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Rancho Sol Dorado · 12 minutes from San Miguel de Allende

Follow the trail home.

Ride for two hours. Stay a night. Or stay for good.

Three riders walk their horses toward you down the white cobbled ranch road, a black, a chestnut and a grey.

Two hoursAges 6+Vaqueros leadBook online

Two hours on horseback.

Our vaqueros lead you out past the corrals and into the canyon trails, at a pace your whole group can ride. Riders of every level go out every day, on a gentle herd of Azteca, Criollo, Quarter and Andalusian horses.

Pick your light.

Three rides a day, an hour and a half to two hours each. Ride with a small group, or book the vaqueros for your party alone.

Riders on a tree-lined ranch lane in soft morning light. A rider in a straw hat between tall organ cactus in bright afternoon sun. A line of riders heading down a pale trail toward a pink sunset.

$2,700 MXN per rider (from $150 USD)

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Times and openings from the ranch's FareHarbor calendar. Booking closes 24 hours ahead.

The ranch's stable courtyard at night: lavender beds around a stone fountain, lamps glowing along the portales.

Twelve minutes out of town, the lights give out.

0 stars above the horizon you could see

Naked-eye limit 3.5. Roughly 4 in a lit town, 6 on a dark ranch.

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Where stars are brighter than city lights.

This is the real sky over the corrals at 10 pm on the night you choose: every star, the moon in its true phase, the planets where they will be. Spend it here, in one of our Club Suites.

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For good5,000 m² sitesWalled, gatedRequest a tour

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Ranch sites of 1.25 acres and up inside 120 walled, gated acres, some fronting parkland near the Club. The homes take their cue from old Mexican houses: a round window placed for the morning light, a balcony in the shade of a 300-year-old mesquite.

Twenty-two years on this land.

In 2004 a chance meeting with a famous horseman, a bit of fate and the charm of San Miguel brought Mario, Holly and their daughter Olivia to raw land. The ranch grew up around the nopales and the old mesquites.

Mario Ortiz with his young daughter Olivia in a dry pasture.
2004 Mario Ortiz and his daughter Olivia, on the raw land.
An early photograph of the riding arena with hills behind.
2008 The riding arena. The stables and Casa Destino came first.
Mario and Holly Ortiz, black and white, among agave.
2010 Founding partners Mario and Holly Ortiz.
Building works on the ranch seen from above, an off-road vehicle beside them.
2015 Construction begins on the Wellness Center.
Friends and a dog walking beside the pool on the lawn.
2018 · 2022 The Sol Dorado terrace opens, then the solar-heated pool.
Guests around a table under the stable portal, a husky beside them.
2024 Holly and Mario partner with The Querencia Group, the team behind Querencia in San José del Cabo, to make the ranch a home for others.
Rendering of the Wellness Center's exterior among lavender.
Coming soon The Wellness Center (spa, gym, plunge pools, rooftop yoga), the Sol Dorado restaurant, a tack room and a new Main Gate. Rendering, subject to change.

The masterplan, phase by phase: stables, arena, corrals, the Club, parkland and the ranch sites around them.

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A grey horse tied at a post under a great mesquite, lavender all around, the tiled roof of the portal at the edge.

All trails lead home.

Whatever you picked on the way down, it is waiting here.

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Sunset trail ride

4:30 to 6:30 pm, with a group

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Your site

About 5,000 m²

Walled, gated, near the Club

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