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Antelope Valley Fair

Lancaster, CA · Festival

When

September 24 – October 4, 2026

Where

Antelope Valley Fairgrounds, 2551 W Ave H · Lancaster · CA

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule

The Antelope Valley Fair runs across two weekends each fall at the AV Fairgrounds in Lancaster, with a rodeo, carnival and livestock shows drawing visitors from across the high desert. It has been a fixture of the Antelope Valley calendar for decades.

The history within reach

• Antelope Valley Fairsame spot

  The Antelope Valley Fair runs across two weekends each fall at the AV Fairgrounds in Lancaster, with a rodeo, carnival and livestock shows drawing visitors from across the high desert.

• The Kill Bill chapel23 mi

  A small desert church northeast of Lancaster that stood in for the Two Pines Wedding Chapel of El Paso, where the Bride's wedding rehearsal is shot up in Kill Bill Vol.

• National Lampoon's Vacation31 mi

  Walley World, the theme park the Griswolds drive across the country to reach only to find it closed, is this real park north of Los Angeles.

• Los Angeles Aqueduct opens32 mi

  William Mulholland's 233-mile aqueduct drained the Owens Valley to grow Los Angeles.

• Ritchie Valens from Pacoima34 mi

  A seventeen-year-old from a Valley barrio turned a Mexican wedding song into a rock and roll hit, singing La Bamba in Spanish he barely spoke.