{"id":6100,"date":"2012-05-31T11:50:11","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T18:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=6100"},"modified":"2012-05-31T11:56:06","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T18:56:06","slug":"june-2012-fairs-in-california-offer-carnival-rides-funky-foods-and-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/june-2012-fairs-in-california-offer-carnival-rides-funky-foods-and-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"June 2012 Fairs in California Offer Carnival Rides, Funky Foods and Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/cafar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s that fun time of year. It&#8217;s time to ditch the bikini and head to the fair. Wear blue jeans and a t-shirt so you can pork out on delicious BBQ sandwiches, roasted corn and the newest desserts this year. In the past fair-goers tasted fried butter on a stick, fried frog legs, fried candy bars and other such artery-clogging confections. Of course there&#8217;s the ever-popular pig races, plus a barnyard full of fun&#8211;cows, sheep and chickens. Contests include pie baking, wood-crafting and sewing&#8211;some call them lost arts but at the county fair there&#8217;s still a homespun atmosphere as comforting as Mom&#8217;s apple pie! Try a fair. You&#8217;ll like it!<\/p>\n<p><strong>2012 June Fairs in California<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Alameda <\/strong>&#8211; Alameda County Fair June 20 &#8211; July 5, 2012\u00a0 alamedacountyfair.com<\/li>\n<li><strong>Anderson<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0 Shasta District Fair\u00a0 June 13 &#8211; 17, 2012 shastadistrictfair.com<\/li>\n<li><strong>Antioch<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/fairs\/contra-costa-fair.html\">Contra Costa County Fair<\/a>\u00a0 May 31 &#8211; June 3,\u00a0 2012\u00a0\u00a0 ccfair.org<\/li>\n<li><strong>Calistoga<\/strong> &#8211; Napa County Fair\u00a0\u00a0 June 29 &#8211; July 4, 2012\u00a0\u00a0 napacountyfairgrounds.com<\/li>\n<li><strong>Del Mar<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/fairs\/san-diego-fair.html\">\u00a0San Diego County Fair\u00a0<\/a> June 8 &#8211; July 4, 2012\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 sdfair.com<\/li>\n<li><strong>Eureka<\/strong> &#8211; Redwood Acres Fair &amp; Rodeo June 21 &#8211; 24, 2012 redwoodacres.com<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/fairs\/merced-county-fair.html\"><strong>Merced<\/strong> County Fair<\/a> &#8211; June 13- 17, 2012\u00a0 mercedcountyfair.com<\/li>\n<li><strong>Petaluma<\/strong> &#8211; Sonoma-Marin Fair\u00a0\u00a0 June 20 &#8211; 24, 2012\u00a0 sonoma-marinfair.org<\/li>\n<li><strong>Placerville<\/strong> &#8211; El Dorado County Fair\u00a0 June 14 &#8211; 17, 2012 eldoradocountyfair.org<\/li>\n<li><strong>Quincy <\/strong>\u00a0Plumas-Sierra County Fair<strong> <\/strong>Aug 8 &#8211; 12, 2012\u00a0\u00a0 plumas-sierracountyfair.net<\/li>\n<li><strong>Roseville<\/strong> &#8211; Placer County Fair June 21 &#8211; 24, 2012\u00a0 placercountyfair.org<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/fairs\/san-mateo-county-fair.html\"><strong>Santa Mateo<\/strong> County Fair<\/a> June 9 &#8211; 17, 2012 sanmateocountyfair.com<\/li>\n<li><strong>Stockton<\/strong> &#8211; San Joaquin Fair June 15 -19, 2011\u00a0 sanjoaquinfair.com<\/li>\n<li><strong>Susanville<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0 Lassen County Fair\u00a0 June 18 &#8211; 22, 2012 lassencountyfair.org<\/li>\n<li><strong>Victorville<\/strong> -San Bernardino County Fair\u00a0\u00a0 May 26 &#8211; June 3, 2012 sbcfair.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s that fun time of year. It&#8217;s time to ditch the bikini and head to the fair. Wear blue jeans and a t-shirt so you can pork out on delicious BBQ sandwiches, roasted corn and the newest desserts this year. In the past fair-goers tasted fried butter on a stick, fried frog legs, fried candy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6100"}],"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=6100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}