Coos County Oregon Fair Festival

The county fair that Coos County, Oregon, turns out for each summer is held not in the county seat but in Myrtle Point, where the fairgrounds sit at 770 4th Street. Its publishers have never settled on one styling: the fair’s 2025 exhibitor handbook calls it the Coos County Fair, the fair’s homepage heads its current edition the Coos County Fair & Rodeo, and the board’s meeting agendas spell the name out in capitals as the Coos County Fair and Rodeo. All three wordings describe the late-July run of livestock shows, open class exhibits and rodeo at one grounds. The record is paper-rich, with a full 2025 handbook, board agendas into February 2026 and Extension fair books for 2023 and 2024, yet no fair-side layer publishes a numeric price for walking through the gate.

About a Fair Published Under Three Names

The plain form, Coos County Fair, titles the 2025 Exhibitors Handbook for open class and appears on the Extension youth auction calendars. The ampersand form, Coos County Fair & Rodeo, heads the homepage’s 2026 edition, the 2025 vendor applications and the rules heading inside the 2025 book. The spelled-out form belongs to governance, since every Fair Board agenda carries the full name in capitals. None is treated here as the correct one; each belongs to its layer.

Running the fair sits with a board whose name also comes in two printed shapes. The 2025 book and every agenda use Coos County Fair Board, which the book gives the final and absolute right to interpret its rules. The same book’s opening-ceremonies script introduces the Coos County Fair & Rodeo Board Members by name, with Brad Burnette as fair chair in that layer. The two forms stand side by side rather than fused, and the membership lists across the September 2025, December 2025 and February 2026 agendas differ slightly, so no roster crosses years. The county commissioners named in the 2025 book receive thanks during those ceremonies, which makes them recognised guests, not the organiser; the OSU Extension office in Myrtle Point is a supporting channel for the 4-H programme, never the fair’s management.

The grounds carry layered addresses too. The museum layer separates a physical address, 770 4th Street in Myrtle Point, from a mailing address at PO Box 332, while the book’s cover and the agendas combine street and box in single lines; a post office box is never the ground visitors walk onto. The layers name the Oaks Pavilion, the Davenport Building, the main arena, a museum building above the Bunny Barn, and an Owen Building that one agenda prints as Owens Building. Board meetings in that building in Coquille move nothing: the fair and its fairgrounds remain in Myrtle Point.

Quick Facts

Point	What the record shows
Name forms	Coos County Fair in the 2025 handbook; Coos County Fair & Rodeo on the homepage and vendor applications; the spelled-out name in capitals on board agendas
Host town	Myrtle Point, Oregon
County seat	Coquille, which does not host this fair
Grounds	Coos County Fairgrounds, 770 4th Street, Myrtle Point, PO Box 332 mailing form in the museum layer
Organiser forms	Coos County Fair Board in the handbook and agendas; Coos County Fair & Rodeo Board in the 2025 book’s opening-ceremonies script
Documented 2025 span	July 22 to 26, 2025, in the fair’s own vendor application and handbook
Documented 2026 span	Opening day Tuesday, July 21, 2026, on the fair’s homepage; July 21 to 25 in vendor-directory layers
Gate prices	No numeric gate ladder published in any fair-side layer; the 2026 homepage offers a free opening Tuesday and half-price groups with the base price to be determined
Beginning	The fair’s own homepage dates its beginning to 1912

A Beginning the Fair Dates to 1912

The fair’s homepage makes the founding claim, saying that beginning in 1912 the fair became the main event of the summer for county residents and a county-wide showcase of agriculture, crafts, industry and business. That sentence is the earliest anchor this record allows. A sponsor of the fair’s wireless service repeats the year, describing the Myrtle Point fair as a fixture on the southern Oregon coast since 1912, corroborating the homepage without a second founding story.

For a useful comparison, see the Columbia County Oregon Fair Festival for another county festival.

A local timeline kept with the Coquille Valley museum material tells a busier version, kept in its own layer here: a first fair in Myrtle Point in 1912, a Coos and Curry Fair there in 1915, a first rodeo in 1924, an association renamed the Coos County Fair Association in 1934, and loggers’ show events added in 1963. Those are one timeline’s claims, not the fair’s published history, and the joint Coos and Curry name of 1915 belongs to that era alone. Summaries repeating the homepage text sometimes add a single wartime cancellation in 1942, but no fair-side layer supports it, so it is noted only to be set aside. No edition number appears in the record, so no anniversary count can be worked backwards from 1912.

What to Expect

The 2026 Edition as Its Own Homepage Bills It

For the newest edition, the fair-side evidence is a billing list rather than a schedule. The homepage promises carnival rides, a rodeo, a pie eating contest, fair food, vendors, livestock animals, art exhibits, trains and the museum, and that is all the programme detail the layers fetched contain. No 2026 concert name, rodeo start time, carnival operator or timetable appears there, and nothing from the fuller 2025 programme below may be borrowed to fill the silence.

The 2025 Programme in Its Own Handbook

The 2025 edition, themed Boots, Bands & Bulls in its handbook and vendor application alike, is documented hour by hour. Opening ceremonies began at ten on Tuesday morning south of the Davenport Building, with the year’s grand marshals introduced. Shows for livestock, horses and small animals ran through the week. Thursday brought the South Western Oregon Horseman’s Association Games to the main arena. Friday stacked a llama show, an open class horse show and a 4-H dog show at ten. Saturday closed the run with a parade stepping off at ten, the livestock auction at one, master showmanship contests at three and four, and a six o’clock rodeo whose half-time featured a children’s pig scramble, followed by live music at nine. Its departments ran from fine arts and culinary classes to animal departments for cattle, swine, sheep, goats, poultry, rabbits and cavies, llamas, exotics and horses. Each detail belongs to the 2025 book and to no other year.

Earlier Editions in the Extension Books

Extension 4-H fair books carry the two editions before that. The 2024 book schedules Sunday and Monday entries, judging contests and master showmanship through its week, and the Coos Youth Auction on its Saturday, although its weekday labels are internally garbled, so no precise opening day is drawn from it; a local newspaper column supplies the public span instead, opening Tuesday, July 23 and running through Saturday, July 27, 2024, in that layer only. The 2023 book runs shows from Wednesday, July 26 through Saturday, July 29, 2023, with the youth auction on the Saturday and exhibits released Sunday, July 30. No span for 2022 or earlier, and none for 2027, was found.

Planning Your Visit

What the Gate Will Cost

No gate price in dollars is published for any year in the layers fetched. The 2026 homepage says admission was free on the opening Tuesday, July 21, 2026, and that kids, seniors, active military members and veterans were offered half off, with the underlying price expressly marked to be determined in that layer. A free Tuesday is not a free fair, and a half-price promise without a base figure cannot be budgeted. For 2025, 2024 and 2023 no gate ladder appears; a museum note proves only that an admission existed, never an amount, and resale-site prices are excluded entirely.

Exhibitor Money Is Not Gate Money

Every dollar figure in the documents belongs to exhibitors or vendors, never visitors. The 2025 book charges five dollars for unlimited open class static exhibits while also stating that no entry fees apply to non-livestock entries unless specified, a tension inside one book reported as printed. Poultry pre-entry costs five dollars with a six-dollar late fee, a livestock department charges five dollars per animal, and premium ladders pay five, four and three dollars in several classes, all contingent on funds available. Educational and informational booth space in 2025 ran three hundred fifty dollars for a ten-by-ten and six hundred fifty for a ten-by-twenty, and the 2024 food-vendor application priced vendor weekly passes at thirty dollars, daily passes at six and parking passes at twenty — vendor-packet money, never a public ticket or parking charge.

Camping, and the Week of the Fair

The fair’s rental price list offers dry camping at thirty-five dollars a night, with no dump station and power and water that may or may not be available; it then states camping is not available during the fair, so the rate never applies to fair week. A 2024 vendor application asked accepted food vendors whether they wanted a vendor camping application, proving one existed while publishing no price or term. No public fair-week camping price, hookup rule or reservation term appears in any fair-side layer, so treat fair-week camping as unconfirmed.

A Saturday at the Fair, Following the 2025 Handbook

• Arrive before ten to watch the parade step off.
• Take a seat for the livestock auction at one in the afternoon.
• Stay for the master showmanship contests at three and at four.
• Finish at the six o’clock rodeo, pig scramble at half-time included, and live music at nine.

The Same Name, Pointing Elsewhere

Several fair-shaped things share words with this event and are not it. New Hampshire has its own Coos County, spelled with an umlaut in its own layers and seated at Lancaster, with its own fair traditions. Georgia has a Coosa Valley Fair around Rome, whose published admission figure surfaces in searches for this fair and is one more reason this article invents no gate price. Curry County’s fair at Gold Beach is separate, and its camping paperwork turns up in searches too. Myrtle Point itself hosts a Harvest Festival in late September, distinct from the July fair, and the fairgrounds spend the rest of the year on weddings, reunions and animal events. The Coos Youth Auction is no rival: in the Extension and handbook layers it sits inside fair week as the Saturday sale, a component of this fair.

A Fair-Week Checklist

• Confirm the dates for the specific year you plan to attend, because the documented spans shift within late July.
• Budget for admission without expecting a published figure, since no fair-side layer states a dollar gate price for any year.
• Bring both cash and a card for tickets, matching the homepage’s 2026 payment wording.
• Exhibitors: in the 2025 documents, poultry fees and the larger vendor payments fell due on June 15.
• Do not plan fair-week camping around the thirty-five-dollar rental rate, because the fair’s own rental list withdraws camping during the fair.
• Leave time for the fairgrounds museum, open ten until ten daily during the fair.

Beyond the Fairgrounds

The fairgrounds hold one attraction that outlasts fair week: the county fair museum, open on Sundays and for special events, and daily during the fair itself. Around it, Myrtle Point sits in the Coquille Valley, and the county gives a visitor three towns to keep straight: Coquille, the seat in the heart of the valley; Coos Bay, the largest city, out on the coast; and North Bend beside it. None hosts this fair, but together they frame the landscape of timber, farms and fishing that the exhibit halls draw from.

Why This Fair Carries the County’s Summer

The homepage’s own sentence explains the fair’s weight: by its account the fair became, from 1912 onward, the main event of the summer for Coos County residents. Its showcase runs wider than agriculture alone, taking in crafts, industry and business, which is why one week can hold a Lego build, a salsa judging, a youth auction and a rodeo. For a county whose seat, largest city and fair town are three different places, the Myrtle Point fairgrounds are where the whole county most visibly gathers.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where exactly is the fair held?

At the Coos County Fairgrounds, 770 4th Street in Myrtle Point, Oregon. Myrtle Point is not the county seat; that title belongs to Coquille, which hosts no part of this fair, and Coos Bay, the county’s largest city, hosts neither the seat nor the fair.

How much does it cost to get in?

No fair-side publication fetched states a dollar admission price for any year. The fair’s own 2026 homepage wording is the fairest summary: opening Tuesday, July 21, 2026 was free, and kids, seniors, active military members and veterans were offered half off, with the base price still to be determined in that layer.

Which days does the fair run?

The fair always lands in late July, though the exact days move. Fair documents fix July 22 to 26 for 2025; the homepage fixes the 2026 opening on Tuesday, July 21, with directory layers giving July 21 to 25 for that edition; a local column gives July 23 to 27 for 2024, and the Extension book gives show days of July 26 to 29 for 2023. No 2027 span appears.

Can I camp at the fairgrounds during the fair?

No public fair-week camping terms are published in the fair’s own layers. The rental list prices dry camping at thirty-five dollars a night and states that camping is not available during the fair, while a vendor camping application existed for accepted food vendors in 2024 without published terms.

What to Expect From the Next Coos County Oregon Fair Festival

How often is Coos County Oregon Fair Festival held?

Once a year, in late July. The record documents editions in 2023, 2024 and 2025 through Extension books, vendor papers and the handbook, and the homepage already carried the 2026 edition, with board agendas into February 2026 preparing it.

When is the next Coos County Oregon Fair Festival?

The latest edition in this record is the 2026 fair, opening Tuesday, July 21, 2026 on the homepage and running July 21 to 25 in the directory layers. No layer fetched published any 2027 dates.

Will the dates change?

They already drift within their late-July window: the run opened on July 26 in 2023, July 23 in 2024, July 22 in 2025 and July 21 in 2026, with five public days documented for 2025 and four show days plus a release day in the 2023 book. Check each year’s own publications rather than assume last year’s span repeats.

The fair that Myrtle Point hosts and Coquille does not remains, on its own telling, the main event of the Coos County summer. The most honest planning advice its record supports is simple: trust the dates it publishes, and distrust any price for it that the fair itself has not printed.