{"id":19733,"date":"2015-02-26T02:21:44","date_gmt":"2015-02-26T10:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=19733"},"modified":"2015-02-26T02:21:44","modified_gmt":"2015-02-26T10:21:44","slug":"fairgrounds-more-than-fairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/fairgrounds-more-than-fairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairgrounds More than Fairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/fairgronz.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While most consider fairgrounds as the place for\u00a0county fairs, California&#8217;s 50+ fairground facilities maintain a roster of festivals and events all year long. Pet shows, gun shows, gem shows, bridal shows, horse shows, rodeos, and high profile festivals all happen at the fairgrounds. Here are a few counties with fairgrounds offering more than just fairs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/sonora-celtic-fair-festival.html\">Sonora Celtic Faire<\/a> &#8211; Motherlode Fairgrounds Mar. 6-8, 2015<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/stockton-asparagus-festival.html\">San Joaquin Asparagus Festival<\/a> &#8211; San Joaquin County Fairgrounds April 17-19<\/li>\n<li>Musink Tattoo &amp; Music Festival &#8211; OC Fairgrounds Mar. 20-22<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/bishop-mule-days.html\">Bishop Mule Days<\/a> &#8211; Tri-County Fairgrounds May 19-24<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/castroville-artichoke-festival.html\">Artichoke Festival<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Monterey\u00a0County Fair &amp; Events Center May 30-31<\/li>\n<li>High Sierra Music Festival &#8211; Plumas County Fairgrounds July 2-5<\/li>\n<li>Del Mar Antique Show &amp; Sale &#8211; San Diego County Fairgrounds April 17-19<\/li>\n<li>Scottish Festival &#8211; Kern County Fairgrounds April 18 (also Monterey &amp; Orange County Fairgrounds)<\/li>\n<li>Boonville\u00a0Beer Festival &#8211; Mendocino County Fairgrounds May 2<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/fairs\/calaveras-jumping-frog-jubilee.html\">Jumping Frog Jubilee<\/a> &#8211; at Calaveras County Fairgrounds May 14-17<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/grass-valley-california-worldfest.html\">California Worldfest Music Festival<\/a> &#8211; Nevada County Fairgrounds July 16-19<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/auburn-mandarin-festival.html\">Mandarin Festival <\/a>&#8211; Gold Country Fairgrounds \u00a0tba<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While most consider fairgrounds as the place for\u00a0county fairs, California&#8217;s 50+ fairground facilities maintain a roster of festivals and events all year long. Pet shows, gun shows, gem shows, bridal shows, horse shows, rodeos, and high profile festivals all happen at the fairgrounds. Here are a few counties with fairgrounds offering more than just fairs: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19733"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}