What is Junk in the Trunk Vintage Market?
Junk in the Trunk Vintage Market is a three-day vintage and handmade market that fills the exhibit halls at WestWorld of Scottsdale twice a year, in spring and fall, with more than 160 dealers of old furniture, architectural salvage, vintage denim, jewelry, signs and small-batch goods spread across 120,000 square feet. It began in 2011 as a sale in a Phoenix backyard, and its organizers have called it the largest vintage market in the Southwest for most of the fifteen years since.
The next full market is April 16–18, 2027, Friday through Sunday, with tickets on sale March 1. Before that the same team runs The Market: Holiday Edition at WestWorld on December 12–13, 2026, a smaller winter version with the same vendor mix pointed at gifts. The 15th-anniversary fall market ran September 18–20, 2026.
The structure is the thing to understand. Friday Night VIP (4 to 9 p.m., $50 in advance in 2026) is a ticketed opening with a drink, a bag and first pick. Saturday Early Entry (9 to 11 a.m., $25) is the second wave. General admission ($10 online, $12 at the gate) covers Saturday 11 to 4 and Sunday 10 to 3, and kids 12 and under are free. WestWorld charges $10 to park. For a visitor staying in the Princess and Kierland hotels it is a ten-minute drive, and it is the one weekend a year the city’s horse-show grounds smell of furniture wax instead of hay. See shopping in Scottsdale for the rest of the year.
How to do it
Pick your ticket by your goal. The dealers bring their best pieces for Friday night and the serious buyers, decorators and resellers are in line at 4. By Saturday noon the big furniture has sold or is tagged. If you want one large thing, pay for VIP; it also allows re-entry all weekend, so you can measure, go home and come back. If you want to browse and eat a taco, Sunday general admission is the cheapest ticket and the calmest floor, and the last two hours are when prices soften. Tickets are sold online only at the market’s site, at a discount until the Thursday before; gate tickets cost a couple of dollars more. There are no refunds.
Getting there and parking. WestWorld is at 16601 N Pima Rd, east of the Loop 101 between Bell Road and Frank Lloyd Wright Boulevard. From Old Town, Pima Road north is 20 minutes. Enter from Pima and WestWorld Way rather than the 94th Street gate, which serves the barns and the Equidome. The venue charges $10 to park, cash or card, and the lots closest to the North Hall doors fill by late Saturday morning. The halls are climate-controlled; the walk from the far lots is not shaded.
Bring the right kit. Cash for the small booths (most dealers take cards now, but the ones with the best prices are the ones who do not), a folding wagon, a tape measure and the dimensions of the space you are shopping for. Kids and dogs: children are free, and the halls are stroller-friendly; check the market’s current pet policy before bringing a dog, since WestWorld’s rules vary by event.
Eat there or nearby. Food trucks and a bar set up inside or at the doors, and lines are short before noon. Otherwise the Princess and Kierland restaurants are a few minutes south; the Princess and WestWorld guide has the list.
Discounts. Veterans and active military, anyone wearing official JITT apparel and anyone bringing non-perishable food for the Harvest Compassion Center get $1 off each at the gate, to a maximum of $3.
What to skip. The Saturday 11 a.m. general-admission opening is the crush: Early Entry shoppers are still inside, the wagons jam the aisles and the dealers are restocking. Come at 1 on Saturday or 10 on Sunday instead.
From a backyard to the horse grounds
In 2011 two friends, Lindsey Holt and Coley Arnold, who had met through a young couples’ church group and bonded over estate sales, invited a few dozen vendors they had found on Craigslist and Etsy to sell in a friend’s backyard in Phoenix. By Arnold’s count, later told to Phoenix Magazine, 600 people came. The name was a joke about what the dealers were selling out of, and it stuck. A September 2012 Phoenix New Times piece, which credits a third founder, Monique Wallis, already has the market at WestWorld with more than 70 Arizona vendors and reports a move to the Icehouse in the downtown warehouse district for the next edition; WestWorld is where it settled, and the founders have said it has been the market’s home for most of its life.
The format grew up with it: a juried vendor list drawn from across the country, a Friday-night ticketed preview, early-entry hours, food trucks, live music, and a merch line of its own. The founders opened a brick-and-mortar shop in February 2020, a month before the pandemic cancelled the spring market. In June 2024 they handed the market to Heather and Nash, a couple whose own businesses were a vintage pop-up boutique and a fabrication and painting studio; the market’s own history page is careful to name Holt and Arnold as the people who started it in a backyard. The 15th-anniversary market, September 18–20, 2026, was the biggest version of the formula: more than 160 vendors, 120,000 square feet, three admission tiers from $10 to $60.
Why WestWorld
WestWorld is a city-owned equestrian and event center whose calendar runs from Barrett-Jackson in January to the Arabian Horse Show in February and Arizona Bike Week in early April, and whose 300,000-square-foot North Hall, opened in 2014, exists because the car auction got tired of tents. A vintage market needs exactly what the North Hall offers: climate control, concrete floors that take a forklift, loading doors on every side and acres of parking. It is also why the spring market lands in mid-April, after the motorcycles clear out, and the fall market in September, when the halls are between seasons and the weather outside still argues for an indoor Saturday.
The Scottsdale angle
Scottsdale’s shopping reputation runs to Fashion Square, the Old Town galleries and the Kierland and Quarter chains; what it has never had is a flea market, and this is the closest thing, three days a year, up the road from the resorts. For a visitor it pairs with the April calendar’s last cool weekends, with an afternoon at the Princess pool and with the Old Town antique rows on Main Street and Fifth Avenue, which are the places to see what the same furniture costs once a dealer has polished it. For a new resident furnishing a house, it is the cheapest way to see two hundred people’s taste in one building. Buy the Sunday ticket, bring the wagon, and leave the truck decision until you have measured.