Sumter Fair Grounds — Local services in Sumter

The rides aren't safe. The ride called tilt or something like that was broken. The safety bar did not lock into place. These people started the ride anyway. I'm holding my daughter and the safety bar down for dear life. My daughter thinks she having fun but in actuality I'm holding on tight so we wouldn't fly out the ride. When I told the workers about the issue they didn't care, fan me off like whatever. They continued to let adults and children ride this unsafe ride. I guess when someone gets hurts or a parent loses their child then I guess that's when the workers or whoever is sponsoring this mess will care. Well I'm definitely not allowing my children to ride anymore rides and I definitely will not recommend anyone allow their loves ones to ride these rides either. I will be taking my...

They had a garden tractor pull going on. First year. Also a small demolition derby. Regular garden tractor didn't do much, but the modified ones did. One of them pulled that sled right out of the arena, no sled operator as they kick up one hell of a lot of dust. There were some food venders. Not a good turnout, so don't know if they will have one next year. Was some excitement, one of the demolition drivers got hurt and the had to land a helicopter on the field to extract the wounded. It's quite hot and muggy there, so not real comfortable to do this. Maybe why the...

Only complaint this year, the band's inside were way to loud. If you wanted to walk around and talk to the vendors, forget it. It was overwhelming, the space was just to small for vendors and a band, they should have been outside. Enjoyed the food, parking was affordable. It was almost empty Friday, and Saturday evening. We had fun, it was like having the place to ourselves. Kangaroos were cool, petting zoo and...