This event has already taken place
It ran on October 4, 2026. The details below are kept for reference.
Coming up in Hollister, CA
NorCal Renaissance Faire
Kids 12 and under get in free every single weekend, which makes this one of the best-value family days on the whole fall calendar. And the deadline worth knowing: opening weekend has adult tickets at $30 online instead of $42 — the only weekend priced that way. It's less a show you sit and watch than a village you walk into. Kids can follow the Rogue's Honor Games quest, watch the jousting and the falconry, and wander a marketplace of artisans forging, glassblowing, and haggling in character. Costumes are enthusiastically encouraged and nobody will look at you sideways. 📅 Weekends, September 19 – October 25, 2026 🕐 Saturdays & Sundays 10:00 AM–6:00 PM Six weekends, six themes: Opening Weekend (Sept 19–20), Pirate Invasion (Sept 26–27), Cottagecore (Oct 3–4) and More Cottagecore (Oct 10–11) for the fairy-wings crowd, Oktoberfest (Oct 17–18), and Halloween Fantasy (Oct 24–25) with costume contests and trick-or-treating through the village.