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Sonoma County Fair
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9 reviews for Sonoma County Fair
Who deosn't love to walk around on dead grass, smell horse poo, eat so much sugar that their teeth feel like falling out, gauck and be gaucked at by the passer byers, take photos with you buddy, ride the farris wheel with your bestest, feel your stomach quickly strat to come out your mouth...( but not ;-p), drink rediculously expensive coors and bud light, watch the races, demolishing cars,mack on some chilli dogs and garlic fries, the swings.. who could forget the swings...,walk the gardens, buy endless amounts of crap ya don't need; but have to have,take goofy pictures with dinasours, talk to carnies, tell the carnies at the games maybe and act like you're interested to see if they give you a deal and say nevermind, wait in line to pee in thee most disgusting bathroom you'll see the entire year and spend way to much money on rides that 10 years ago seemed like 5 minutes long at least?? Who does this? Sonomians!! Santa Rosians and all the townies alike. ME,ME,ME!!!
The Sonoma county fair is a much awaited time in a young kids life and alas, even as adults the experiences change a little but most of it stays the same.. new addition since my last fair experience: beer. I like it much better now, however, man o man, $12 for a coors light! WTF??1 I repeat: WTF??!!
Oh well, it's once a year and my girlfriend and I have gone nearly every year. When we were kids we went as many times as possible. It was amazing. You'd think we were in heaven.
My PID/F (partner in dinning/fun) normally since a non-yelper (I know, geez) I would leave just at that, however, Heather H. I am trying to convert so, Heather H. and I had a ball. A great day feeling like a kid. Everyone should check it out.
I feel like I am cornered to rate this fair 2ish stars because when I reflect on my experience I am left feeling, meh.
The whole experience was underwhelming, even the people watching. What has happened to our economy to make even a little local fair so crapilicious. What a shame.
I dined on a pronto pup, supposedly the original hot dog on a stick that has been serving fairgoers since 1956. It was decent enough, hot and fresh which is normally more than can be expected from fair food.
I think my highlight was the homemade rootbeer at one of the stands. It was quite delicious and served in a true redneck fashionable tin cup with an oakey scene on it. Classic.
Flower exhibit is worth a gander should you be going.
One plus, I guess in this economy even the hoodlums have to cut back. There were far less questionable folks compared to previous years.
How can you hate this place? My entire year is spent in nail biting anticipation of this delightfully trashy celebration of wifebeater wearing, tooth missin' rebel flag wearing people watching. And you can't mess with deep fried twinkies. And the destruction derby? Can I get a gut scratchin, bud drinkin HELL YEAH?!!
Also, the horseman in me loves coming to the racetrack for the ponies. I mean, as much as you want to make fun of the fair you can't deny that we are blessed with one of the few turf tracks at and county fairs in the state. And we're also blessed with the amazing Russel Baze riding here each year.
Knock on it if you want, but this fair is a great slice of Sonoma County for all the right (and sometimes very wrong) reasons.
I absolutely love the fair! Look out for my Yelp reviews of all the fair food and beer booths in Summer of 2009!
I always go as many nights as I can. Usually, we start off with treating ourselves to a little herbal aromatherapy in the Vet's building parking lot and then head in to wander around for hours looking at all the beautiful members of our little community here.
This is Sonoma County, so there is always one or two local microbrews on tap. The $8 I pay per beer never prevents me from getting a bit tipsy.
The horse races are also really exciting and bring out the gambling addict in me. I've never won big money here but I always have fun.
I might take in a concert or three at the Mexican Village. We get some top-rated acts here in Santa Rosa -- I think we rocked out to Eddie Money in 2006. Get yourself "two tickets to paradise" at the Sonoma County Fair!
Great displays and gorgeous plants and flowers at the "highlight" (for me) at The Garden Time Forgot - what a tremedous and very well-thought out exhibit and joint effort by all who participated to present such an amazing display for the delight of everyone!! Lots of people, animals and dinosaurs!! Take your darn camera and quit talking and snap everything!! Take the kids who will be fascinated with the flowers, the dinosaurs, and the reptiles!!! Wot? YOU have NO kids? Find some and take them ~ they'll love you for it and so will their parents!! Lots of food available of all cultures, tastes and types!!!! Didn't eat much but talked to many at the fair plus the photography opportunities are waaaay too numerous!! Daily schedule of performances, acts and events each day available (free). Unlike other fairs I've attended these past few weeks & days, schedules displayed at stages so everyone knows what's going to happen ~ THANKs!! Don't take a tripod as too many big & little feet make it hazardous!! Admission fee lower than most fairs in the Bay Area and I think it was well-worth it!! Some pixs posted ~ more flora pixs are posted at my picture site ~ enJoY!!!!
I don't care that it's usually the same thing year after year... I get a kick out of it every time :D Don't like paying for admission? Enter one picture or craft and get a free ticket. Sure the animals smell a bit... just go to the Clover stand and get some free ice cream; then you should feel better. There are so many types of food to try; my favorites are the funnel cakes and gyros, and my family loves the Willie Bird turkey legs. The rides are actually pretty fun, even though I've done them many times before. There are all kinds of shows and other fun things for kids that are different every day; the year before last year, they even had the Jonas Brothers before they got big! (I almost saw them.) The huge emporium is also pretty fun to see, with the displays and products; I got a great pair of sunglasses there. SCF=Good times, good times.
CRAP FAIR. Cost to damn much to. Rides SUCK. Parking SUCKS. 15 bucks to park? HELL NO. And then it's 30 bucks per person so me thinks not. Don't waste your time.
Years ago we used to have a awesome fair, great rides and entertainment but as with everything else in Santa Rosa, the people in charge ruined this too. The only things good with the fair is the rodeo, hall of flowers, and animals. Everything else is crap. Oh and I hear the admission prices are being raised this year to $10 a person and I'm sure it will be $25 to $30 to park, how sad.
Gross and full of trailer monkey's... I love me some county faires and was really excited to go visit this one.... Parking was a nightmare, not much to look at, scarry looking rides... we pretty much walked around for 2 hours, got bored and left.... The only cool thing we did see there was a guy who made a huge model of San Francisco with toothpicks and he had ping pong balls running through it.... it was awesome... Other then that it made me feel dirty.