Name
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State
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Fair Site and Type†
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Setting and Info
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Start Date
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Stage, Area, Amenities≠
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When Held
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Highest Patron Count≠
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References and External Links
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Age of Chivalry Renaissance Festival
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Nevada
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Sunset Park, Paradise; recurring event
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Five Renaissance villages; Renaissance, Hobbits, Fantasy
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1994
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4 stages; limited camping; RVs≠
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(10b) mid-October (3 days)
|
11k
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LV Ren Fair
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Alabama Renaissance Faire
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Alabama
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Wilson Park; Florence; recurring event
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The shire of Fountain on the Green
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1987
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2 stages; pets OK; free admission≠
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(10d) 4th Weekend of October (2 days)
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30k - 40k
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Alabama's official state renaissance fair Al Ren Faire
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Arizona Renaissance Festival
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Arizona
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Gold Canyon, Pinal County; permanent site
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Village of Fairhaven
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1989
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12 stages; 300 acres≠
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(02a) early February–April (7 weekends)
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265k≠ (2004)
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Arizona RenFest
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Bay Area Renaissance Festival
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Florida
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Withlacoochee River Park, Pasco County; recurring event
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Village of Fittleworth during the reign of Henry VIII and Katherine Parr; Germanic mercenaries, Celts, fantasy elements
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1979
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10 stages; 260 acres; parking; tailgating; dogs allowed≠
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(02b) mid-February–early April (7 weekends)
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80k (1990s)
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Bay Area RenFest
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Brevard Renaissance Fair[1]
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Florida
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Wickham Park, Melbourne; semi-permanent site
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Wickham Forest; Viking, Celts; Pirates; Heroes; Fantasy
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2015
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9 stages; 20 acres; pets allowed
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(02a) January–February (5 weekends)
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70k≠
(2020)
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Brevard Renaissance Fair
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Bristol Renaissance Faire[2]
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Wisconsin
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Bristol; permanent site
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1574 Bristol, England; Tudor, some fantasy aspects;[3]
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1972*
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16 stages; 30 fair acres; parking≠
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(07b) July–Labor Day weekend (8 weekends)
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400k[4][5] (1990)
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*Opened 1972 as King Richard's Fair; renamed 1988 Bristol Faire
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Camelot Days Medieval Festival[6]
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Florida
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Topeekeegee Yugnee Park, Hollywood; recurring event
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Arthurian times, c.1100
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2003
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3 stages; free admission; city parking; service animals only≠
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(11b) mid-November (2 weekends)
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<5k (2012)
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Camelot Days
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Canterbury Renaissance Faire
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Oregon
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Silverton; semi-permanent
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Village of Canterbury; Elizabethan England (1560–1600)
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2009
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3 stages, 6+ acres; parking–shuttle≠
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(07c) last two weekends in July
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10k (2012)
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Canterbury Faire
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Carolina Renaissance Festival[7]
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North Carolina
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Huntersville; permanent site
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Marketplace at the "Village of Fairhaven"; knights, sea fairies, fantasy
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1994
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10 stages, 25 acres; free parking≠
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(10a) October–November (8 weekends)
|
210k (2017)
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Carolina Renaissance Festival
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Central Coast Renaissance Faire[8]
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California
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Laguna Lake Park; San Luis Obispo, California; recurring event
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The 1585 Shire of Donneybrook, England; Renaissance period
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1992
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3 stages; paid public parking
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(07b) mid-July (1 week)
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7k≠ (2022)
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Central Coast Renaissance Faire
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Colorado Renaissance Festival
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Colorado
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Larkspur; permanent site
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A 16th-century Tudor village of King Henry and Queen Anne; pirates, fantasy elements
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1975
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7 stages; 60 fair acres; 338 total acres; camping; parking≠
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(06c) mid-June–August (8 weekends)
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250k (2017)[9]
|
Colorado Renaissance
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Connecticut Renaissance Faire (Fall)
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Connecticut
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Lebanon; semi-permanent
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Harvest Festival at the Village of Lebanshire; Elizabethan England, cosplay, time travelers, romance
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1999
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8 stages; parking; pets allowed;≠
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(09a) early September–mid-October (7 weekends)
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50k≠ (2022)
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CT Faire
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Robin Hood's Medieval Faire[10]
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Connecticut
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Fairgrounds, Connecticut; semi-permanent
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Nottingham Forest, England (c.476 – 1400 AD); Robin Hood; cosplay; fantasy elements
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2010
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5 stages; pets week
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(05b) mid-May–July (6 weekends)
|
unk (2013)[11]
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Robin Hoods Faire
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Florida Renaissance Festival – Deerfield Beach
|
Florida
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Quiet Waters Park, Deerfield Beach
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16th-century
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1993
|
stages
|
(02a) February–March (4 weekends)
|
90k (2012)
|
Florida RenFest
|
Florida Renaissance Festival – Miami
|
Florida
|
Cauley Square Historic Village, Miami; semi-permanent
|
Early 16th-century village
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2009
|
stages
|
(04a) April
|
45k (2012)
|
Florida RenFest
|
Georgia Renaissance Festival
|
Georgia
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Fairburn; permanent
|
Village of Newcastle, during the reign of King Henry VIII
|
1986
|
32 acres
|
(04c) mid-April–June
|
250k (2004)[12]
|
Georgia Ren Fest
|
Great Lakes Medieval Faire and Marketplace
|
Ohio
|
Rock Creek; permanent
|
13th-century forest Kingdom of Avaloch; historic, fantasy, super-heroes, futuristic
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1992
|
13 fair acres
|
(07a) early July–mid-August (6 weekends)
|
45k (2007)
|
Medieval Faire
|
Great Plains Renaissance Festivals
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Kansas
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Wichita
|
Shire of Talonterra, 1300 AD
|
2004
|
stages
|
(04b) mid-April and (10b) mid-October
|
unk
|
Great Plains
|
Hoggetowne Medieval Faire
|
Florida
|
Alachua County Fairgrounds, Gainesville; permanent
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Village of Hoggetowne, during King Arthur's reign
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1987
|
stages
|
(01c) late January–early February
|
50k (2011)[13]
|
Hoggetowne Fair
|
Kansas City Renaissance Festival
|
Kansas
|
Bonner Springs; permanent
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1536 in Canterbury; Henry VIII, pirates, some fantasy, Robin Hood
|
1977
|
16 acres
|
(09a) September–mid-October
|
200k 2022)[14]
|
Kansas City RenFest
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Kentucky Highland Renaissance Festival
|
Kentucky
|
Eminence; permanent
|
Briarwood, Scotland during the 14th-century reign of King Robert the Bruce
|
2005
|
113 acres
|
(06a) early June–early July
|
25k
|
Highlands Ren Faire
|
King Richard's Faire
|
Massachusetts
|
Carver; permanent
|
16th-century Village of Carvershire marketplace
|
1982
|
stages; 80 acres, 10 festival acres (approx.)
|
(09a) September–late October
|
unk
|
King Richard's Faire
|
Koroneburg Renaissance Festival
|
California
|
Riverview Recreation Park, Corona; permanent[15]
|
Baron Heinrich von Lauffer's estate, in a German village located along the Rhine, c.1450–1600
|
1998[16]
|
5 stages; 120-acre park; 9 festival acres[17]
|
(05b) last weekend of May–June (5 weekends)
|
unk
|
Koroneburg Renaissance Festival
|
Louisiana Renaissance Festival
|
Louisiana
|
Hammond
|
Fall harvest in the 16th-century English Village ofAlbright
|
1999
|
stages
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(11a) early November – mid-December
|
25k (2007)[18]
|
Louisiana Renaissance
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Maryland Renaissance Festival
|
Maryland
|
Crownsville; permanent
|
Village of Revel Grove, a Tudor village
|
1977
|
25 fair acres; 85 parking acres
|
(08c) late August–late October (5 weekends)
|
280k (2012)[19]
|
Maryland Renaissance Festival
|
Medieval Fair of Norman, Oklahoma
|
Oklahoma
|
Reaves Park, Norman; recurring event
|
London, under the reign of King Edward III c.1350; some fantasy elements
|
1977
|
6 stages, 25 acres, free admission
|
(04a) First weekend (Fri—Sun) in April
|
350k (2015)[20]
|
Medieval Fair of Norman
|
Michigan Renaissance Festival
|
Michigan
|
Holly; permanent
|
Hollygrove Village, late 16th-century England
|
1979
|
100 acres; 17 acres (festival grounds)
|
(08b) mid-August–end of September (6 weekends)
|
230k (2004)[12]
|
Michigan Renaissance Festival
|
Mid-Michigan Renaissance Festival
|
Michigan
|
Frankenmuth/Vasser; permanent
|
Queen Anna of Bohemia, Martin Luther, mythical and fantasy characters
|
2008
|
5 fair acres; 12 parking acres
|
(06a) June
|
unk
|
Mid-Michigan RenFest
|
Middlefaire Renaissance Festival
|
Texas
|
Hillsboro; permanent
|
1652 AD in "Wiltonshire"; buccaneers, baroque characters, fantasy elements, 3 events (June: Texas Pirate Festival; July: Magical & Medieval Fantasy Faire November: Middlefaire).
|
2006
|
21 acres; camping
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(06a) early June: T.P.F. (07b) mid-July: M&M Fest (10c) late October: Middlefaire
|
-5k (2012)
|
Texas Middlefaire Events
|
Midsummer Fantasy Renaissance Faire
|
Connecticut
|
Warsaw Park, Ansonia
|
The Anleighshire, Kingdom of Cuulayne; fictional King Tonitrus; fantasy immersion
|
2011
|
parking
|
(06b) mid-June–July (3 weeknds)
|
unk
|
Midsummer Fantasy Renaissance Faire
|
Minnesota Renaissance Festival
|
Minnesota
|
Shakopee; permanent
|
16th-century "England-like" fantasy kingdom
|
1971
|
stages; 22 acres
|
(08b) mid-August–September (6 weekends)
|
300k (2012)
|
Minnesota Renaissance Festival
|
Mythical & Medieval Fest
|
South Carolina
|
RH Acres, Myrtle Beach
|
Renaissance times; Fantasy, Viking, Pirates
|
2014
|
15 acres
|
(11b) 2nd weekend in November
|
-5k (in 2019)
|
Mythical & Medieval Fest
|
New Hampshire Renaissance Faire
|
New Hampshire
|
Fremont, temporary
|
Undetermined period; annual charity event
|
2004
|
–
|
(05b) Mid-May for two consecutive weekends
|
appx. 4500
|
New Hampshire RenFaire
|
New Jersey Renaissance Faire
|
New Jersey
|
Liberty Lake Day Camp and Picnic Grove, Bordentown; permanent
|
16th-century fictional Village of Crossford, Northumberland; historical and fictional "visitors from time" such as Shakespeare, Robin Hood, King Arthur; fantasy elements
|
2009
|
60 acres (including 7 acre lake)
|
(05d) Last weekend in May (3 weekends)
|
12k (2015)[21]
|
New Jersey Renaissance Faire
|
New York Renaissance Faire
|
New York
|
Tuxedo; permanent
|
The fictional Town of Sterling in late 16th-century Elizabethan England
|
1977
|
20 stages; 65 acres[22]
|
(08a) August–September (6 weekends)
|
140k (2010)[23]
|
Ren Faire–NY
|
Northern California Renaissance Faire
|
California
|
Hollister
|
Village of Willingtown, Derbyshire; mid-1600s
|
2004
|
stages; 11 acres
|
(09b) mid-September–mid-October (6 weekends)
|
150k[24]
|
NorCal RenFaire
|
Nottingham Festival
|
California
|
Simi Valley; Recurring
|
Town of Nottingham, Elizabethan England
|
2013
|
–
|
(11a) November
|
unk
|
Nottingham Festival
|
Ohio Renaissance Festival
|
Ohio
|
Harveysburg; permanent
|
1572 AD in the English Village of Willy-Nilly-on-the-Wash
|
1990
|
30 acres
|
(09a) September–October (9 weekends)
|
180k
|
Renaissance Festival
|
Oklahoma Renaissance Festival
|
Oklahoma
|
Muskogee; permanent
|
1569 in Elizabethan Castleton, on the border of Scotland and England
|
1995
|
30 fair acres; 40 acres parking; 22 stages
|
(04b) Late April through first weekend June (6weekends)
|
88k (2017)
|
The Castle of Muskogee
|
Oregon Renaissance Faire
|
Oregon
|
Canby;
|
1563 in the Scottish Vale of Dunrose; features Mary, Queen of Scots
|
2016
|
stages ?
|
(06a) Early June (2 weekends)
|
unk
|
Oregon Renaissance Faire
|
Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire
|
Pennsylvania
|
Mount Hope Estate Manheim; permanent
|
Shire of Mount Hope; features Marlowe, Shakespeare and Elizabeth I, Tudor theme (ag: Henry VIII)
|
1981
|
stages; 35 acres
|
(08a) August–October (thirteen weekends)
|
250k[5]
|
Penn Faire
|
Pittsburgh Renaissance Festival
|
Pennsylvania
|
West Newton; permanent
|
16th century Morelandshire
|
1994
|
20 fair acres; 280 parking acres
|
(08c) late August–September (6 weekends)
|
55k (2005)
|
Pittsburgh RenFest
|
Ren in the Glen
|
Wisconsin
|
Glenwood City; recurring event
|
"Thornberry;" Medieval, Renaissance, Fantasy
|
2012
|
5 Stages; free parking, dogs allowed
|
(07d) Last weekend in July (2 days)
|
<1k (2014)
|
Ren in the Glen
|
Renaissance Festival of Nebraska
|
Nebraska
|
Papillion
|
"Crownsbury" 15th to 16th century
|
2008
|
8 Festival acres: 20 parking acres
|
(05a) First 2 weekends in May
|
11k (2018)
|
Renaissance Festival of Nebraska
|
The Maine Renaissance Faire
|
Maine
|
Acton, Maine; moving to Springvale, Maine
|
unspecified
|
2019
|
9 stages
|
(07c) Last 2 weekends in July
|
unknown
|
The Maine Renaissance Faire
|
Renaissance Pleasure Faire of Southern California
|
California
|
Santa Fe Dam Recreation Area; Irwindale; Recurring
|
The late 16th-century market at Port Deptford
|
1962
|
20 acres[25]
|
(04a) April–late May
|
200k (2004)[12]
|
Oldest Ren-Faire in the US SoCal RenFair
|
Riverdale Kiwanis Medieval Faire
|
Florida
|
Lakes Park, Ft. Myers
|
Medieval period, 900 – 1300 AD
|
1996
|
–
|
(01b) mid-January (2 weekends)
|
unk
|
Medieval Faire
|
St. Louis Renaissance Festival
|
Missouri
|
Wentzville; permanent
|
16th-century Petit Lyon, France during a visit from King François I
|
1999
|
stages
|
(09a) mid-September–mid-October
|
50k
|
St. Louis Renaissance Faire
|
Sarasota Medieval Fair
|
Florida
|
Woods of Mallaranny, Myakka City; permanent
|
Medieval Period, 9th - 15th Century
|
2005
|
4 stages, Human Combat Chess Match, Jousting, 3 pubs (2 permanent), Children's Realm
|
November
|
25k (2011)[26]
|
Sarasota MedFair
|
Scarborough Renaissance Festival
|
Texas
|
Waxahachie; permanent
|
1521 Town of Scarborough, under King Henry VIII
|
1981
|
35 acres
|
(04a) early April–Memorial Day (7 weekends)
|
200k (2010)[27]
|
Scarborough Fair
|
Sherwood Forest Faire
|
Texas
|
McDade; permanent
|
1189–1199, Sherwood Forest; under the reign of Richard the Lion-Hearted; some fantasy elements;
|
2010
|
25 acres, camping and clan camping
|
(02b) early March–late April (8 weekends)
|
137k (2022)
|
100 permanent buildings including a complete castle Sherwood Forest Faire
|
Shrewsbury Renaissance Faire
|
Oregon
|
Kings Valley;
|
1558-1603; elements of Shakespeare and Elizabeth I
|
1996
|
5 stages; parking; no pets
|
(09b) mid-September (one weekend)
|
unk
|
Shrewsbury Renaissance Faire
|
Siouxland Renaissance Festival
|
South Dakota
|
W.H. Lyon Fairgrounds, Sioux Falls
|
1575 Town of Shrewsbury, England, the 17th year of Queen Elizabeth's reign
|
2001
|
6 stages, parking, camping
|
(06a) First Weekend of June
|
-5k
|
Siouxland Festival
|
Escondido Renaissance Faire
|
California
|
Felicita County Park, Escondido, California;
|
The Shire of Escondido; Her Majesty, Queen "Elizabeth Gloriana"
|
2000
|
stages; 53 acres
|
(04d) April–May (Spring Faire; 2 weekends) (10d) October–November (Fall Faire; 2 weekends)
|
5k
|
Old Tyme Productions
|
Sterling Renaissance Festival
|
New York
|
Sterling; permanent
|
The fictional Village of Warwick; 1585 England
|
1976
|
12 stages; 35+ acres; camping acres[28]
|
(07a) July–August (5 weekends)
|
100k (2019)[29]
|
Sterling, NY Festival
|
Tennessee Renaissance Festival
|
Tennessee
|
Arrington-Triune; permanent
|
16th-century town of "Covington Glen;" features a full-sized replica "border castle", known as "Castell Gwynn"
|
1985
|
stages; 68 acres
|
(05a) May (4 weekends)
|
45k (2008)
|
Tennessee RenFest
|
Texas Renaissance Festival
|
Texas
|
Todd Mission; permanent
|
The King's "New Market Village;" 3rd–16th century; Roman, Scots, Celts, pirates, fantasy
|
1974
|
25 stages; 55 fair acres; 200+ camping acres; parking;
|
(10a) October–Thanksgiving weekend (9 weekends)
|
679k (2016)[30]
|
Largest US RenFaire by attendance TRF
|
Three Barons Renaissance Faire
|
Alaska
|
3400 East Tudor Rd, Anchorage; recurring event
|
The three barons' Italian, Arabic, and English camps at Hillshire Village; pirates, fantasy
|
1992
|
stages; free parking shuttle
|
(06a) first two weekends in June
|
unk
|
3 Barons
|
Utah Renaissance Festival and Fantasy Faire
|
Utah
|
Marriott-Slaterville; semi-permanent
|
1500–1650 in medieval Village of Hawkhurst; some fantasy elements
|
2006
|
52 acres
|
(05a) May (4 weekends)
|
25k (2011)[31]
|
Utah RenFest
|
Valhalla Renaissance Faire
|
California
|
Camp Richardson, South Lake Tahoe; semi-permanent
|
1580 Elizabethan England; nobility, pirates, barbarians
|
1993
|
3 stages; 7 acres
|
(05d) Memorial day weekend–mid-June (4 weekends)
|
49k (2010)[32]
|
ValhallaFaire
|
Vermont Renaissance Faire
|
Vermont
|
Champlain Valley Expo, Essex; semi-permanent
|
Unknown location; Renaissance, Fantasy, Medieval
|
2016
|
6 stages, demo field, joust field, multiple encampments
|
(06d) end of June (1 weekend)
|
10k [33]
|
Vermont Gatherings
|
Virginia Renaissance Faire
|
Virginia
|
Spotsylvania; semi-permanent
|
Elizabethan village of "Stafford" in the 1580s; pirates, Celts; inventors
|
2002
|
stages; No pets;
|
(05c) mid-May–mid-June (4 weekends)
|
20k (2014)
|
Virginia Renaissance Faire
|
Washington Midsummer Renaissance Faire
|
Washington
|
Sky Meadows Farm, Snohomish; recurring
|
The 1577 village of "Merriwick", Elizabethan England; pirates, carnival, fantasy elements
|
2010
|
6 stages; 8 faire acres; camping; parking; no pets;[34]
|
(07d) Mid-July–late-August (5 weekends)
|
45k (2015)
|
Midsummer Faire
|
West Virginia Renaissance Festival
|
West Virginia
|
Hollow Hills Farm, Lewisburg; permanent site
|
The Village of Essex; broadly renaissance with fantasy elements
|
2018
|
6 stages; 15 acres;
|
(06a) Four weekends in June
|
unk
|
West Virginia Renaissance Festival
|
Ye Merrie Greenwood Renaissance Faire
|
Washington
|
Columbia Park, Kennewick
|
Elizabethan/Shakespearean Era, circa 1585
|
1989
|
8 stages
|
(09b) mid-September
|
5k (2016)[35]
|
Ye Merrie Greenwood Players
|