The Far North · Boca de Chila · Platanitos · San Blas · Mexcaltitán · Costa Nayarit · Mexico

The Far North

North of Chacala the resorts run out and the real Mexico begins — a hundred kilometers of empty beaches, shrimp coves, a colonial naval capital, and an island that may be the birthplace of the Aztec people.

Past Chacala, the Riviera Nayarit lets go. The polished corridor of One&Only, Rosewood, and the Ritz-Carlton Reserve gives way to a long, wild shoreline of undeveloped Pacific beaches, river-mouth fishing villages, mangrove estuaries ringed with shrimp ponds, and palapas where a family grills your catch over mangrove charcoal. Mass tourism never reached this coast, for two honest reasons: it’s two-plus hours from the Vallarta airport, and the *jejenes* — the famous no-see-ums — have quietly kept the bulldozers away for fifty years. What’s left is the version of this coast long-time residents remember: a secret beach all to yourself, and a family that cooks your shrimp in garlic and butter for a third of Sayulita prices.

A word of candor, because you deserve it: this is not a market we actively serve, and we’ll tell you why. No resident luxury agents, no MLS, frequent ejido title that needs careful legal conversion, and owners who price rustic beach lots like they sit in Sayulita. We feature the Far North as a destination and a horizon — a place to go and fall in love with, and to watch. And the watching just got interesting: the new Tepic toll highway (late 2025) and United’s first-ever Houston–Tepic nonstops put a real airport about an hour from San Blas. The math up here is changing for the first time in half a century.