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Champlain Valley Fair
Essex Junction, VT · Festival
- When
- August 27 – September 5, 2027
- Where
- Champlain Valley Exposition · Essex Junction · VT
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
A ten day fair at the Champlain Valley Exposition, Vermont's largest, with agricultural exhibits, a midway, and a concert series drawing nearly 280,000 visitors. It runs in late August into early September each year.
The history within reach
- Champlain Valley Fairsame spot
A ten day fair at the Champlain Valley Exposition, Vermont's largest, with agricultural exhibits, a midway, and a concert series drawing nearly 280,000 visitors.
- The Shelburne Museum10 mi
Electra Havemeyer Webb collected quilts, weathervanes, cigar-store figures and carousel horses when serious collectors thought them junk, then moved 39 whole buildings onto the site, including a covered bridge, a lighthouse and a 220-foot steamboat hauled overland..
- Lake Champlain11 mi
The invasion road between Canada and the Hudson in three wars.
A sandstone gorge up to 150 feet deep that a company fitted with walkways and bridges and began charging admission for, one of the first natural attractions in the country run as a business, and still operating a century and a half later.
The actual family from The Sound of Music, having sung their way out of Austria in 1938, bought a Stowe hill farm in 1942 because it reminded them of home, and turned it into a lodge the second the singing tours slowed.