Raw States
Panhandle South Plains Fair
Lubbock, TX · Festival
- When
- September 25 – October 3, 2026
- Where
- Panhandle South Plains Fairgrounds · Lubbock · TX
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule
The fair for the cotton country of the Texas Panhandle and South Plains has run in Lubbock since 1914, with nine days of livestock shows, a midway, and a grandstand concert series. It is the largest annual event in the region. (2026 dates approximate.)
The history within reach
- Panhandle South Plains Fairsame spot
The fair for the cotton country of the Texas Panhandle and South Plains has run in Lubbock since 1914, with nine days of livestock shows, a midway, and a grandstand concert series.
- The Buddy Holly Center0.8 mi
Lubbock keeps its son in a former railroad depot: the Fender he played, the glasses recovered from the Iowa field, the whole short arc from the Hi-D-Ho drive-in to the plane.
The cereal magnate bought a quarter million acres of caprock ranchland and built a utopia with no saloons and cheap houses, then spent years firing explosives into the sky trying to make it rain.
- Bob Wills Day78 mi
The tiny Panhandle town of Turkey, population under four hundred, has honored native son Bob Wills, the King of Western Swing, every April since 1972.
Colonel Mackenzie surprised the winter camps in the canyon in September 1874 and had roughly 1,400 captured horses shot.