Thu 8/28-Mon 9/1

Coming toward the end of the annual county fair season is the Great Geauga County Fair — that’s its official name — taking place at the Burton fairgrounds.

This festival is Ohio’s oldest county fair, now three years into its third century, and it’s a huge event. Its five days are packed with typical county fair events — barns filled with animals, produce and crafts, rides, tons of unhealthy food you should only eat once a year at the county fair and entertainment of all types including magic and animal shows, cooking ad woodcarving demonstrations, youth fishing, frog jumping and rooster crowing contests, music from country (including a concert by Ohio-bred country artist Julia Neville)  to rock to performances daily by the Great Geauga County Fair Band, youth fishing, an apple pie auction, and much much much much more. Even if you came every day, you couldn’t take it all in.

And then there’s the special grandstand events, including harness racing on Friday, a truck and tractor pull on Sunday and the High Steel Rodeo on Monday, and of COURSE a demolition derby — no, wait — TWO demolition derbies on Thursday and Saturday. There’s probably a law that you can’t have a county fair without one.

For more information, a full schedule and tickets go to geaugafair.com.