Albuquerque Alpacas

I came for the tour and bought a couple items at the shop. I had a great time! Very nice alpacas.

Five stars! We emailed the owners Skip and Stacie in advance for a tour date/​time and we had such a great time meeting all their furry children! All the alpacas are sweet and shy and some of them let you pet and hug them. The ranch gift shop was very cute and they offer lots of neat little trinkets made from alpaca fur as well as clothing and pictures. Much thanks to the wonderful owners for being so nice and showing us around and teaching us about their babies!
If you’re planning on visiting, remember to call or email in advance! Although they are very accommodating, it’s still a working alpaca ranch and they run the tours in their free time.

I went here with my mother in law looking for a hat for my husband for Christmas and I just can’t begin to tell you how incredibly nice Skip is. He went out of his way to help us to the point of calling ANOTHER Alpaca farm and asking them if they could open up shop for us. He was so much fun to be around, making us laugh and just generally being a great, friendly awesome guy! Can’t wait to go back in the spring and do a tour. I don’t know what the grouchy reviewer who gave one stars problem is. Clearly this is a small family business and they are not going to sit around all day waiting in their shop. Its not Walmart and they are not getting 100’s of people walking in there every day so it makes perfect sense they would be by appointment only as most alpaca farms and the like are (or they just have very limited times they are open). I highly recommend anyone with an interest in Alpacas give Albuquerque alpacas a call and stop by for a great time. One last thing I forgot to mention, SKip gave my 2 year old daughter a free alpaca wool finger puppet as a Christmas gift =) What nice people!

I only put one star because it’s not possible to leave none. Came here from Florida one of the things I was really looking forward to was buying scrumptious local yarn. What better than local alpaca yarn?
Unfortunately you have to call the place and make a reservation even to shop at the store! Phone reception at the b n b we are staying at is bad so i couldn’t call. I tried to email, 3 times, no reponse :(
so we knew we might not be able to take the tour because we hadn’t called. Imagine our disappointment when we got there and found a closed gate. they could have at least emailed back and told me they’d be closed! jerks! I won’t go back and I wouldn’t recommend anyone else try em either.