{"id":269925,"date":"2026-08-22T02:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T02:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/269925\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T02:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T02:36:07","slug":"pittsburgh-renaissance-festival-opening-postponed-due-to-recent-rains-forecast-of-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/269925\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Renaissance Festival opening postponed due to recent rains, forecast of more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officials with the Pittsburgh Renaissance Festival, a celebration if medieval merriment in South Huntingdon, have postponed its opening weekend due to wet grounds and projected inclement weather.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made on the event\u2019s website and Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>New opening weekend is Aug. 29-30.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe moisture has been too heavy to allow full enjoyment of the native landscape compromising most of the festival site,\u201d the post read in part.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe feel the conditions for our patrons\u2019 enjoyment just aren\u2019t where we would like them to be, and postponing the opening of festival season 2026 is just the right thing to do,\u201d said owner Jim Paradise.<\/p>\n<p>The festival season has been extended into the first weekend of October.<\/p>\n<p>Each weekend has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pittsburghrenfest.com\/themed-weekends\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">different theme<\/a>. The opening theme is Whiskey and Mead.<\/p>\n<p>Children\u2019s Weekend is Sept. 5-7, Pirate Invasion Weekend is Sept. 12-13, Wine Revelry and Romance is planned for Sept. 19-20, Time Travelers Weekend is Sept. 26-27 and Oct 3-4 will be a Final Huzzah \u2013 Celtic Weekend.<\/p>\n<p>More information is available at pittsburghrenfest.com or call 724-872-1670.<\/p>\n<p>Messages left for festival officials Friday night were not immediately returned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officials with the Pittsburgh Renaissance Festival, a celebration if medieval merriment in South Huntingdon, have postponed its opening&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-269925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}