Lamoille County Vermont Field Days Festival
For three days each July, fair buildings on Johnson Plains wake up for the working heart of Lamoille County’s farm year. The Lamoille County Field Days brings pulling tractors, livestock rings, exhibit tables and a midway onto one permanent ground in Johnson, Vermont, run entirely by volunteers. Its own Fair Info page calls the occasion a traditional agricultural fair and counts about ten thousand visitors.
Its mailing address sits in Hyde Park, the county’s shire town, yet the fairground stands in Johnson, where fifteen acres were bought in 1980.
Johnson Hosts It
Johnson is the host town, and the fair’s own history fixes the settling moment: in 1980, fifteen acres were purchased for eighteen thousand three hundred dollars on Johnson Plains, and a permanent home was established on Route 100C in Johnson, with the first Field Days on the site in 1981. Hyde Park does not host this fair, and neither does Morrisville; both sheltered earlier versions, as history-layer placements only.
Quick Facts
| Item | Detail |
| Event | Lamoille County Field Days, a three-day agricultural fair |
| Host town | Johnson, Vermont |
| Grounds | Route 100C, Johnson Plains, in the fair’s own history |
| Listing address form | 203 Wilson Road, Johnson, in listing layers only |
| Shire town | Hyde Park, in the Vermont Statutes; it does not host |
| Mailing address | Post Office Box 357, Hyde Park, VT 05655, mailing only |
| Organiser | Lamoille County Field Days; directory form Lamoille County Field Days Inc |
| Standing timing | Three days in July; the standing weekend wording conflicts |
| Documented 2026 span | July 17 to July 19, 2026 |
| Admission position | No fair-side gate list; 2026 gate, parking and camping unverified |
A Name in Its Layers
The operating name throughout the fair’s own record is Lamoille County Field Days. Its homepage title styles the event the Lamoille County Field Days Agricultural Fair, a longer form standing in that layer only; inside the fair’s history the short form Field Days does the work, and LCFD survives only as a file-name abbreviation on the 2026 schedule.
Directory worlds add two stylings: tax-exempt listings print LAMOILLE COUNTY FIELD DAYS INC, while nonprofit directories print Lamoille County Field Days Inc, describing a 501(c)(3) promoting family agriculture. One directory layer assigns that body a founding year of 1964, never treated here as the fair’s founding, and a care-of name and a principal officer in those listings are persons inside single layers, never the organiser.
For a useful comparison, see the Franklin County Vermont Field Days Festival for another county festival.
Born at a Tractor Rodeo in Morrisville
The fair’s own history page begins with machinery rather than livestock. On August 12, 1961, with the involvement of the Young Farmers Organization and the Future Farmers of America, a Tractor Rodeo was held at Peoples Academy in Morrisville, coordinated by Si Jewett and Everett Harris, a teacher and FHA Advisor. In that page’s judgement, Field Days was born from this event; neither 1961 body is the fair’s organiser today.
The young event wandered: the Ivan Maxham farm on the Laporte Road from 1963 for four years, adding contests and horse pulling; a one-day edition on the Route 15 and Route 100 meadow in 1967; Silver Ridge Road in Hyde Park from 1969 through 1976; then Demars Field in Morrisville.
Survival was not guaranteed: the December 1974 board report showed a balance of five hundred ninety-four dollars against seven hundred seventy-nine dollars in bills, and a cutback from two days to one was nearly made before donated support reversed it by April and carried the fair to three days. After the 1980 purchase the ground gained its buildings in stages: a pole barn in 1981, an Arts and Crafts building in 1982, and a Farm Bureau and 4-H building in 1984.
Two age wordings stand unmerged over that sequence. The current Fair Info page describes the association as now in its sixty-second year in its current form, building on a county fair history here going back many decades further, while an older mirror said sixtieth year instead. No founding year can be worked backwards from either count, and the many-decades phrase carries no date, so no pre-1961 founding year is asserted. For 2020, no layer documents a holding or a cancellation, so neither is claimed.
What to Expect on the Johnson Grounds
Pulling Power and the Show Rings
Pulling is the spine of this fair, inherited from the founding rodeo: antique tractor pulling, garden and modified garden tractor pulls, street-legal and diesel truck pulls, plus ox, horse and pony pulling. Around the tracks sit 4-H dairy and horse shows, open horse showing, and agricultural-products exhibits. That 2026 book covered eggs, fruit, hay, honey, silage, maple products and vegetables, taking entries on July 16, 2026, between 3:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. Harlow Hall, the White Arena, the Dennis Ferland Arena and the Covered Pulling Arena divide the work, and those names are space names only.
The Daily Rhythm of the 2026 Schedule
The fair’s own 2026 schedule opens gates and buildings at 9:00 a.m. each day, the midway at 10:00 a.m. and a Flag Raising at 9:15 a.m. Daily fixtures include the Little Diggers Playground, Aunt Jane’s Tea Party Tent, the Wee Wee Wee Racing Pigs, the Redneck Magic Show, Larry Ebere at the Gazebo, sheep dog demonstrations, a pie eating contest and bingo. A few times in that document are garbled as printed, and nothing here rests on one of them.
The 2026 Bill, Day by Day
Friday, July 17, 2026 carries an Ox Pull at 10:00 a.m., garden tractor pulls at 6:00 p.m., Dragon Man, and Krazy Kountry from 8:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Saturday answers with the Open Horse Show, a Lumberjack Round-up, a Horse Pull, the 4-H Dairy Show, Jason Tardy’s juggling, Rockin’ Ron The Friendly Pirate, truck pulls at noon and 6:00 p.m., and the Lawless Band from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Sunday closes with the 4-H Horse Show, the Pony Pull, the Northern Vermont Underhand Skillet Toss, Wade Noyes, the Antique Tractor Pull at noon and a Pedal Pull. Every name here belongs to 2026 alone: no dated bill for 2025 or 2024 was published in any layer fetched, so no act is assigned to those years beyond the standing families.
Planning Your Visit
Addresses, a Postal Box and a Shire Town
Aim for Johnson, and read the address layers unmerged. The fair’s own history places the permanent grounds on Route 100C at Johnson Plains; a place listing’s VT-100C form stands in its layer only, and listing layers for 2025 and 2026 print 203 Wilson Road, Johnson, VT, a street form standing beside the fair-side placement without displacing it.
Vermont uses shire towns rather than the county-seat framing common elsewhere, and the Vermont Statutes, Title 24, chapter 1, section 9, state that Hyde Park is the shire town, a status proven from the statute alone that gives Hyde Park no part in hosting. The fair’s footer prints its mailing address as Post Office Box 357, Hyde Park, VT 05655. An older listing carried Post Office Box 103, Johnson, VT 05656, with a different contact number, in its old layer only. No telephone number from any layer is printed here.
Money Questions the Record Leaves Open
No gate-price list from the fair itself rendered in any layer fetched, so every figure belongs to its reporting layer. Listing layers for the July 18 to 20, 2025 edition printed a single figure of fifteen dollars, never restated here as the fair’s own published price, never split into tiers, and never carried into 2026, for which no gate figure was published anywhere.
An undated university extension document for a 4-H dairy show at this fair says the exhibitor and one adult enter free while everyone else pays a fair entry fee of ten dollars; because its year is unstated, that figure may not be printed as any particular year’s gate, and its three-dollar charge per animal, payable to a 4-H foundation, is exhibitor money rather than admission. One more figure stands fenced to its decade: in 1995 this fair became, in its own billing, the first fair in the state to start a pay-one-price ticket covering all entertainment and midway rides for five dollars, money from 1995 only, under a priority claim that is the fair’s own rather than a verified ranking. No child, senior, season-pass or ride price for 2024, 2025 or 2026 appears in any layer fetched.
Parking and Camping: Two Blank Spaces
No parking price, free-parking promise or parking term was published in any layer fetched for any year, so parking is unverified entire: nobody should budget around a lot fee that exists nowhere in print, nor promise themselves free parking on this evidence. Camping stands identically, with no fair-side rate, rule, hookup term or fair-week provision anywhere in the layers fetched. The fair’s grounds rental and winter storage offerings are off-season services, never fair-week camping, and no nearby campground’s terms may fill the gap.
A Saturday From the 2026 Schedule
Treat this itinerary as a shape drawn from one document, the schedule for Saturday, July 18, 2026, not a promise about any other year. Arrive as gates open at nine and give the late morning to the Open Horse Show and the exhibit tables. Split midday between the racing pigs and the first truck pulls at noon, then return in the evening for the Lawless Band.
Neighbours by Name Only
The comparisons worth making here are mostly denials. Franklin County Field Days at Highgate and the Addison County Fair & Field Days at New Haven share Vermont and the words Field Days with Johnson’s event, yet shared wording is never evidence of a shared event or organiser, and none of their dates, gates, camping terms or history may fill gaps in this record; Addison’s camper form documents Addison’s fair alone. Lamoille, Nevada, an Elko County community named after Vermont, contributes nothing in either direction. The Lamoille County Players, the 4-H Foundation and the extension service itself are separate bodies; 4-H is an exhibitor programme inside this fair, never its organiser. Even an old invitation urging families toward Hyde Park for the pulls is a wording in an old layer, not host evidence.
A Fairgoer’s Checklist
- Write to Post Office Box 357, Hyde Park, knowing the box is mailing only
- Carry flexible money, since no gate list is published and the 2026 gate is unverified
- Make no parking assumption, because no parking term is published for any year
- Arrange lodging away from the grounds, since no fair-week camping term exists
Beyond the Fairgrounds
A Field Days weekend leaves room for the rest of Lamoille County and the towns the statute lists within it. Hyde Park rewards a visit as the shire town and a historic home between 1969 and 1976, rather than as a place to look for today’s fairground. Morrisville holds the birthplace layer, since Peoples Academy there hosted the 1961 Tractor Rodeo.
Why the Paper Trail Matters
Most fairs present continuity as one smooth line, while this one publishes a messier and more believable story: a borrowed-farm childhood, a bank balance measured in hundreds of dollars, and a near cutback survived on donated support. That candour is the fair’s real credential. Its 1995 pay-one-price step, claimed in its own billing as a first for the state, matches a volunteer association drawing ten thousand visitors onto fifteen owned acres.
Frequently Asked Questions
Where is the Lamoille County Field Days actually held?
In Johnson, on the permanent grounds the fair’s own history places on Route 100C at Johnson Plains. Listing layers give the street form 203 Wilson Road, Johnson, for the same fairgrounds, standing beside that placement unmerged. Hyde Park, the shire town, holds only the mailing box and an earlier chapter of the history; neither it nor Morrisville hosts the fair today.
How much does admission cost?
The honest answer is layered, because the fair’s own pages publish no gate list in any layer fetched. A single fifteen-dollar figure appears in listing layers for the 2025 edition alone, an undated 4-H dairy-show document mentions a ten-dollar entry fee without stating its year, and the fair’s own history prices its pay-one-price ticket at five dollars in 1995. No 2026 gate figure was published anywhere, so the current gate is unverified.
Can visitors camp at the fairgrounds, and is parking free?
Neither question can be answered from this record. No camping rate, hookup term, camper rule or fair-week provision appears in the fair’s own Fair Info page, history, 2026 schedule or 2026 Agricultural Products book. Parking is in the same state, with no price, promise or term published for any year, so grounds rental and winter storage should never be mistaken for a camping offer.
How old is the fair, and who runs it?
Lamoille County Field Days, the name its own record uses throughout, runs the fair, with an incorporated styling, Lamoille County Field Days Inc, in directory layers beside it. Its own history starts at a Tractor Rodeo held at Peoples Academy in Morrisville on August 12, 1961. Age wordings of sixty-second year and sixtieth year stand in different layers, no founding year is calculated from either, and a directory’s 1964 year is never merged with the 1961 rodeo.
What to Expect From the Next Lamoille County Vermont Field Days Festival
How often is Lamoille County Vermont Field Days Festival held?
The fair is an annual event, held across three days each July in Johnson. Its own current Fair Info page phrases the standing slot as the third full weekend of July, while a mirror of the fair’s text phrases it as the fourth full weekend. Those wordings stand side by side and unsettled, because the fenced spans by year are the reliable guide.
When is the next Lamoille County Vermont Field Days Festival?
No 2027 dates were published in any layer fetched, so the next edition’s span is unverified and cannot be projected from the conflicting weekend wordings. The record instead holds recent fenced spans: July 19 to 21 in 2024, July 18 to 20 in 2025, and July 17 to 19 in 2026 in the fair’s own schedule. An older fair-season layer placed a July 22 to 24 span in 2022, in that layer only. Wait for the fair’s own schedule for the year in question rather than counting weekends.
Will the dates change?
They already move within July from year to year, as the three fenced spans above show. Nothing locks the fair to one weekend formula, since its own texts state that formula in two incompatible ways. Expect a three-day July fair in Johnson whose exact dates are settled only when the fair publishes them.
The fair that began as a one-day tractor rodeo now owns its ground and its story, gaps included. Go for the pulling track and the exhibit tables, and let Johnson, not the mailing address, set your course.
