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Bentonville in the Baja: Rancho Cacachilas


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This Mountain Biking Mecca in Mexico Offers an Isolated Escape Into Nature   Rancho Cacachilas is the brainchild of billionaire Christy Walton, one of the heirs to the Walmart fortune. 

The ranch is about 2 hours from Los Cabos on the southerly end of the Baja Peninsula. 

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Christy Walton, one of the heirs to the Walmart fortune. Walton, 72, who held Forbes’s mantle as the world’s richest woman as recently as 2015, is the widow of John Walton (the middle of founder Sam Walton’s three sons), who died in 2005 when his experimental, ultralight plane crashed near Jackson, Wyo...

... A cycling resort in Mexico isn’t as off-brand for Walmart and the Walton clan as you might think. Her husband was an avid cyclist, she says, as are his brothers, Jim and Rob. Jim’s sons Tom and Steuart acquired a majority stake in Rapha, the high-end cycling apparel company, in 2017, and the family publicly entered the mountain-biking world in a big way over the past decade when the young brothers began transforming the land outside of Walmart’s headquarters in Bentonville, Ark., into a mountain-biking hot spot.

 

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