{"id":8554,"date":"2012-09-08T11:46:33","date_gmt":"2012-09-08T18:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=8554"},"modified":"2012-09-08T12:16:36","modified_gmt":"2012-09-08T19:16:36","slug":"fall-fairs-showcase-whats-great-about-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/fall-fairs-showcase-whats-great-about-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall Fairs Showcase What&#8217;s Great About California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/gcf.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Gold Country Fair in Auburn includes carnival rides, contests and clowns, plus the popular Destruction Derby. In 2012 food contests include brownies, cupcakes and watermelon. Also see the Busy Bee Dogs, Circus Imagination and more!<\/p>\n<p>As Autumn approaches you can feel crispness in the air with that cool breeze blowing into your city or town. It is the perfect time to celebrate one last thrill ride&#8211;Auburn, Fresno, Lodi and Bakersfield will have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/fairs\/butler-amusements-california-fairs.html\">Butler Amusements carnivals<\/a>. Celebrating the local harvest, livestock and talent are a few things that fairs are known for. Families, farmers, teens on dates, romantic couples and singles hoping to meet someone all find fairs to be a fantastic place to socialize and get energized. The fair season typically goes dark around November and starts back up in February in the desert region. Don&#8217;t overlook the fairgrounds for continued fun events when the fair&#8217;s not around.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2012 Fall Fairs in California<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Auburn<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/fairs\/auburn-gold-country-fair.html\">Gold Country Fair<\/a>\u00a0 September 6 &#8211; 9, 2012 \u00a0 goldcountryfair.com<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bakersfield<\/strong>&#8211; Kern County Fair Sept. 19 &#8211; 30, 2012\u00a0\u00a0 kerncountyfair.com<\/li>\n<li><strong>Boonville<\/strong> &#8211; Mendocino County Fair &amp; Apple Show\u00a0 Sept 21 &#8211; 23, 2012\u00a0 mendocountyfair.com<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fresno <\/strong>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/fairs\/fresno-county-fair.html\">Big Fresno Fair<\/a>\u00a0 October 3 &#8211; 14, 2012\u00a0\u00a0 fresnofair.com<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lodi<\/strong> &#8211; Grape Festival and Harvest Fair, with<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/wineries\/lodi-grape-stomp.html\"> Grape Stomp<\/a>\u00a0 Sept. 13-16, 2012\u00a0\u00a0 grapefestival.com<\/li>\n<li><strong>Madera<\/strong> District Fair Sept 6 &#8211; 9, 2012 \u00a0 maderafair.com<\/li>\n<li><strong>Perris<\/strong>\u00a0 &#8211; Southern California Fair\u00a0\u00a0 October 6 &#8211; 14, 2012\u00a0 socalfair.com<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pomona<\/strong> &#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/fairs\/los-angeles-county-fair.html\">Los Angeles County Fair<\/a>\u00a0 Aug. 31 &#8211; Sept. 30, 2012\u00a0 lacountyfair.com<\/li>\n<li><strong>Red Bluff <\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; Tehama District Fair\u00a0 Sept. 27 &#8211; 30, 2012\u00a0 tehamadistrictfair.com<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ridgecrest<\/strong> &#8211; Desert Empire Fair Oct. 18 &#8211; 21, 2012\u00a0 desertempirefair.com<\/li>\n<li><strong>San Benito<\/strong> &#8211; San Benito County Fair September 28 &#8211; 30, 2012\u00a0 (Tres Pinos, CA) \u00a0\u00a0 sanbenitocountyfair.com<\/li>\n<li><strong>Santa Rosa<\/strong> &#8211; Sonoma County Harvest Fair\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 October 5 &#8211; 7, 2012\u00a0 sonomacountyfair.com<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tulare <\/strong>Great Western Livestock Show Sept. 12 &#8211; 16, 2012\u00a0 tularefair.org<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tuleluke<\/strong> &#8211; Tulelake-Butte Valley Fair\u00a0\u00a0 September 6 &#8211; 9, 2012\u00a0 tbvfair.com<\/li>\n<li><strong>Watsonville<\/strong>\u00a0 &#8211; Santa Cruz County Fair\u00a0 Sept 11 &#8211; 16, 2012\u00a0 santacruzcountyfair.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>NOTE: SeeCalifornia.com is written by REAL PEOPLE with REAL biases for certain topics. We love food, entertainment and travel, all elements of California&#8217;s great fairs. The editor comes from a circus family (grandparents launched one of the first circuses in the U.S. and relatives continue to operate carnival rides and &#8220;joints&#8221; at various carnivals and fairs in North America. It&#8217;s &#8220;fair&#8221; to say we&#8217;re corny about &#8220;carnies&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo: Gold Country Fair in Auburn includes carnival rides, contests and clowns, plus the popular Destruction Derby. In 2012 food contests include brownies, cupcakes and watermelon. Also see the Busy Bee Dogs, Circus Imagination and more! As Autumn approaches you can feel crispness in the air with that cool breeze blowing into your city or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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\/8554"}],"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=8554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}