Bradford County Pennsylvania Troy Fair Festival

Late July brings Bradford County’s agricultural week to Troy, where the Troy Fair fills Alparon Park with livestock shows, a midway, free meadow entertainment and ticketed grandstand nights. Towanda, the county seat, does not host, so the week belongs to Troy.

About the Troy Fair at Alparon Park

The verified event is the Troy Fair itself, Bradford County’s annual late July fair, held at grounds the record names in three unmerged forms: Alparon Park, Alparon Community Park and Alparon Community Park, Incorporated. A ticket layer’s label, Troy Fairgrounds, is a venue label only, never the published grounds name. The published address, from the fair’s own 2026 Premium Book, expands to 436 Gate 1 Lane, Troy, Pennsylvania 16947, and a listing form spells it Gate One Lane. Other location layers stand unmerged: a park side form gives the junction of Routes 6 and 14, a news layer gives Route 14, and the municipality appears as Troy borough in the postal address, Troy Township in a 2024 state transport release and Troy Village in the centennial history.

Named spaces organise the visit: the Blaise Alexander Grandstands, the Lower Meadow with its Curren Powersports Pavilion, a Large Arena also called the Large Dairy Arena, a Swine Arena, Exhibit Halls 1 and 2, and Gates 1, 2 and 3. Three organiser forms stand unmerged, each in its layer. The Troy Fair Board heads the roster in the fair’s own 2026 Premium Book, whose President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer and Fair Manager are persons in that document only. Inside the same book, Department 19 rules run liability to the Troy Fair Association, a form belonging to that department alone. Alparon Community Park Inc appears in the state fair association’s listing as the grounds owning nonprofit, described in the park’s own words as a non tax nonprofit organisation, never the fair’s organiser outside that layer. Supporting bodies only are Houghton Enterprises, Penn State Extension with 4-H and FFA, the Bradford County Room Tax Fund and the Endless Mountains Visitors Bureau as funders, and sponsors Blaise Alexander, Curren Powersports and Tri-County Rural Electric.

Quick Facts

Item	Detail
Event	Troy Fair, the annual fair of Bradford County, Pennsylvania
Host town	Troy, which hosts the fair but is not the county seat
County seat	Towanda, which does not host the fair
Grounds	Alparon Park, also recorded as Alparon Community Park
Published address	436 Gate 1 Lane, Troy, Pennsylvania 16947
Season	Late July, running to August 1 in the 2026 layers
Gate model	Pay one price, with rides included in the fair week figure
General parking	Free in the fair’s own gate and concert layers
Camping	A fee facility is documented, with no published rate found

A Farmers’ Club, a Valley Homestead and a Move to Alparon

The founding record rests on direct statements in the centennial history titled One Hundred Years of the Troy Fair 1875–1975, published for the Troy Agricultural Society and the Alparon Community Park Association. It says events started in 1874, when men decided to further the progress of farming locally, and dates the Troy Farmers’ Club’s first meeting to Saturday, November 21, 1874, at the Grange Hall in the Pierce building in Troy, with B. F. Newbery as chairman and A. S. Hooker as secretary. In 1875 the Club set its first fair for October 8 and 9, 1875, at John McKean’s old homestead in Farmer’s Valley. The Society named there is a history body only, never the modern organiser. The book also records that after the 1881 fair a committee settled on Alparon Park, on John A. Parsons’ farm one mile northeast of Troy Village, leased from John Parsons and named for Dr. Alfred Parsons, the lease search dated to 1882 with no construction or purchase year supplied. Later entries note a Free Fair in 1955, harness racing reinstated in 1959 and Class C fair status for Department of Agriculture reimbursements.

The edition billings conflict and stay billing only: the 145th (2021 news layer), the 147th (2023 visitors layer) and the 124th year (2023 radio layer, same span), never merged with 1875 or computed from. The fair’s own 2026 homepage banner, Celebrating 250 Years of Freedom, Family, and PA Fairs, is America 250 billing, never an edition count, and a conservation district remark about just shy of 150 years is approximation colour only. The county’s 1810 creation is never the fair’s date. The book’s 1876 layer prices membership at one dollar, single admission at twenty-five cents and family tickets at six for one dollar, history figures only.

For a useful comparison, see the Blair County Pennsylvania Hollidaysburg Community Fair Festival for another county festival.

What to Expect During Fair Week

Livestock, Youth Shows and the Exhibit Halls

The 2026 Premium Book spreads the animal work across the week: youth market and breeding shows for swine, beef, lamb, goat and dairy animals, open dairy colour breed and Holstein shows, breeding sheep and goat shows, a breeding rabbit show, an open goat costume class and the Department 1 Draft Horse Show. Its check in days begin Friday, July 24, 2026, with dairy check ins July 25 and 26, the Draft Horse Show at 10 a.m. Sunday, July 26 and entry pick up Sunday, August 2, noon to 2 p.m., but those are exhibitor mechanics, never public days. Tuesday, July 28 brings the Youth Dairy Cattle Show, and the Youth Livestock Auction follows at 10 a.m. Wednesday, July 29.

The Lower Meadow and Free Entertainment

The gate page lists free Lower Meadow Pavilion entertainment among the things the gate covers, with free racing pigs and free Dennis Beach woodcarving. Tuesday, July 28, 2026 shows that side at full stretch: Rosaire’s Royal Racers, Dennis Beach, the Resistors, hypnotist Richard Barker, the 4-H Pet Show and Parade and Open Mic Night. A night earlier, Logan Route plays the Curren Powersports Pavilion Stage free with gate admission. In 2024, fair derived layers recorded a Drone Light Show on Monday and Tuesday nights, one hundred drones from Starlight Aerial Productions, sponsored by Curren Powersports and free with gate admission.

Grandstand Nights and the Midway

Evenings move to the Blaise Alexander Grandstands, ticketed separately because the gate page states that show tickets do not include gate admission. Tuesday, July 28, 2026 brings Skillet at 7 p.m. with Uncle Stosh’s Hardcore Pears opening, on Seniors Day and Tri-County Rural Electric Day. Wednesday, July 29 brings Brantley Gilbert at 8 p.m. Houghton Enterprises opens the midway from 1 p.m. on the Tuesday schedule, and the fair week gate includes all mechanical rides, some non mechanical rides excluded.

How Other Years Have Looked

Earlier programmes stay in their years. The 2021 news layer carried the Roots and Boots Tour, bull riding, demolition derbies and tractor pulls, while a 2022 listing offered live music, horse shows, baking contests, a scavenger hunt, animal shows and Dennis Beach daily. In 2023, visitors bureau and radio layers billed Chris Janson headlining July 26 with Clark Jackson opening, Aaron Kelly and Jimmy Mowery on the radio bill, plus truck pulls, tractor pulls, Bull Ride Mania, demo derbies and free shows daily on the Free Stage. For 2025, only a ministry tent open 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily is documented, the rest unverified.

Planning Your Visit

Dates and the 2026 Opening Day Question

Each span stands in its layer: July 26 to 31 in 2021, July 21 to 25 in 2022 in a fairs list layer only, July 24 to 29 in 2023, Monday, July 22 through Saturday, July 27 in 2024, and July 21 to 27 in 2025 in a ministry layer only, beyond which the 2025 span is unverified and may include that ministry’s tent days. For 2026 the opening day conflicts and both forms stand: the state Fair Guide and the Gate Passes page give July 26 to August 1, while the 2026 Premium Book cover gives July 27 to August 1. Neither is picked silently, and Tuesday, July 28 is fully documented under either reading.

Gate Passes, Parking and the One Free Window

This gate is never free, and the Gate Passes page, undated as fetched but matching the 2026 edition in its cut offs, sets the ladder. Pre sale passes sell only until July 25: daily six dollars without rides or eight including rides, weekly twenty-five without rides or forty including rides. Starting July 26, visitors pay ten dollars at the gate, including admission and all mechanical rides, some non mechanical rides excluded, with free parking and the free meadow entertainment, racing pigs and woodcarving included. The single free window is Seniors Day, Tuesday, July 28, 2026, seniors 65 and older free until 2 p.m. that day only. Earlier ladders stay in their years: 2022 gave six dollars without rides, eight with rides and ten dollars pay one price from July 23, a 2023 listing gave eight to ten dollars, and 2021 priced entry at eight dollars including admission, parking, on grounds entertainment, select rides and the fun house.

Concert Tickets, Exhibitor Money and Camping

The fair’s own 2026 concert page prices the Wednesday, July 29 Brantley Gilbert show by section: VIP seats three hundred dollars, Platinum two hundred, Gold one hundred, VIP Standing Pit one hundred twenty-five, Track Standing eighty-five, Grandstands seventy-five, Grandstands Preferred ninety-five, Grandstands Comfort width ninety-five and Side Bleacher B fifty-five, The Heartstrings opening at 7 p.m. Gate admission is not included, prices rise five dollars on July 25, and elite parking that night costs ten dollars pre buy only, opening 4 p.m., while general parking stays free. No other 2026 grandstand price, Skillet’s included, is verified on fair side evidence, and resale figures are excluded. Exhibitor money sits in the 2026 Premium Book by department: Open Dairy Cattle entries at six dollars per head, Department 19 fine arts entries at five dollars adult, three teen and two youth per entry with premiums of twenty-five, fifteen and ten dollars there, and department scales running from five, four, three and two dollars in a household department to forty-five, forty, thirty-five, thirty and twenty-five in a cart obstacle class, no figure travelling between departments. A line about late entries at thirty-five dollars per head for the 2025 year, due July 1, 2025, is carried over 2025 text, not a 2026 late fee. Camping is documented but unpriced: the vendor rules offer water and electric hook ups for a fee, count sleeping in cars or trailers as camping charged on a fee schedule, and point to camping forms, yet the schedule was never extracted, so the rate is unverified. The park layer offers nightly camping with water and sewer hook ups through a camp host year round, the hook up forms stand unmerged, and fair week terms are unverified entirely, the 2026 book holding no camping section.

A Sample Day at the Fair

Arrive through Gate 1 and give the first hour to the dairy barns. Cross to Exhibit Halls 1 and 2 before lunch, take the midway once rides open, then settle in the Lower Meadow for racing pigs and woodcarving. Drift back through the Swine Arena and Large Arena for late classes, and finish in the grandstands, remembering the evening show needs its own ticket.

How This Fair Compares

Many fairs charge again for rides inside, so folding admission and all mechanical rides into one ten dollar gate figure, in its own current layer, marks this model out. Grandstand concerts sit outside that gate entirely.

Your Visit Checklist

• Check which 2026 opening day form applies before travelling, since the state guide and the premium book cover disagree
• Buy pre sale passes before the July 25 cut off for the lower daily or weekly figures
• Carry the fair week gate figure in mind as ten dollars, mechanical rides included
• Plan grandstand concerts as a separate purchase, because show tickets never include gate admission
• Note the Seniors Day free window before 2 p.m. on Tuesday, July 28, 2026, for anyone 65 or older
• Leave parking out of the budget, since general parking is free in the fair’s own layers
• Treat camping as a facility arranged through the fair’s forms, with no published rate in advance
• Give the Lower Meadow free programme real time

Beyond the Fairgrounds

Troy extends a fair day naturally. Towanda holds the courthouse and county business; nothing about the fair proves the seat, and no Towanda address is the fairgrounds. The park’s own rentals, weddings, pool and camping live beyond fair week as the park’s events, never the fair’s programme.

Why the Troy Fair Matters to Bradford County

This is the week the county’s farm work becomes public, as premium book departments turn dairy cattle, swine, sheep, goats, rabbits, horses, produce and fine arts into judged exhibits. Youth shows give younger exhibitors a county stage with real premiums and a livestock auction attached.

Frequently Asked Questions

Where is the Troy Fair held, and which town is the county seat?

The fair is held in Troy, at grounds recorded as Alparon Park and Alparon Community Park, published at 436 Gate 1 Lane, Troy, Pennsylvania 16947. Towanda is Bradford County’s seat and does not host.

Is admission free, and what does the gate include?

No, apart from one fenced seniors window on one afternoon. Fair week entry costs ten dollars at the gate in the fair’s own layer, including admission, all mechanical rides, free parking and free Lower Meadow entertainment, while pre sale passes before July 25 cost less and grandstand tickets stay separate.

What does the headline 2026 concert cost?

The fair’s own page for Wednesday, July 29, 2026 lists seats from fifty-five dollars for Side Bleacher B to three hundred dollars for VIP seats, gate still to pay on top, prices rising five dollars on July 25.

Can visitors camp at the fair, and what does it cost?

The vendor rules document a camping facility with water and electric hook ups for a fee. No rate was published in the layers gathered, and fair week terms are unverified, so camping is documented but unpriced.

What to Expect From the Next Bradford County Pennsylvania Troy Fair Festival

How often is Bradford County Pennsylvania Troy Fair Festival held?

The fair is annual, held once each year in late July on this record, with documented editions from 2021 through 2026, each in its own fenced span. One edition’s cancellation due to COVID-19 in a secondary layer is why no unbroken run is claimed.

When is the next Bradford County Pennsylvania Troy Fair Festival?

The next edition belongs to the following summer’s late July season, but no 2027 span is published in this record, so no exact dates can be stated. The 2026 span itself stands as July 26 to August 1 in the state guide and gate layers against July 27 to August 1 on the premium book cover.

Will the dates change?

Documented editions have opened anywhere from July 21 to July 26, varying by year and layer. The 2026 disagreement between the fair’s own documents shows why each new span should be read in its own published layer rather than assumed.

The Troy Fair rewards visitors who read it on its own terms: a farmers’ club fair from 1875, still judged in the barns and still priced as one honest gate.