[rwest]

I just checked and my County’s Fair has been cancelled this year again- 4 years in a row, several from COVID and I guess the last two are financial and regulatory problems. It was pretty small, but only 1 mile from my house.

Interesting thing was all the “carnie” type jobs were held by clean looking young adults- I asked them one year and it turns out they were from South Africa and a company got them Visas to travel the US each summer to work the fairs. They seemed happy and were very friendly.

The MN State Fair is huge and only 9 miles from my house and there is a bike friendly way to get there and a monitored bicycle parking area right by the entry.