Fair Season In Maine Starts This Weekend: Get The Entire Maine Season Schedule Here

The Maine Agricultural Fair Season begins this week with the Maple Meadow Fair Festival in Mapleton. It runs June 25th and 26th and it will feature beekeeping, hops growing, horseshoeing, pickling potatoes, hay baling, live music, food and more.

Here's some quick facts about fairs in Maine:

Maine has 26 licensed fairs
860,000 people visited Maine fairs in 2014
Most northern fair: Northern Maine Fair in Presque Isle
Most southern fair: Acton Fair in Acton
Largest Fair: Fryeburg Fair (304,500 visitors)

Here's the rest of the 2015 fair schedule:

July:

2-5: Houlton Fair
9-12: Ossipee Valley Fair
17-19: Waterford World's Fair
23-26: Pittston Fair
24-8/1: Northern Maine Fair in Presque Isle

August:

July 31st-August 9th: Bangor State Fair
July 30th - August 2nd: Monmouth Fair
4-9: Topsham Fair
13-22: Skowhegan State Fair
17-18: Maine Farm Days in Clinton
22-29: Union Fair
27-30: Piscataquis Valley Fair
27-30: Acton Fair

September:

August 30 - Sept. 7: Windsor Fair
3-7: Blue Hill Fair
4-7: Springfield Fair
4-7: Harmony Free Fair
10-13: Clinton Lions Agricultural Fair
11-13: Litchfield Fair
16-19: Oxford County Fair
18-20: New Portland Lion's Fair
20-26: Farmington Fair
25-27: Common Ground Fair
27-Oct.3rd: Cumberland Fair

October:

4-11: Fryeburg Fair