A company tied to the Oregon Renaissance Faire has bought the Oak Knoll Golf Course property outside Independence, opening a new round of questions about whether one of the Mid-Valley’s larger seasonal events could eventually gain a foothold in Polk County.
Public property records available online list 6335 Highway 22 as sold April 1 to Wandering In Time Holdings LLC. The Oregon Renaissance Faire’s official site says the event is brought to the public by Wandering In Time Productions, the same event brand behind the fair and other themed festivals in the Pacific Northwest. The Oak Knoll site was also marketed earlier this year as a roughly 58-acre property with Public Amusement zoning and features that brokers said could support uses such as a fairground, music venue, RV park or other destination-style business.
The more important point, though, is what has not been confirmed. The Oregon Renaissance Faire has not publicly announced a move to Polk County. Its official 2026 site still lists the event at the Clackamas County Fairgrounds in Canby for all four weekends in June, and Canby’s tourism page is promoting that same schedule and location. So the solid story right now is not that the fair is relocating. It is that a company connected to the fair now appears to control a Polk County property that fits the event business unusually well…