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The 27th Annual Arizona Renaissance Festival

Weekends through March 29th

February 27, 2015
Take a trip Back in Time to the wildly popular and entertaining Arizona Renaissance Festival. The annual faire begins at 10 am every Saturday, Sunday, and on Presidents’ Day Monday, from February 7th thru March 29th. 

The Festival transports visitors to an European style country fair filled with an agreeable rabble of knights, rogues, royalty and craftsmen, all roaming throughout a 30-acre village filled with delectable sights and sounds tantalizing the senses. Explore 200 charming craft shops, 13 stages of non-stop entertainment, an arena for full-contact armored jousting, a living fountain, kitchens, pubs, and people powered games and rides. 

Kids love this place! Dozens of activities bring out their smiles. A Festival favorite with children is Mother (and Father) Goose brought to life, with costumed ducks and geese, Maggie, Mimi and Matilda. Kids will cheer for their favorite knight at the 5,000 seat jousting arena or try their hand at archery. Children delight in the return of a falcon, the King of sports, at the Falconer’s Heath, and marvel at the acrobatic antics of Clan Tynker.


Children will also love riding the people-powered rides and interactive games. Da Vinci’s Steam ship, the Swan Swing, Christopher Columbus’ “Voyage to the New World”, the Slider Joust, as well as, the Piccolo Pony, a rocking horse bigger than an elephant, are some of the rides they will enjoy.  Interactive games include a dragon climbing tower, the castle siege, Jacobs’ Ladder, a maze and an archery range. Those bolder of heart may feed the dragon or play King of the log. 

Don’t miss this time travel experience for the whole family! See thee at the Faire. Huzzah!

What: The 27th Annual Arizona Renaissance Festival 

Where: East of Apache Junction on US Highway 60, near the Superstition Mountains. 

When: Saturdays & Sundays from February 7-March 29, 2015, plus Presidents’ Day 
Monday, February 16. The Festival runs from 10a.m. until 6:00 p.m., rain or shine. 

Tickets: Advanced discount tickets available for purchase and print at home on-line 
www.RenFestInfo.com or at Fry’s are $20 for adults and $10 for kids ages 5 through 12, children under 5 are always FREE. Tickets purchased at the Festival Box Office are $2 more. Discounts tickets for seniors (60 and older) are $19, only available at the Festival Box Office. 

Information: www.RenFestInfo.com