La Cumbrecita is a pedestrian village. You leave the car at the entrance and walk in, and the town is kept that way deliberately — a small cluster of chalets, tea houses and guesthouses scattered through pine and oak woods on the slopes of the Sierras Grandes, at around 1,450 metres. It was founded in the 1930s by a family of German-Swiss origin, and it still feels more like the Alps than like Argentina.
The walking is the point. Short, well-marked paths lead through the woods to La Cascada, a small waterfall, and to river pools cold enough to be bracing even in January. Longer trails go up onto the ridges above the village. None of it is demanding, and it suits families.
It is forty kilometres of winding road beyond Villa General Belgrano, so most visitors pair the two. Stay a night if you can: day-trippers leave in the late afternoon, and the village is very quiet after they go.
On summer weekends and holidays the car park fills and it can feel crowded for such a small place; come midweek.