24) is a free part of the federal highways corridors (Spanish: corredores carreteros federales).

This section lies between the villages of Los Frailes, Durango, on the east, and Soyatita (also known as El Sabino), Sinaloa, on the west.

24 then extends in a southerly direction for 184 km to Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua.

From Hidalgo del Parral, the finished section of paved highway going west runs some 220 km in a southwesterly direction to a highway junction at Las Yerbitas (Aserradero Yerbites), passing through El Vergel.

The highway is graded in all of this section, and is paved for only about 20 km after leaving the junction at Las Yerbitas.

From the Las Yerbitas junction, a paved highway runs west for 25 km to Guadalupe y Calvo.

24 was intended to extend southwest to cross the Sierra Madre Occidental mountain range to the coastal area of Culiacan in Sinaloa.

The east end of the highway is graded beyond the village of Los Frailes, Durango (Lat.

Travelers can drive between these two points on a commonly used dirt road, but this roadway is neither graded or paved.

24 travelers passing through this gap, about midway in this uncompleted section is the village of Huixiopa, Sinaloa (Lat.

In crossing the last unfinished gap, the highway construction will have to complete an all-weather road that conveys vehicles over this 1,930 meter elevation change.

Until then, the traveler crossing this gap will have to negotiate this very significant change in elevation on dirt roads.

As noted above, because of the maze of unsigned roads in the central section, the traveler can get lost.

24 lies in the heart of the rugged Sierra Madre Occidental, and the road passes within 1 km of the point where the borders of Chihuahua, Durango and Sinaloa meet.