NJ State Fair – the Sussex Version
Where: Sussex County Fairgrounds 37 Plains Road, Augusta NJ
New Jersey’s State Fair: August 3-12, 2012
The New Jersey State Fair, known for many years as the Sussex County Farm and Horse Show, has already been picked as one of the top one hundred events in North America by the American Bus Association, and a star attraction by the National Geographic Travel magazine. A real country fair, the home pride of generations worked closely with the land is everywhere to be seen: in the good food, good works, and good times that are the true bounty and community of the rural, agricultural heritage of Sussex County. The fair’s roots extend back to 1821, and the annual Sussex County Horse Show took place in ever-expanding form in Branchville from 1936 to 1976, when the fair moved to new grounds on a 150 acre dairy farm on Plains Road in Augusta.
Visitors enjoy the tremendous agricultural exhibits for which the Fair is famous. Animals are everywhere you look – from a bee and honey display to the barns at the livestock exhibitions, in the horticultural exhibits and contests, and in the Horse Show Ring. In addition to the Horse Show all week you can see racing pigs, racing turtles, a llama show, woodchopping contests, arts & crafts shows, a performing arts tent, a queen pageant, and you’ll taste food whose recipes hail from the heart of rural New Jersey or from just about anywhere in the world. All of the various waves of immigrations that have built the state of New Jersey bring good things to these tables.
Cost: Regular Admission Ticket Sales (at the gate) Adult $12 Child $6 [6-12 yrs.] Children under 6 FREE every day Senior $9 [60+ proof of age required] Evenings: after 8:30 p.m. Adult $8 Advance Ticket Sales – Adult $10, Child [6-12 yrs.] $5; in advance only before 8/3;
