I love going to concerts here. The Upstage Music Fest is so much fun! I give it 5 stars. If that wasn't also held here, I'd be rating it a 1. But there's no separate map point for the fair. This year's county fair was ridiculous. It was only $5 to get in, but an additional $20 to ride. That's a $17 upcharge from last year. At $8 for admission including rides...they tripled the price. I know there are nationwide inflation problems, but that's just pure greed & the outright exploitation of inflation.. And they didn't even have many rides either. They wanted $20 from my 3 year old & there was only about 4 things she could ride. There was no Pirate Ship, Matterhorn or any feature ride for the adventurous ones either. Usually there's at least 1 really cool, big ride. My older kids rode the Octopus (Tornado) several times because there wasn't much else going on. The fair board should be absolutely embarrassed & ashamed of themselves for being so greedy & deceitful. It was posted in the paper that the admission was cheaper, yet they failed to mention it was highway robbery to ride. They were too busy patting themselves on the back to remember to warn parents about what a huge expense the rides were. Those of us with many children couldn't attend as many days as usual because we were uninformed, unprepared & unwilling to pay 3x's as much for half the rides. Technically we physically had the money to go another day.. but it's just not practical or responsible to pay prices that high, especially given the selection of rides. There were probably a lot of people that just absolutely didn't even have that much money. It's the kids who were the most effected by it & they deserve a public apology from the...
Read moreShow barns are in horrible condition. I stayed there in 2016 showing horses during fair weeks and two weeks later developed histoplasmosis,a rare autoimmune fungal disease that I got sleeping in the horse barn between our two mares and their foals. Its now 2023 and Im still extremely sick. Even though it was reported through both county and state agencies by my surgeon they continue to allow people to sleep in the barns during fair. Its disgusting. They need to either stop letting people sleep in there if they are showing or at the very least provide people with information about this disease, where it comes from and what damage it can cause. I also think that a complete clean out with a pressure washer in every single stable from top to bottom should be done after fair every year. It's now 2024. I finally tested negative for histoplasmosis but have a chronic bacterial infection that's invading my whole immune system. My eyes are infected and it's affecting my cognitive thinking, my skin from head to toe. My breathing. Please people do your research before showing at any county fair and no matter what kind of animal you may...
Read moreStopped by the fair for the Cole Goodwin/Zach Top concert. It was a 5 hr drive for me, but well worth it. You do have to pay to get in and parking, we were parked in a field, but it was dry. I saw reviews from other people saying you're parked in the mud, must have just been a dry day. There was a weird moment 30 minutes before the gates were supposed to open when they called out an active thunderstorm watch for 30 minutes and kept the gates closed. This left lines of people out and open to the elements, luckily, not a drop of rain. The shoe was great, but I changed my tickets from a blocked view to "clear" view. As you can tell by the photo there's a huge beam in front of my seat, my wife's was unobstructed. Will return next year if the...
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