Southwestern New Mexico State Fair
The Southwestern New Mexico State Fair is the great autumn gathering of Luna County's farming and ranching communities, with livestock competitions, rodeo, carnival rides, and the desert-border traditions of the Deming area on full display.
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"Since 1971, this Labor Day weekend harvest celebration in the self-styled Chile Capital of the World draws 30,000 visitors for roaster-side buying, a hometown parade, cooking contests, and live music among the pecan orchards of the Hatch Valley."
Hatch Chile Festival
"Named for Artesia's twin identities as a farming and oilfield town, this September music and culture festival celebrates southeastern New Mexico's red-dirt country heritage with live music, local food, and community spirit."
Red Dirt Black Gold Festival
"Set against the dramatic red-rock mesas that inspired Georgia O'Keeffe, the Ghost Ranch Music Festival brings Americana and roots acts to the remote high-desert landscape of Abiquiu for a three-day outdoor gathering unlike any other in the Southwest."
Ghost Ranch Music Festival
"A single Saturday each September, this tiny ghost-town hamlet of 166 souls on US-60 in Catron County stages a community pie bake-off and festival that draws visitors from across the Southwest to celebrate the crop and character that gave Pie Town its name."
Pie Town's Annual Pie Festival
"The annual Chimayo Fiesta celebrates the living Hispanic and Tewa heritage of this famous weaving village and pilgrimage site in the Rio Grande valley, with traditional music, food, and community festivity on the historic plaza."
Chimayo Fiesta
"Artesia's Eddy County Fair is the annual agricultural showcase of the Pecos Valley oilfield and dairy belt, drawing ranchers, 4-H youth, and families for livestock judging and small-town fair traditions."
Eddy County Fair
"A full week of traditional county fair life in Coldwater -- livestock judging, 4-H competitions, carnival rides, and grandstand events -- anchoring the agricultural calendar of the small-farm communities of Branch County in southern Michigan."
Branch County Fair
"A beloved three-day community fair in its 49th year, held in the Adirondack foothills hamlet of Mayfield, serving as a true local gathering for Fulton County's rural communities."
Mayfield Bannertown Fair
"The westernmost UP county fair serves the iron-mining and logging heritage communities of Gogebic County and the Wisconsin border, gathering agricultural exhibits, livestock, and local traditions in Ironwood each August."
Gogebic County Fair
"Held on the shores of Lake Chatuge every August, this long-running Appalachian fair celebrates the mountain heritage of Towns County with craft demonstrations, old-time music, and a recreated pioneer village."
Georgia Mountain Fair
"The Alpena County Fair on Thunder Bay serves the agricultural and fishing communities of the northeast Lower Peninsula with a traditional week of livestock, 4-H exhibits, and fairground entertainment in a county known for its pristine Great Lakes waters."
Alpena County Fair
"The great rural gathering of the Upper Peninsula, held annually in Escanaba since the early 20th century, brings together agricultural exhibits, grandstand entertainment, carnival rides, and fair foods to serve the farming and forestry communities spread across Michigan's vast northern wilderness."
Upper Peninsula State Fair