Arena Park — Attraction in Cape Girardeau

Ok so things has changed at the fair. Namely prices and availability of everything. We paid 5 dollars a piece to get in to basically walk through and look at hardly any animals were to be found and the same ole exibit and alot of the food court business wasnt even set up yet. If its not all open and there isnt as much to offer fair goers during certain times make the price of admission 2.50 a person and not Full price because we didnt have options of alot of things offered inside. Even over half of the inside arena building booths were not even open..we decided the entrance fee and a 1.00 bottle of cold water was as far as we were willing to go with our hard earned money. We went to a restaurant that offered food drink AND dessert for over half of what we could have dropped there. I will probably most certainly ever go to back to a fair again. Its sad because ive went all my life and took my...

Only attended SEMO District fair, which this year was disappointing.

We chose to attend early afternoon and the entire fair was absent of patrons, so the typical fair experience one would expect, elbow to elbow people wasn't occurring.

Well, not a total loss, as I took my elderly mother, pushing her in a wheelchair. The marginal joy she was experiencing was enough for me.

For fair food, stay away from the vendors in front of the arena building, as they're prohibitively expensive...

For instance if your with a family of 5, and the only thing you purchase is lemonade, it's going to cost you 30$

How in the heck can families afford these inflated prices? I won't even quote the edible food costs....YIKES...are the cows and pigs made of precious metals are something???

Your best bet is to head on over towards the Animal tents, as the food vendors down that area, are...

There was a man with unsightly calf tattoos throwing trash away in a refuse bin just a few yards from my vehicle. He looked at me at one point, and I could see in his eyes that he knew I knew his torment. There's no mistaking the kind of pain that man's face displayed right then, in that brief moment. A lifetime of bittersweet regrets and wistful remorse could be seen in his black eyes. I couldn't help but wonder what it was that brought him there at the exact same time I arrived to eat my lunch. At first I was annoyed that I wasn't the only person there, but quickly I became grateful that our paths crossed. I will never forget that man or the insight his presence gave me that day: Never come back to Arena Park unless you want to get mugged by a...