Minnesota State Fair 2027

Minnesota State Fair 2027 runs Aug 26 – Sep 6, 2027, in Falcon Heights, Minnesota.

Falcon Heights, Minnesota (Minnesota State Fairgrounds).

Aug 26 – Sep 6, 2027.

Best categories: rv, trucks-vans. The Minnesota State Fair — the Great Minnesota Get-Together — is one of the largest state fairs in the United States by attendance, running the twelve days through Labor Day each year — August 26 through September 6, 2027, per the fair's published schedule. The scale is the story: a permanent 300-plus-acre fairground between Minneapolis and St. Paul with its own streets, grandstand concert series, machinery hill, livestock complexes, and food culture (Sweet Martha's cookie buckets, everything on a stick) that Minnesotans treat as a season of its own. There's no meaningful public RV camping on the grounds, so the play is a metro-edge basecamp: Lebanon Hills Regional Park in Eagan runs a wooded, well-kept campground about 25 minutes south, and the fair's park-and-ride network handles the last leg better than driving. The fair's final stretch overlaps Labor Day weekend — peak Minnesota camping demand — so book pad and rig 10 weeks out and favor weekday fair visits.

Recommended lead time: 10 weeks. Event windows book up early, so search and lock your dates as soon as your plans firm up.

August 26 to September 6, 2027 — twelve days ending Labor Day, per the fair's published schedule. Grandstand lineups roll out through spring and summer.

There's no general public RV camping on the grounds — Lebanon Hills Regional Park in Eagan, about 25 minutes south, is the established metro campground, with the fair's park-and-ride lots covering the last leg.

It's among the highest-attendance fairs in the country, and peak days are genuinely enormous. Weekday mornings are the calm window; the closing Labor Day weekend is the crush.

Attendance can top six figures on peak days — go at opening bell, set family meeting points, and use the transit park-and-rides instead of hunting street parking near the grounds.

Weekday mornings in the livestock and Miracle of Birth barns are the fair Minnesotans actually recommend — the crowds triple by noon and quadruple on the Labor Day weekend days.