Raw States
California State Fair
Sacramento, CA · Festival
- When
- September 17 – October 3, 2027
- Where
- Cal Expo · Sacramento · CA
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
A multi-week state fair and food festival at Cal Expo in Sacramento, with livestock competitions, a concert series, and a wine and beer garden built around California agriculture. Starting in 2027 the fair shifts from its traditional midsummer slot to early fall, running September 17 through October 3, a change organizers made to avoid the hottest weeks of the year.
The history within reach
- California State Fairsame spot
A multi-week state fair and food festival at Cal Expo in Sacramento, with livestock competitions, a concert series, and a wine and beer garden built around California agriculture.
The first state fair in the West, held before California was six years old and moved permanently to Sacramento in 1861.
Sacramento's Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church opens its grounds each fall for Greek food, pastries, dancing and church tours.
A Swiss debtor talked the Mexican governor into 48,000 acres and built an adobe fort worked largely by Native labour under conditions close to slavery.
- The Great Flood of 18623.4 mi
Forty-three days of rain turned the Central Valley into an inland sea 300 miles long, drowning perhaps a third of California's cattle and bankrupting the state.