Texas Rice Festival — Local services in Winnie

Fairly disappointed this year with the rice festival. As someone who is all for new technologies, the new digitalization of the fair is terrible. In order to interact with any of the rides, carnie games, and even food stands you MUST purchase a wristband that reloads with digital credits.This means that these credits are EXPENSIVE in the long run. It’s like 10 credits for like $13 and a funnel cake is 12 credits…. Not to mention, general entrance is $15! We even ran into an older couple bringing grandkids to enjoy the fair but were 100% confused on how to work the ticket...

There seemed to be quite a few food booths and rides missing, but this was really fun to attend. The parade was cool but there seemed to be quite a few people missing. Rudy's kabobs had really good flavor and the rice balls and gumbo...

A lot of fun to be had out here. Great gates park for kids plenty of campsites for RV and tent campers. There's electric water and sewer. A decent amount of trees. A couple covered pavilion and a few picnic tables for you...