Columbia County Fair Grounds — Local services in Town of Ghent

I love their fair. It’s one of the best!

But they need to figure out a way to be more rv friendly, at least to small RVs and small trailers. I travel with a small travel trailer in fall and the Columbia county fair is one of the wonderful places I’d love to visit. My truck and trailer fit easily into 2 parking spaces. I have a couple health challenges where having the little trailer to rest makes visiting fairs much more accessible and manageable for me. Last fall I just asked to stay overnight on night. Their field parking lot is always empty for night. And many campers are always parked their. I’m willing to pay a reasonable amount for just one night. I offered to arrive early so they could park me any where they wanted. But I was told only way I could stay is if I bought a campsite for the entire fair, which is very expensive for one night. That was ridiculous, for one night. This year I’m coming close enough to arrive in morning and leave at night. So no overnight stay. I emailed just asking if I arrive early could I simply park in 2 lined up spaces as far as they wanted away from their gate. I sent a picture of my truck and camper and the total length of 35 feet. But they emailed back with a very short absolutely not. It’s ridiculous. I have a couple health challenges so the little camper allows me to rest during my visit. I tried to explain this. And I would be moving on to my next destination when gates closed. But they said absolutely not. Heat every year I see dozens of huge rigs parked in the lot. I’m told they are all help and show people. But there is plenty of room. And still they say no.

They need to figure out a way to be more friendly to small rvers. Taking my money elsewhere this year. Other than this it’s a...

Great place but keep an eye out they do hire whoever the only bad experience I had there was one of the vendors tried to fight me for standing in the wrong spot and then the sheriff said I would be kicked out if I didn't apologize for being in the wrong spot which I did because I wasn't trying to get kicked out but also at the same time got harassed by the sheriff's for drinking there when I had a DD and I was on my second beer but other than that replace tractor pulls demolition derby concert at the end can't beat it just wish law enforcement would ease up a little bit me a little bit uncomfortable about how enforcing they were but it wasn't like they were spread out they were standing in groups of 5 to 10 but who am I to say anything I don't know what their policies are for that...

The Columbia County Fair was overpriced, even more than in past years. My family favorite got-it game jumped 50% from 3 plays for $2 to a straight up dollar per game. For a family of four to play now being $4 a game and needing to win multiple times for a half way decent prize, it just wasn't really worth bothering with. Many of the vendors that have been there in previous years did not show also. The only fun inexpensive things left to do was to watch the pig races and visit the animals and there weren't as many animals it seemed like this year either. Alot of the food prices jumped again this year too. I was happy to only go the one...