The Best Place to Shop in Taos, New Mexico

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Retail options on Taos Plaza consist mostly of T-shirt emporiums and souvenir shops that are easily bypassed, though a few stores carry quality Native American artifacts and jewelry. The more distinctive galleries and boutiques begin barely a block north on Bent Street, including the John Dunn House Shops, and extend just east on Kit Carson Road (U.S. 64). You'll find another notable cluster of galleries and shops, along with a few good restaurants, up north in Arroyo Seco.

Overland Sheepskin Company

El Prado

This spacious Taos store carries high-quality sheepskin coats, hats, mittens, accessories, rugs, slippers, and more. The location is the first Overland Sheepskin Co. opened in 1973 in a small adobe near Taos Plaza, and now it is part of a network of 17 stores, mostly in the American West. The gorgeous setting of the current Taos store––in the shadows of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, amid a complex of several other shops and restaurants––is itself a reason for a visit.