2025 Fair Reaches for the Stars—and Beyond 2025 Fair breaks all-time attendance record, sold-out shows and new state records Palmer, Alaska – The 2025 Alaska State Fair didn’t just reach for the stars—it shot past them, continuing a streak of record-breaking attendance, sold-out shows and new state records, and ranking among the nation’s best state fairs in USA TODAY’s 10 Best Readers’...
Palmer, Alaska – The Alaska State Fair is excited to announce the construction of a brand-new multipurpose event center near the Purple Gate entrance. Designed with year-round community use in mind, the new facility will feature flexible indoor space to host a wide variety of events, along with restrooms that are accessible from both inside and outside the building. The event center...
The annual Alaska State Fair is going smoke-free in 2016! The Fair’s new smoke-free policy was adopted earlier this year, and will take effect at the 2016 event, to be held August 25 – September 5. “It’s not about the right to smoke but about the right to not have to breathe second-hand smoke. Smoking is an active choice. Breathing second-hand smoke is not,” said Jerome Hertel, Fair general manager. Hertel added that the policy will...
The Alaska State Fair, Inc. will hold its 2016 annual membership meeting on Thursday, February 11. The meeting will take place at 7 p.m. in Raven Hall on the fairgrounds. Interested members of the public are invited to attend, but only Fair lifetime and 2015 annual members are eligible to vote at the meeting. The primary order of business is the election of two members to the Fair’s board of directors. Each seat will have a three-year...
