Chihuahua is Mexico's largest state, a vast expanse of high desert, pine-covered sierra, and one of the world's great canyon systems. It is home to the Copper Canyon (Barranca del Cobre), a network of gorges deeper and larger than the Grand Canyon, crossed by the legendary El Chepe railway. The state blends Rarámuri indigenous culture, Mennonite farming communities, and the ranching and revolutionary history of Pancho Villa's home city, Chihuahua City.
Luxury hotels
Five-star and palace properties.
Hotel Divisadero Barrancas
The only hotel built directly on the canyon rim at Divisadero, with every room opening onto a private balcony over the Barranca del Cobre. Forty-eight rooms, a restaurant with panoramic terrace seating, and direct walking access to the adjacent zipline and cable-car adventure park make it the marquee stay for viewing Mexico's largest canyon system.
Hotel Mirador
A sixty-five-room hotel perched at one of the highest viewpoints on the canyon edge, part of the Balderrama Hotel Collection that operates several of the Copper Canyon's best-known lodges. Every guest room has a canyon-facing view, and the terrace restaurant serves as the main gathering point for sunrise and sunset over the barranca.
Sheraton Chihuahua Soberano
The state capital's flagship international hotel, a 204-room business property with a pool, fitness center, and executive-level rooms that anchor Chihuahua City's upper end of accommodation for travelers pairing the capital with a Copper Canyon rail itinerary.
Hotel Posada del Hidalgo
A restored colonial hacienda in the center of El Fuerte, the traditional gateway town for El Chepe train departures toward the Copper Canyon. Seventy-two rooms surround courtyards and gardens, with a pool, spa services, and an included shuttle to the rail station.
The Lodge at Creel Hotel & Spa
A wood-cabin lodge in the pines above Creel, the most complete wellness facility in the Sierra Tarahumara, with a jacuzzi, sauna, gym, and fireplace-warmed honeymoon cabins that give the property a mountain-lodge character distinct from the canyon-rim hotels below.
Fine dining
Michelin-starred and chef-driven restaurants.
La Casa de los Milagros
A historic-center restaurant-bar in a restored colonial building a few blocks from the cathedral, regarded as Chihuahua City's most celebrated dining room, known for its ribeye and its bohemian live-music atmosphere.
Retablo Restaurant Bar Mexicano
A long-standing Chihuahua City restaurant serving northern Mexican grilled specialties and regional dishes in a converted historic-center building near the main hotels.
Hotel Divisadero Barrancas Restaurant
The panoramic terrace restaurant at the canyon-rim Hotel Divisadero Barrancas serves regional Tarahumara-influenced dishes to guests and day visitors watching the sunset over the Barranca del Cobre.
Exclusive experiences
Bespoke and once-in-a-lifetime activities.
El Chepe Express First Class, Los Mochis to Creel
The first-class service on the Ferrocarril Chihuahua al Pacifico crosses 37 bridges and 86 tunnels through the Sierra Tarahumara, with reclining seats, a dining and bar car, panoramic windows, and a terraced observation car that opens onto the canyon scenery.
Copper Canyon Adventure Park Zipline and Cable Car
A circuit of seven ziplines plus the record-length Ziprider cable, launching from a platform beside Divisadero across the Barranca del Cobre, paired with a cable car offering sweeping canyon panoramas and a via ferrata rock-climbing route.
Private Copper Canyon Rail and Hiking Charter
A chartered guide and vehicle combine train segments on El Chepe with guided hikes to Tarahumara cave dwellings, the Cusarare waterfall, and canyon-floor viewpoints inaccessible on a standard rail itinerary.
Batopilas Canyon-Floor Overnight
A descent by paved mountain road from Creel to the colonial silver-mining town of Batopilas at the bottom of the canyon, dropping more than 1,800 meters into a warmer, subtropical microclimate lined with 19th-century haciendas.
Spas & wellness
World-class spa retreats and treatments.
The Lodge at Creel Spa
The most developed wellness facility in the Sierra Tarahumara, with an indoor jacuzzi, sauna, and gym alongside fireplace-warmed cabins, popular with guests recovering from a day of canyon hiking or the Ziprider.
Posada del Hidalgo Spa Services
In-hacienda spa treatments in a restored colonial courtyard setting, offered alongside the hotel's pool as a relaxation stop before or after an El Chepe train departure from El Fuerte.
Luxury transport
Travel in style.
- Overview
- Chihuahua's marquee luxury transport is rail, not road: the El Chepe Express first-class service is the most comfortable way to move through the Sierra Tarahumara, supplemented by private drivers for the mountain routes to Batopilas and Cuauhtemoc that the train does not reach.