James Barnaby formed La Cooperativa in 1997 to improve the local economy of the friends he has made over the last 22 years of hiking the Sierra Tarahumara, and to offer visitors a more rustic, but intimate experience of the landscape and its inhabitants. He is a passionate conservationist and has introduced the local packers with whom he works to conservation practices. Pack it in, pack it out camping is a rule religiously observed.