Rancho Las Cascadas

With her passion for horses and design, Swiss owner, Uschi was looking for a place to create her dream. She found a peacful piece of land in the rural countryside of the beautiful Mexican Highlands and that was the place where she built Rancho Las Cascadas.

An ambitious concept, but one which she has successfully brought into being!

On her frequent visits to her beloved cultural town of San Miguel de Allende, the idea was born to provide the guests this fantastic experience in addition to the ranch.

Sister properties were acquired, and now guests can create their own intriguing mix of cultural activities and horseback riding.

Uschi and her team of talented and welcoming employees have worked hard to build this unique holiday experience, and they look forward to your visit and hope you will enjoy your stay.

Uschi Wiprachtiger Schreyer is the proud owner of Rancho Las Cascadas. She began her career in tourism by working all over the world as a tour guide. Her last job brought her to Cancun and Playa del Carmen, where she stayed for 8 years organizing cultural tours by airplane to many interesting places in the Mayan world.

However, she found the climate too hot and humid, and decided to move to Mexico City, in the high plains of Mexico. There she worked in publicity making announcements with aircrafts over the city. She found, as many of us do, that city life was too busy and crazy for her. She began to look for a weekend house in the countryside and found the perfect place in San Agustin Buenavista. Here she enjoys the wonderful sun of Mexico without the humidity of the coast, as the ranch is situated in the high plains on an altitude of 2300 mt / 7500 ft.

She started building her house and it got bigger and bigger, as she love houses with patios (courtyards). It became too big for her and she thought of starting a business with people from Mexico City coming out to the countryside. She thought of offering horse rides for a day or two. When she started riding, she found out that there were many more rides through different regions with different vegetations, canyons, valleys, climbs and descents. The rides are so varied that you can ride for more than two weeks and discover new scenery every day. She then decided that she should share the beauty of this land with friends from all over the world.

So it was not the idea of a guest ranch that sent her looking for the ideal place. The ideal place asked to be shown to all those who are open to experience a small wonder every day. From this vision Rancho Las Cascadas was born.

She has truly found the perfect place with a climate which truly makes it a paradise with 333 days of sunshine a year.

Enjoy 333 days of sunshine a year at Rancho Las Cascadas! With midday temperatures around 75f/22c, the climate is one of the most incredible features at this 7500ft/2300m altitude. In January, you can expect cool crisp mornings with temperatures soaring into the mid 20s(c) during the day! Pack lots of layers!