Farms by state · North Carolina
Alpaca farms in North Carolina
Compare 14 working farms across the mountains, Piedmont, and coastal plain, including nine farms with expanded profiles.
Plan a farm visit
Tours, trail walks, fiber farms, and pasture encounters
North Carolina alpaca farms range from appointment-only breeding operations to year-round visitor farms with stores, classes, yoga, private events, and guided walks. Open each listing for the farm’s address, visit format, website, and available full profile.
Schedules and booking rules can change with weather, farm work, and the season. Confirm the current experience with the farm before traveling, especially when a listing requires advance tickets or an appointment.
North Carolina directory
Choose a farm to explore
Farms marked Full profile include a separate page with expanded visitor details.
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AlpacaWaka Barn & Pastures is an appointment-only farm in Moyock where visitors can feed, pet, brush, and photograph alpacas. A mini cow, donkeys, and a miniature horse add other farm-animal encounters to the visit.
The farm also offers mobile alpaca appearances for private gatherings and events. Confirm the appointment, current visit format, paperwork, and arrival instructions directly before traveling.
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Alpacas at Cherry Run is a central North Carolina Huacaya breeding farm operated by Lori Cherry. The farm raises alpacas selected for conformation, fleece quality, health, and temperament, and uses its own fleece in handspun, felted, processed, and dyed fiber work.
Visits are appointment-only and are generally offered from September through May because of summer heat. The farm offers hands-on fiber-arts tours and sells finished fiber work through its Cherry Run Fiber Arts Studio.
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Apple Hill Farm is a family-owned working fiber farm in Banner Elk, founded in 2003. Its mountaintop animal family includes alpacas, llamas, angora goats, livestock guardians, and other animals, with a focus on guided education and agritourism.
The farm gives educational guided walking tours year-round, but advanced tickets are required to see the animals. It also hosts events and classes, sells animals, and operates both a farm store and online store with alpaca-fiber gifts, socks, yarn, and local goods.
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Carolina Pride Alpacas is a 75-acre Onslow County alpaca farm that specializes in fine fleece suited to spinners. The farm is an active member of regional alpaca organizations and maintains a herd and fiber operation in Maple Hill.
The farm asks visitors to contact it to schedule a tour or a farm-store visit. Its published visitor information supports educational tours and retail alpaca products, while weddings and outside stud services were not clearly confirmed on the reviewed sources.
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Carolina Sunshine Alpaca Farm is a year-round visitor farm west of Pittsboro. Guests can choose a self-paced PacaVisit along the public farm lanes or reserve a private, staff-led PacaTour focused on animal care, alpaca history, fleece, goats, barn cats, and livestock guardian dogs.
The farm also operates an alpaca-product store and rents its covered PacaParty Barn for birthdays, reunions, and group outings. Current hours, tour times, classes, and seasonal activities are published on the farm website.
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Empty Pockets Alpacas is included from the supplied North Carolina farm list. The available public material identifies it as an alpaca-fiber vendor that has participated in regional quilting and fiber-art marketplaces.
Its website was not available for a current first-party review, so a street address, visitor access, breeding services, and present-day operating details could not be verified. The service fields therefore avoid assumptions.
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Farm and Fleece is a veteran- and woman-owned Concord alpaca ranch that raises, breeds, and shows alpacas. It uses the herd's annually harvested fleece to create textiles and gifts, with proceeds directed back to animal care.
The ranch welcomes booked visitors for guided tours, alpaca yoga, and fiber-craft workshops. It is generally by appointment, with special public store hours during programs such as the NC Yarn Tour, and sells scarves, gloves, socks, blankets, rugs, yarn, and home goods.
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Good Karma Ranch is a small family-run, solar-powered alpaca fiber farm near Charlotte. It raises alpacas, harvests their renewable fiber annually, produces textiles, and combines farming with visitor education.
All on-farm experiences must be booked in advance. The ranch offers tours, alpaca yoga, group, school, and corporate activities, alpacas for sale, herdsires, sponsorships, and an online shop selling apparel, yarn, home goods, gifts, and accessories.
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Happy Hills Alpaca Farm is a small Monroe farm south of Charlotte that works with alpaca, sheep, and mohair fiber. It uses animal fleece to make handspun yarn, roving, clothing, blankets, felted goods, and other fiber products.
The farm has offered visits, fiber classes, and a farm store, generally asking visitors to call ahead or make an appointment. Recent business listings continue to identify it as a farm and alpaca-product vendor, although its own website was not available for a current first-party review.
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Hardly Farm is a family-owned alpaca farm in northeastern Franklin County, within about an hour of Raleigh. The working farm identifies itself as Alpacas in the Pines and keeps both Huacaya and Suri alpacas.
It offers tours, alpaca yoga, craft classes, field trips, annual events, birthday parties, weddings, and an on-site gift shop. The 2026 calendar includes National Alpaca Farm Days and yoga, indicating current operation and year-round visitor programming.
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Rainbow Magic Alpaca Farm is a 20-acre family farm in Greensboro where alpacas share pasture and woodland with heritage pigs, sheep, chickens, and livestock guardian dogs. Its public activities connect animal encounters with regenerative agriculture and fiber production.
Published visitor options include alpaca feeding, private interactions, school field trips, and a farm store carrying fiber goods and other farm products. Check the current schedule before arriving.
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Raynay Alpaca Farm is a Caswell County Suri-alpaca operation owned by Ray and Candy McMahan. The farm has operated since 2008, keeps a large herd on approximately 100 acres, breeds and shows alpacas, and provides animals for sale.
Tours are available by appointment, and the farm has a small alpaca-product store and bed-and-breakfast lodging. Current 2026 alpaca-auction material continues to list the farm, its address, and its contact information; published herd records also support outside breeding availability.
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Serenity Alpacas is a family-owned Stony Point farm near Statesville and Lake Norman. It gives visitors hands-on access to alpacas through educational tours, hugs tours, trail walks, photo experiences, school tours, and special farm events.
The farm also hosts birthday parties and private events and sells alpaca goods in its farm store and online. Products include socks, scarves, gifts, plush toys, and locally made or imported alpaca-fiber items; its published schedule and recent visitor reviews support current regular operation.
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Winchester Creek Farm is a family-owned 20-acre Waynesville farm in the Smoky Mountains that raises alpacas, llamas, and miniature farm animals. Its operation is built around public agritourism, educational programs, and a gift shop.
Advance tickets are required for tours, which run rain or shine unless conditions are unsafe. The farm offers educational and private group tours, field trips, birthday celebrations, holiday events, and alpaca yoga, and sells alpaca-fiber products, gifts, home decor, jewelry, and other goods in person and online.
Read the full Winchester Creek Farm profile
Understanding the listings
Choose the experience, not only the closest address
A farm centered on breeding and fiber may offer occasional appointment-only visits, while a visitor-focused operation may schedule tours, animal encounters, classes, and seasonal events throughout the year. The overview of different types of alpaca farms explains why public access and activities can differ so much between listings.
Families preparing for a first visit can also read about meeting alpacas calmly and safely. Understanding herd behavior, appropriate feeding, and the animal’s need for space helps visitors follow farm instructions and get more from either a guided tour or an informal pasture encounter.
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