This web page was created programmatically, to learn the article in its unique location you possibly can go to the hyperlink bellow: https://www.pressherald.com/2026/06/22/11-maine-fairs-to-hit-for-summer-fun/and if you wish to take away this text from our web site please contact us [ad_1] 21265# 20240814 01fair_ SKOWHEGAN, MAINE AUGUST 12, 2024 The Hurricane and Ferris wheel spin above fair goers on the midway of the Skowhegan State Fair in Skowhegan, Maine on Wednesday night August 14, 2024.(Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel)
" data-image-caption="The Hurricane and Ferris wheel spin at the Skowegan State Fair in 2024.(Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel)
" data-large-file="https://www.pressherald.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2026/06/20240814-03fairatnight_.jpg?w=780"/> The Hurricane and Ferris wheel spin on the Skowegan State Fair in 2024.(Rich Abrahamson/Morning Sentinel) Can’t look ahead to truthful season to start out? You don’t need to. It already has. Even although a few of Maine’s best-known and largest festivals are within the fall, together with the Common Ground Country Fair and Fryeburg Fair, there are festivals occurring throughout the state in the summertime, too. Officially referred to as agricultural festivals, they're small-town, old-timey celebrations that includes plenty of animals, farming ability demos, meals and leisure. Here’s a take a look at 11 Maine festivals occurring everywhere in the state, from now by means of August. Check again within the fall as a result of there are another 10 fairs scheduled for September and October. 79 Academy Road, Monmouth. monmouthfair.com The truthful on this small Central Maine city began within the early 1900s. Its mission is to coach folks about farm life whereas entertaining them, too. There are conventional truthful occasions like pig scrambles, the place children attempt seize a squealing, sprinting piglet, in addition to horse pulling and tractor pulling, a pie-eating contest, hay bale-tossing and frying pan-tossing competitions. There are additionally carnival rides and dwell leisure at evening. MONMOUTH ME – JUNE 25: Issac Glover, of Rumford, guides a Belgian horse named Spanky around the single horse log twitch course in the pulling ring on the first day of the annual Monmouth Fair Wednesday June 25, 2025 at Monmouth Fairgrounds in Monmouth. Competitors in the event guided their horse dragging through an obstacle course marked off by cones. It was a timed event and they lost points for touching or tipping over cones.
Glover said got into pulling because his parents and grandparents are all involved in pulling contests and that the family goes to several fairs to compete over the summer and fall. (Joe Phelan/Staff Photographer)
" data-image-caption="Issac Glover of Rumford guides a horse at the Monmouth Fair in 2025. (Joe Phelan/Staff Photographer)
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" data-image-caption="Bill Winslow of Harrison waits for questions from fairgoers at the Waterford World’s Fair in 2024 as part of an event called “Ask Our Farmer.” (Daryn Slover/Staff Photographer)
" data-large-file="https://www.pressherald.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2026/06/39075401_SJ.NORworldsFair2SAP.072024.jpg?w=780" height="682" width="1024" src="https://www.pressherald.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2026/06/39075401_SJ.NORworldsFair2SAP.072024.jpg?w=1024" alt="" class="wp-image-7668929" srcset="https://www.pressherald.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2026/06/39075401_SJ.NORworldsFair2SAP.072024.jpg 2667w, https://www.pressherald.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2026/06/39075401_SJ.NORworldsFair2SAP.072024.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https://www.pressherald.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2026/06/39075401_SJ.NORworldsFair2SAP.072024.jpg?resize=768,511 768w, https://www.pressherald.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2026/06/39075401_SJ.NORworldsFair2SAP.072024.jpg?resize=1024,682 1024w, https://www.pressherald.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2026/06/39075401_SJ.NORworldsFair2SAP.072024.jpg?resize=1536,1022 1536w, https://www.pressherald.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2026/06/39075401_SJ.NORworldsFair2SAP.072024.jpg?resize=2048,1363 2048w, https://www.pressherald.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2026/06/39075401_SJ.NORworldsFair2SAP.072024.jpg?resize=1200,799 1200w, https://www.pressherald.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2026/06/39075401_SJ.NORworldsFair2SAP.072024.jpg?resize=2000,1331 2000w, https://www.pressherald.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2026/06/39075401_SJ.NORworldsFair2SAP.072024.jpg?resize=780,519 780w, https://www.pressherald.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2026/06/39075401_SJ.NORworldsFair2SAP.072024.jpg?resize=400,266 400w" sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px"/>Bill Winslow of Harrison waits for questions from fairgoers on the Waterford World’s Fair in 2024 as a part of an occasion referred to as “Ask Our Farmer.” (Daryn Slover/Staff Photographer) Purchase this picture 515 Main St., Bangor. bangorstatefair.com Maine is such an incredible state for festivals, it really has two state festivals, with each Bangor and Skowhegan claiming the title. There’s a little bit little bit of all the things right here, together with harness racing (horses pulling drivers in sulkies), wrestling, a demolition derby, truck pulls, an ice cream-eating contest, baking contests and an enormous number of cattle and demos. The truthful makes use of a picture of legendary lumberjack Paul Bunyan as a part of its emblem, so whereas on the town, take a look at the 31-foot-tall statue of him on Main Street. 175 Fairgrounds Lane, Union. unionfair.org Got blueberries? The Union Fair can also be residence to the annual Maine Wild Blueberry Festival. The tidy little city and its blueberry-covered hills are only a 20-minute drive from Camden. There will likely be numerous sorts of blueberry pie and blueberry baked items contests. A Blueberry Queen will likely be topped, to signify the wild blueberry trade for the approaching 12 months. UNION, ME – JULY 30 Lena Mehuren (cq), 10, and her cow, Joy, during the 4-H youth dairy show at opening day at the Union Fair Wednesday July 30, 2025. The Union Fair will run until Sunday, August 3 at 175 Fairground Lane in Union. (Staff photo by Anna Chadwick/Staff Photographer)
" data-image-caption="Lena Mehuren, 10, and her cow, Joy, during the 4-H youth dairy show at the Union Fair in 2025. (Anna Chadwick/Staff Photographer)
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" data-image-caption="A harness racer on the track at Skowhegan State Fair in 2024.(Rich Abrahamson/Staff Photographer)
" data-large-file="https://www.pressherald.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2026/06/20240814-04fairatnight_.jpg?w=780" height="725" width="1024" src="https://www.pressherald.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2026/06/20240814-04fairatnight_.jpg?w=1024" alt="" class="wp-image-7668931" srcset="https://www.pressherald.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2026/06/20240814-04fairatnight_.jpg 3300w, https://www.pressherald.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2026/06/20240814-04fairatnight_.jpg?resize=300,213 300w, https://www.pressherald.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2026/06/20240814-04fairatnight_.jpg?resize=768,544 768w, https://www.pressherald.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2026/06/20240814-04fairatnight_.jpg?resize=1024,725 1024w, https://www.pressherald.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2026/06/20240814-04fairatnight_.jpg?resize=1536,1088 1536w, https://www.pressherald.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2026/06/20240814-04fairatnight_.jpg?resize=2048,1451 2048w, https://www.pressherald.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2026/06/20240814-04fairatnight_.jpg?resize=1200,850 1200w, https://www.pressherald.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2026/06/20240814-04fairatnight_.jpg?resize=2000,1417 2000w, https://www.pressherald.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2026/06/20240814-04fairatnight_.jpg?resize=780,553 780w, https://www.pressherald.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2026/06/20240814-04fairatnight_.jpg?resize=400,283 400w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px"/>A harness racer on the observe at Skowhegan State Fair in 2024.(Rich Abrahamson/Staff Photographer) Purchase this picture 77 Fairview Ave., Dover-Foxcroft. piscataquisvalleyfair.com If you missed the Maine Whoopie Pie Festival, held on June 13 this 12 months, right here’s one more reason to go to Dover-Foxcroft. The schedule for this 12 months’s truthful isn't out but, however final 12 months’s version included an AC/DC cowl band, a pie contest, a halfway, “Animal Land,” milking demos, steer and oxen pulling, skillet throwing, a pig scramble and a cornhole match. This 12 months’s Miss Maple pageant will likely be on Aug. 29. 550 Route 109, Acton. actonfair.net Take a summer time drive to the lake. This small York County city on the New Hampshire border is surrounded by ponds and lakes, and the fairgrounds is simply steps from Mousam Lake. The truthful includes a rabbit barn, dairy barn, a automobile present, worm composting for learners, pig calling, “wee wee” pig racing, milking demos, music and extra. You may expertise “the sweet smell of success” by enjoying cow patty bingo. Yes, it’s simply what it feels like. ACTON, ME – AUGUST 23: Autumn Grenier, 8, left, Adelaide McArthur, center and Emma Robishaw wave to the crowd as they are driven through the grandstand at the Acton Fair during the grand parade on Saturday. On Friday nightm, Grenier was crowned Little Miss Acton Fair, McAthur Junior Miss Acton Fair and Robishaw Miss Acton Fair. (Staff photo by Gregory Rec/Staff Photographer)
" data-image-caption="Autumn Grenier, 8, left, Adelaide McArthur and Emma Robishaw wave to the crowd as they are driven by the grandstand at the Acton Fair in August 2025. Grenier was crowned Little Miss Acton Fair, McArthur Junior Miss Acton Fair and Robishaw Miss Acton Fair. (Gregory Rec/Staff Photographer)
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