Description

This 52nd annual family event features midway rides, live music, DockDogs aquatics show, racing pigs, motorsports, animal barns, livestock events, The Flying Cortes Trapeze Spectacular, Axe Women Loggers, Pork Chop Revue, Family Edutainment Area, contests, arts and crafts, vendors, a Beer & Wine Garden, and fair food.

Kid-friendly highlights include the Garden Tractor Pull (5 pm Thursday); Demolition Derby & Double Figure 8 (7:30 pm Friday); Working Steer Pulls (10 am Saturday); Kid's Pedal Pull (11:30 am Saturday); Kid's Watermelon Eating Contest (3 pm Saturday); Diaper Dash (11 am Sunday); and the Tri-State Truck & Tractor Pull (2 pm Sunday).

On Thursday, fair admission parking (regularly $5), food bites and rides are $2 each (10-ride minimum).

Admission is $15 Friday - Sunday; $13 online before Sept. 7; $30 for a season pass; free for kids 12 and younger and active military; and free for ages 65+ on Friday until 4 pm.

Unlimited ride wristbands (for riders 36" & taller) are $30 Friday, $35 Saturday and Sunday, and $23 in advance. See the website for ride ticket prices and midway hours.

Fair hours are 4-10:30 pm Thursday, noon to midnight Friday, 10 am to midnight Saturday, and 10 am to 7:30 pm Sunday.