World's Largest Permanent Circus

The free circus acts at Circus Circus have run since the property opened in October 1968, and Guinness crowned it the world's largest permanent circus in 1974 - a billing the resort has used ever since. Aerial trapeze artists, clowns and feats-of-skill performers work the ring at the center of the Carnival Midway, upstairs on the mezzanine above the casino floor, with carnival and arcade games surrounding the stage. There's no ticket and no reservation; walk up and watch.

The schedule is the thing to check now. Performances run Friday through Monday only, 12:30 PM to 9:30 PM Friday and Saturday and 12:30 PM to 8:30 PM Sunday and Monday, as the resort listed them on September 3, 2026. Acts go up through the day, roughly hourly, and the ring is dark Tuesday through Thursday. Each act is a single short routine and the lineup rotates, so you can't pick what you'll catch. Standing room at the rail fills fast, the surrounding games are engineered to catch kids on the way out, and the property itself is a dated budget resort at the far north end of the Strip. Come for a free act on the way to the Adventuredome, not as a pilgrimage.