Rancho Los Volcanes Airport

As a private airstrip, the closure was almost certainly due to economic reasons or a change in the owner's needs. The most probable cause is that the owner of the 'Rancho Los Volcanes' no longer required an active runway or found the cost of maintenance and upkeep to be prohibitive. There is no evidence to suggest the closure was a result of a specific accident, government action, or military conversion.

The airport is permanently closed and completely reclaimed by nature. Current satellite imagery shows the former dirt/gravel runway is heavily overgrown with desert scrubland. While the faint outline of the approximately 3,600-foot runway can still be discerned from the air, it is completely unusable for any aviation purposes. The land has reverted to being undeveloped ranch land.

Rancho Los Volcanes Airport was a private-use airstrip with local, not national, significance. Its sole purpose was to serve the large, remote ranch on which it was located. Operations would have been limited to general aviation, handling small, single-engine propeller aircraft (like Cessna or Piper models) capable of landing on a short, unpaved runway. It provided the ranch's owners and guests with convenient access, bypassing the remote and rugged terrestrial routes. It was never a commercial airport and did not handle scheduled passenger or cargo flights.

There are no known plans or prospects for reopening Rancho Los Volcanes Airport. Given its status as a private field that has been abandoned for over a decade and its complete state of disrepair, a reopening is extremely unlikely. It would require a substantial private investment by the landowner to clear, regrade, and potentially certify the airstrip, for which there is no apparent public or commercial incentive.