Renaissance Pleasure Faire of Southern California

Renaissance Pleasure Faire of Southern California
Renaissance Pleasure Faire of Southern California, April 2011
GenreRenaissance faire
DatesApril - May
Location(s)Santa Fe Dam Recreation Area
Irwindale, California
Inaugurated1962
Attendance250,000 (average)
Stages11
Websitewww.renfair.com/socal/

The Renaissance Pleasure Faire of Southern California (RPFS) is a Renaissance faire that takes place at the Santa Fe Dam Recreation Area in Irwindale, California. Since the first one in the spring of 1963, it has been an annual event. Owned by Renaissance Entertainment Productions (REP), it is a commercial reenactment of a 1580s market faire at Port Deptford, a waterfront town in Elizabethan era England. The Faire is generally open from the first weekend of April through the weekend before Memorial Day.