Arizona Renaissance Festival

Rank in Arizona: #421of 727 ranked
Overall score: Score 36.5 out of 100medium confidence
Most looked up: Marchby Wikipedia readers
Category: Landmark

The Arizona Renaissance Festival is a Renaissance fair and themed amusement park at Gold Canyon, Arizona, east of the Phoenix metropolitan area in Pinal County. It was first run in 1989 and is held from mid-winter to early spring, a season chosen for the mild weather. The grounds are laid out as a fictional village named Fairhaven, and the programme runs across several stages of live entertainment and includes a meal billed as the Pleasure Feast.

Where it is

Arizona Renaissance Festival is a landmark near Apache Junction, in Pinal County. It is one of the landmarks in this database, and appears in the statewide ranking of Arizona attractions.

How this ranking was reached

No official visitor count is published for Arizona Renaissance Festival, so its score rests on public interest and tourism significance, and is capped below the level a measured attraction can reach. That is why the medium confidence above is not higher. The weighting is explained in full on the methodology page, and every axis is broken out under Facts and sources at the foot of this page.

Note on the data: No official visitor count is published for this attraction.

Mentioned in

Arizona's spring training ballparks produce the sharpest seasonal spike in the database — Readership of Sloan Park runs 3.8 times its annual average in March, the largest seasonal peak measured across 467 Arizona attractions.

Sources

Public interest: Wikimedia pageviews (en.wikipedia, human traffic), 2024
Coordinates and designations: Wikidata(opens in a new tab)
County: U.S. Census geography via FCC Area API, resolved from coordinates
Official site: http://www.royalfaires.com/arizona/(opens in a new tab)

Record last verified 2026-08-12.

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