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Minnesota Renaissance Festival

Shakopee, MN · Festival

When

August 21 – October 3, 2027

Where

12364 Chestnut Blvd · Shakopee · MN

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule

The Minnesota Renaissance Festival transforms festival grounds in Shakopee into a recreated 16th century village each fall, with jousting, artisan craft vendors, and stage performances across sixteen stages. Now in its 55th year, it is one of the largest Renaissance festivals in the country. The 2026 season runs weekends from August 22 through October 4, plus Labor Day and a closing Festival Friday.

The history within reach

• Minnesota Renaissance Festival2.2 mi

  The Minnesota Renaissance Festival transforms festival grounds in Shakopee into a recreated 16th century village each fall, with jousting, artisan craft vendors, and stage performances across sixteen stages.

• Paisley Park6.3 mi

  Prince built a 65,000-square-foot studio complex in a Minneapolis suburb rather than move to Los Angeles, and worked in it almost daily for thirty years.

• Maple Fest (Minnesota Landscape Arboretum)6.7 mi

  Maple Fest at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum marks the spring maple sap harvest with a pancake breakfast and hands on demonstrations of tapping and syrup making.

• Braemar Arena, the rink Edina hockey was built around12 mi

  Edina opened this rink in March 1965 and dedicated it that December, built for a high school hockey program that has since taken fourteen boys' state titles and five girls'.

• Hyland Hills, the ski hill the county rescued12 mi

  Gordy Bowen and Oscar Strand ran this slope as Normandale until a long snow drought and crude grooming equipment broke the business.