Minnesota State Fair Crowd Trends | Duluth News

Duluth News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Aug 28, 2026 · 1m

Minnesota State Fair crowds are hitting record highs, with daily tracking revealing historic attendance—even setting a post-pandemic record last year and a new single-day mark on the first Monday. While most recent records date back to 2024, 2019, or 2018, the first Sunday record still holds a nostalgic 1994 crown. The fair, born in 1859 after Minnesota became a state, has grown from a six-day event to its current 12-day format since 1975, and has been canceled six times—including once during the Civil War. Attendance stats began in 1887, but early counts were rough, like tallying cars. For…