I Took My Family to the Circus Yesterday

- August 23, 2025

It's been a couple years since we went to Circus World in Baraboo, WI so I decided to put it on the calendar and take the family before school starts up.

I was a little worried it wouldn't be as entertaining without the elephants (they retired after the last show we saw) but it was still a fun event with the Big Top Show featuring everything from jugglers to trapeze artists (the latter provided a warmup show outside about an hour before). We all had favorites and left with smiles on our faces.

The multi-building museum was a nice way to kill time before the shows, full of educational exhibits and fun-looking wagons and train cars. Our daughters, one a teenager and one who is now 21, went on the $1 carousel twice (easily the oldest ones on it).

It was a bit pricey at $23 each (the teenager category is the same price as adult), $92 total. I do think we got our money's worth though. My only real complaint was the concession stand was a bit more expensive than I would have preferred to see after spending that kind of money to just get in the door (it cost us nearly $50 for a lunch that consisted of hotdogs and pretzels).

Overall, I do think we'll be going back next year still and do recommend it as a family destination.

I didn't take as many photos as the last time we went but still took a few. Here are some of them.