The Minnesota Queue. The question: Will 2023 meet or surpass the 2.1 million record hat has made the fair the nation’s largest. Admission: Adults, $18; seniors and kids, $16.
Only Texas does a bigger state fair than Minnesota
FALCON HEIGHTS, Minn. — The Great Minnesota Get-Together, otherwise known as the State Fair, opened with strong attendance despite the heat wave. On opening day 106,000 people passed through the gates. That was down from the 120,000 a year earlier and also behind daily record of 133,000 in 2019. Thigs picked up Friday with a recirdn164,000 people for the second day — , from the 153,00 last year. Total attendance for the whole run was 2.1 million in 2019, just before CoVid. Perhaps the most interesting statistic came from the Miracle of Birth Center. As of Sunday these were the recorded new-arrivals:
> Chicks, 40.
> Piglets, 35.
>Lambs, 7.
> Calves, 5.
Earlier: Fair food as an attraction