Do you go to your local fair?

I go to ours; I like the food and photography exhibits. They have a special part that is 4H only. That is where they have fruit and vegetable scu;putrescence that are fun to look at and some animals. Usually bunnies and chickens. We really enjoy the fair.

we have gone to our local county fair but it's not an annual thing for us - Dh goes more often than I have. I honestly have no idea about who can enter items

No. Never have. Not remotely close and have zero desire to go to my county's fair.

I have attended county fairs in my state over the years. The 4-H group usually has its own building for showing items. I believe people not in 4-H can enter in several categories unrelated to the 4-H ones (baking, canning, various craft projects, etc).
I have not ever entered anything myself but enjoy looking at the entries.

The last time I went to the fair I said I was never going back and I haven’t. I hate our local fair. I’d be willing to go to a different one. I grew up in a rural area. I was active in 4-H and really enjoyed exhibiting items and showing cattle at the fair.

Yes I love the fair. I like to see the animals, the exhibits and Booths and of course the fair food. We’ll watch some events too - mostly live music.

When we lived in an area with an agricultural fair we absolutely attended and participated. All the neighbor kids were kept busy getting their entries ready the week leading up to the fair (from drawing pictures, creating crafts, baking, etc.) and everyone always won enough money to make it well worth their while. I also participated in photography, scrapbooking and a few other crafty categories.

It was always fun to wander the exhibit barns and see the creativity, drool over the baking, etc.

My urban county does have a county fair every summer in August, but it's not like the agricultural fair I grew up going to in Pennsylvania. That one had all the animals, tractor pulls, calf roping, all the vegetable/preserves/pie judging, etc., etc. I loved it when I was a kid although probably I wouldn't like it as much now.

But our urban one is very different from that. It's held at a local community center. All the carnival rides and games, and the food, are outside. They also have pony rides for kids, and there is usually some sort of other animal thing...for a few years we had several dairy cows from from a local farm and they exhibit was set up to teach us about dairy farming. Sometimes we've had goats from a goat farm for the same type of teaching exhibit. They also use part of the outside area for rotating demonstrations -- there are always police K-9 units who set up searches for the dog, or demonstrations of the dog catching a bad guy, etc... Always very popular with the kids. And me! I love seeing the dogs in action. -- The fire department always has an area outside also where they have information and do demonstrations on just how fast certain things can catch fire. It was because of one of those demos that I stopped hanging a kitchen towel on the handle of my oven.  

Inside the building are some judged exhibits -- photography, crafts, a few with garden produce. My dd always entered the photography one in her age group. She enjoyed it. The rest of the space is filled with various vendors -- crafts, jewelry, bee keeping (honey, mmmm). Fire and police always have a table, and there's usually a food-sniffing beagle from the local airport...He's always a big hit and they do fun demonstrations where the police officer will give a piece of fruit to several people in the crowd watching, then the dog goes around and finds them all very quickly. lol. 

Anyway, it's pretty fun. I hate the rides area but of course when my kids were little we spent a lot of time there. If it wasn't a five-minute walk from my house I probably wouldn't even go now though. 

Actually, the best time to walk through there is in the morning before it opens. I loved walking my dog there and seeing all the trailers where the carnival employees live while they're traveling. I always get the urge to re-read "Water For Elephants". lol

This is what my county fair is, but they have carnival rides too (which I detest). I haven;t been to our fair for a while, maybe when DD was volunteering there for Girl Scouts. But my mom enters some of her baked goods and canned goods in her county fair, one county over, and my co-GS leader would often enter a cake. Lots of the things that we entered were from 4-H or from the schools.

Our fair is usually the 3rd weekend of Sept. I think the state fair is in August, but that is (supposedly) not in a good area, so we never go. 

I was a teenager the last time I went. This got me curious as I haven't seen signs for a fair in a few years. I googled and it doesn't look like we have a county fair anymore. Surely there is some process for people to submit entries that would go onto the state fair. I don't know.

Local county 4-H fair? No, not any more. We used to take our DD when she was young and then our grandson. It was mostly to look at the animals and get something to eat. It was an inexpensive, close by thing to do.

Our area has several festivals we do occasionally go to, but not every year. These festivals have arts, crafts and food. They start in May and go through September. I like the Apple festivals the best, but we only go every few years. The Johnny Appleseed festival is very crowded and it’s always too hot. Plus it’s always the same vendors over and over. No need to go more than once every four years.

We always go to the topsfield fair. I love all the exhibits. And my yearly fried dough. We usually ride our bikes there. It’s right on the rail trail. This fair started in 1820.

I have been but haven't gone in a long time.  It was fun to take the kids when they were little.  I really don't have much interest now.  It's usually so hot and I hate being hot.  

My county has one each year. I have zero interest in going. It draws almost a million in attendance and runs for 12 days. It's a big deal for those that like that sort of thing.