[1] In keeping with its artistic beginnings, KCRF features over 150 shops and vendors, many of which sell original crafts and artwork.

The site itself is artistic, featuring winding tree-lined lanes, painted murals, and banner-strewn, fancifully decorated buildings.

Its artisans demonstrate a variety of textile, wood and metal crafting techniques, even operating a fully functional blacksmith shop.

KCRF offers a free Living History Tour in which patrons can view some of these craftspeople at work as well as hear presentations by costumed characters about Renaissance art, science, medicine, and warfare.

The Kansas City Renaissance Festival, in addition to being sold to new ownership in the late 1990s and the tremendous growth it has encountered, has also faced the extreme possibility of having to shut down and move in the early part of the 21st century.