Renaissance faires in Washington

Washington's scene is unusual in having a permanent, purpose-built medieval site at its heart: Camlann Medieval Village in Carnation, a living history museum recreating daily life in a rural English village in 1376, run by the Camlann Medieval Association, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit educational corporation founded in 1981. Camlann's grounds include the Bors Hede, a restaurant designed as a fourteenth-century village inne that was built and opened in 1993 and operates on weekends year-round, which lets the village carry its calendar of feasts and festivals through autumn and winter rather than ending with the summer faire season. West of the Cascades, the Washington Midsummer Renaissance Faire was founded in the 1990s, became a nonprofit, the Washington Renaissance Arts & Education Society, in 2008, and has moved over the years from Gig Harbor to a long run in Bonney Lake and then to Monroe in 2023; reporting by InvestigateWest describes it growing from three weekends to five and drawing approximately 10,000 visitors daily. In eastern Washington, the Spokane Renaissance Faire is presented by the Spokane Entertainers Guild, a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization. The state has also lost a landmark: Ye Merrie Greenwood Faire in Kennewick, founded in 1986, held at Columbia Park and billed as the longest running real Renaissance Faire in the Northwest, offered continuous entertainment on eight stages but is no longer active.

Sources: Wikipedia — Camlann Medieval Village · Camlann Medieval Village (official site) · InvestigateWest — Washington Midsummer Renaissance Faire · Spokane Renaissance Faire (official site) · The Ren List — Ye Merrie Greenwood Faire