More Fun for the Fair: Coastal Plains Fair returns with prolonged schedule

More Fun for the Fair: Coastal Plains Fair returns with prolonged schedule

Published 5:06 pm Wednesday, November 12, 2025

TIFTON — The Coastal Plains Agricultural Fair has made its method again to Tifton, however is trying to make some huge adjustments in its newest 12 months.

The annual honest kicked off its 89th season Nov. 6 with plans to stretch the enjoyable additional than ever earlier than, together with extra rides, extra points of interest, and most significantly, a drastically prolonged run time.

Rather than the roughly week-long keep on the town seen in earlier years, the native chapter of the American Legion, organizers of the annual occasion, elected to greater than double its run, permitting the area people to return out and benefit from the festivities throughout almost two weeks ranging from final Thursday and into the tip of this weekend.

This 12 months additionally marks the primary time the honest has added distributors promoting greater than meals–as patrons make their method by way of the fairgrounds constructing main as much as the honest itself, they’ll be greeted not solely by the handful of displays and cubicles put collectively by native organizations, however a collection of native distributors promoting toys, equipment, decorations, and extra.

Other points of interest embody a full circus with reside animals courtesy of the Tandazo Thrill Show, face portray and mechanical bull rides, and the chance to take a trip in an actual monster truck.

The fairgrounds have been stuffed to burst with points of interest, that includes rides, video games, and particular occasions positive to excite and entertain residents of Tifton.

Keith Beasley, American Legion Post 21 commander, boasted that this 12 months’s honest sported much more rides than the final, together with classics just like the Sky Diver and the swing trip, dizzying spherical ups and scramblers, and loads of teacup rides, coasters, and even a kid-sized Ferris wheel meant to amuse the youthful patrons of the honest.

Carnival video games dot the fairgrounds, filling the areas between the rides with alternatives to snag prizes for popping balloons, catching toy fish, or beating a rival in a water gun race, whereas meals distributors have clustered close to the doorway to the honest, offering snacks working the gamut of conventional honest meals to the delicacies of fashionable native meals vehicles.

Like in earlier years, organizers can be providing particular packages on sure days of the honest or all through its total run, corresponding to the chance to buy an armband permitting for limitless rides on all points of interest.

Beasley inspired the neighborhood to return out and luxuriate in all the enjoyable that the annual honest needed to supply.

The Coastal Plains Fair is positioned on the American Legion Fairgrounds at 1360 U.S. Highway 82, and can proceed by way of the rest of the week, and can be open 6 to 10 p.m. till Thursday, 6 p.m. to midnight Friday, 2 p.m. to midnight Saturday, and 1 to five p.m. Sunday.

Admission is $5 for kids between 7 and 12, $10 for anybody above 13, and free for kids aged 6 and below. Armbands can be priced otherwise in accordance with the day. For extra data, contact the American Legion at (229)-392-2632