Tillamook County Oregon Fair Festival
On the Oregon coast, where dairy country meets Tillamook Bay, the county fair keeps a steady pattern: four days in early to mid August, Wednesday through Saturday, on fairgrounds east of downtown Tillamook. Livestock barns, exhibit halls, a midway, horse racing, and grandstand nights fill those days, and the grandstand costs nothing extra beyond the gate.
About the Tillamook County Fair
The verified event is the annual Tillamook County Fair at the Tillamook County Fairgrounds in Tillamook, proven current across 2024, 2025, and 2026 layers. Tillamook is both the county seat and the host town: the Oregon Encyclopedia calls Tillamook the county seat of Tillamook County and its largest city. The fair’s own About layer gives the address, spelled out, as 4603 East Third Street, Tillamook, Oregon 97141,
Running the fair is the Fair Board together with its hired Director. The fair’s own About layer states that the Fairgrounds is a branch of Tillamook County, that five lay citizens appointed by the County Commissioners make up the Fair Board, which advises the Director, and that the Board, Director, and staff control the entire operation as directed in ORS 565.230. The county is the parent government, never the organiser name. Camy VonSeggern appears as a person in the director’s job under two title forms in different layers, fair director in a July 2026 county release and Fairgrounds Manager in 2024 and 2025 news layers, never harmonised. Extension and 4-H and FFA, the Junior Livestock Auction Committee, Rainier Amusements, Havoc Productions, the Oregon Racing Commission, and sponsors including the Creamery Association stand in supporting layers only.
Quick Facts
| Point | What the record shows |
| Event | Tillamook County Fair, annual, early to mid August |
| Host town and county seat | Tillamook, Oregon, both seat and host |
| Grounds | Tillamook County Fairgrounds, 4603 East Third Street, Tillamook, Oregon 97141 |
| Organiser | Fair Board and its hired Director, under ORS 565.230 |
| 2026 span | August 5 to 8, 2026, 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. daily |
| 2025 gate ladder | Forty-five dollars season, fifteen dollars adult 13 and up, ten dollars child 6 to 12 |
| Grandstand entertainment | Included in fair admission, 2025 layers |
| Signature programme | Pig-N-Ford Races, race meet, demolition derby |
| Modern camping | No fair-side camping term published |
History of the Fair and Its Grounds
The fair’s own History page tells a grounds story, not a founding story. In 1921, the page states, a county-wide levy of one million dollars was approved to acquire and build the present fairgrounds; Fair Board member R. C. Magarelle donated 83.75 acres east of the City of Tillamook and the Williams family donated another 7.7 acres. In 1925, the County Fair was held in the new domed exhibit building, and in 1926 and 1927 the Grandstand, Barns, and Dance Hall were added; today, the page says, approximately 63 acres remain. The page states no founding year for the fair itself, so none is supplied here.
A separate State of Oregon layer says the Tillamook County Fair has been around since 1891, besides horse racing offering agricultural displays and a midway. That statement stands in the state layer only, never merged with the fair’s own 1921 grounds sequence. The rentals layer says the fairgrounds has occupied just over 60 acres east of downtown Tillamook City for more than 100 years, a size form standing unmerged with the History page’s. The Pig-N-Ford Races carry their own layered history: the 2024 book bills them as world famous and as part of the fair for the past 99 years, while a 2025 coastal-news layer traces them to a 1925 Model T pig-retrieval incident, with a 100 years billing in that layer. No founding year for the races or the fair is back-calculated from any of those figures.
For a useful comparison, see the Sherman County Oregon Fair Festival for another county festival.
What to Expect
Grandstand Nights Included in the Gate
Grandstand entertainment belongs to the gate in this fair’s own account: the 2025 layers state that fair admission includes the nightly entertainment in the Grandstand Arena, with no additional charges for concert performances once a fair ticket is purchased, and the 2024 book bills its grandstand concerts as free with fair admission. Resale figures for the concerts are excluded entire and are never this fair’s gate. In 2024: Girl Named Tom (Wednesday), Eagle Eyes (Thursday), Kameron Marlowe (Friday), demolition derby (Saturday). In 2025: Chase Matthew (Wednesday), Taken By The Sky (Thursday), Waylon Wyatt (Friday), demolition derby Saturday at 8:00 p.m. In 2026, in listing and mirror layers: Niko Moon, Oregon’s 234th Army Band, Collective Soul. No 2026 Saturday programme item was extracted, so no 2026 derby, Pig-N-Ford time, or closing event is asserted from earlier patterns.
Pig-N-Ford Races and the Race Meet
Two racing traditions share the fairgrounds and should not be confused with each other or with the separate June rodeo. In the 2024 book, the Pig-N-Ford Races run at 5:30 p.m. twice each day, with finals on Saturday; the 2025 concert page says every concert night kicks off with the Pig-N-Ford Races. The pari-mutuel horse racing is a different programme: the 2024 “John Harris” Race Meet ran at 1:00 p.m., eight races Wednesday through Friday and nine on Saturday, with over one hundred thousand dollars in purse money, which is race-meet money, never a ticket or gate figure. That race meet is inside the fair; the June Tillamook County Rodeo at the same grounds is a separate event with its own dates.
Exhibits, Livestock, and the Courtyard Stage
Beyond the grandstand, the 2024 book lays out a full fair week: open class exhibits, Grange exhibits, the 4-H and FFA programme, Fair Acres, and Courtyard Stage entertainment daily from 10:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Grounds buildings appear as sub-venue names in their layers, never as the grounds address.
Two Themes for 2024, Neither Settled
A regional-news layer quoting the fairgrounds manager gives “Country Roots and Cowboy Boots” as the 2024 theme, while the 2024 book’s Grange-booth wording says booths may use the fair theme “Let Freedom Ring”. Neither form is printed here as the settled 2024 theme without its layer, and neither is carried to 2025 or 2026, for which no theme was found in any layer fetched. The 2017 mirrored programme carries its own billing, “Barn in the USA”, fenced to 2017.
Planning Your Visit
Dates and Hours, Year by Year
The 2024 fair ran August 7 to 10, 2024, Wednesday through Saturday, in the fair’s own 2024 book and a regional-news layer. The 2025 fair ran August 6 to 9, 2025, in the fair’s own tickets page admission block and concert pages. The 2026 fair ran August 5 to 8, 2026, from 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. daily, in the fair’s own tickets page header and a state racing layer. A social-mirror planning line mentioning August 11 to 14, 2027, is a planning form only, never a published span.
Admission, Year by Year
The tickets page carries a 2026 header over a block labelled August 6 to August 9, 2025; the split below is recorded exactly as printed, never resolved. For 2025, the labelled block gives a four-day season pass at forty-five dollars, adult any day at fifteen dollars for ages 13 and up, and child any day at ten dollars for ages 6 to 12. For 2026, no general daily or season ladder is separately labelled, so the 2026 general ladder is unverified and the 2025 figures must never be reprinted as 2026’s. Under the 2026 header, special rates only: Wednesday, August 5, canned-food drive, 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., kids 15 and under free with two cans for the Oregon Food Bank; Thursday, August 6, seniors 62 and up and military and veterans with identification at ten dollars.
The 2024 fair-book ladder gives adult 13 and up at twelve dollars per day, a four-day season pass at thirty-eight dollars, child 6 to 12 at eight dollars per day, and on Thursday, August 8, only, seniors 62 and up and military and veterans with identification at eight dollars. The book’s canned-food panel gives kids 15 and under free entry with two cans before 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday, August 7. Older ladders use different age bands and stand fenced to their years, never harmonised.
Parking, Carnival, and Other Money
None of the money below is gate admission. On the tickets page under the 2026 header: general parking at five dollars per day, sold only during the fair; general season passes at twenty dollars each through August 5; premium parking at thirty dollars per day online; premium season passes at one hundred dollars each from July 15 through August 5. A 2024 news layer prints general parking at five dollars per car or twenty dollars for premium parking, conflicting with the thirty-dollar premium daily figure; neither overwrites the other.
Carnival money belongs to 2024 only: Rainier Amusements offers “All You Can Ride” vouchers at thirty-two dollars online by 11:59 p.m. on Tuesday, August 6, each valid any one day and exchanged for a wristband good from noon until 10:00 p.m., with wristbands during the fair at forty dollars. No 2025 or 2026 wristband figure was found fair-side. Facility rentals are year-round rental-layer money, never fair-week pricing: the 4-H Dorm at two hundred dollars per day plus a five hundred dollar refundable deposit, overnight at the same rate plus five dollars per person; Averill Arena and Grandstand at one thousand five hundred dollars per day or twenty percent of gross sales; Pavilion Arena riding at two hundred dollars for a half day and three hundred dollars for a full day. Vendor booth fees are unverified entire.
Camping, Honestly Stated
Public or exhibitor camping for the modern fair is unverified beyond one historic term and one directory count. The only fair-programme camping term is 2017: Lot D, RV parking and camping at ten dollars overnight, participants and exhibitors, permit only, never a public or modern rate. A directory layer lists thirty-seven RV spaces, with no rate. The History page’s RV rallys line and the 4-H Dorm overnight rental are not camping offers. Kilchis River and Trask River campgrounds, the Port of Tillamook Bay RV Park, and private Tillamook parks are separate places whose rates are never fair rates.
A Sample Day at the Fair
A Wednesday visit from the 2024 book’s shape starts at the 10:00 a.m. opening in the Exhibit Hall, moves to the livestock barns and Fair Acres in the afternoon, and reaches the races at 1:00 p.m. The Pig-N-Ford Races at 5:30 p.m. lead into the grandstand concert.
How Tillamook Compares With Other Oregon Fairs
Tillamook stands out in this queue for the completeness of its own paperwork: labelled ladders for 2024 and 2025 and special rates for 2026, with the one honest gap being the unlabelled 2026 general ladder. Its Pig-N-Ford Races and pari-mutuel race meet, with a six-figure purse in 2024, set it apart from rough-stock-centred fairs.
Checklist for the Visit
- Confirm the year’s span before travelling
- Read the gate ladder for the year you are attending
- Bring two cans of food for the Wednesday canned-food window
- Carry identification for the Thursday senior and military rates
- Budget parking separately from admission
- Treat grandstand concerts as included in admission
- Do not plan on fair-week camping from this record
Beyond the Fairgrounds
Beyond the fair, attractions must be kept in their own lanes. No other county town is the seat in any layer fetched. Garibaldi Days, the county’s June dairy-parade events, and the Oregon State Fair are separate events, and no neighbour’s dates, prices, or programme may be borrowed for this fair. The Creamery Association’s cheese-factory visitor attraction is a cheese-tourism operation in its own layers; the Association appears in fair layers only as a sponsor and an ice-cream booth operator benefiting 4-H, and its factory operation is never a fair fact. Bulls and Broncs and the Tillamook County Home and Garden Show are separate same-grounds events. A search result titled as a 2025 premium book whose file belongs to a different county fair, and an unattributed 2026 outdoor fairbook document, are quarantined entire.
Why the Fair Matters to Tillamook County
The fair gathers the county’s agricultural life in one place for four days a year, under the governance structure the fair itself publishes. The race meet ties the fair to the state’s racing structure, and the Pig-N-Ford Races tie it to a local story about a stray pig and a Model T.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Tillamook the county seat, or just the host town?
Tillamook is both: the Oregon Encyclopedia calls Tillamook the county seat of Tillamook County and its largest city, and the fair takes place at the fairgrounds in Tillamook itself.
Are the grandstand concerts included in admission?
Yes, in the fair’s own layers: the 2025 layers state that fair admission includes the nightly entertainment in the Grandstand Arena, and the 2024 book bills its grandstand concerts as free with fair admission. Resale figures are excluded entire.
Can visitors camp at the fairgrounds during fair week?
No modern fair-side camping term is published, so visitors should not plan on it from this record. The only fair-programme camping term is from 2017: Lot D, ten dollars overnight, participants and exhibitors, permit only. A directory count of thirty-seven RV spaces carries no rate.
What is the difference between the fair’s racing and the June rodeo?
The fair’s racing is a pari-mutuel race meet inside the fair, with the 2024 “John Harris” Race Meet at 1:00 p.m. and a purse of over one hundred thousand dollars. The June Tillamook County Rodeo is a separate event at the same grounds with its own dates.
What to Expect From the Next Tillamook County Oregon Fair Festival
How often is Tillamook County Oregon Fair Festival held?
The fair is annual, running four days, Wednesday through Saturday, in early to mid August, with each year’s exact span fenced to its own documented edition.
When is the next Tillamook County Oregon Fair Festival?
The most recent documented span is August 5 to 8, 2026, from 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. daily. A social-mirror planning line mentions August 11 to 14, 2027, but that is a planning form only.
Will the dates change?
The dates shift within early to mid August from year to year: August 7 to 10 in 2024, August 6 to 9 in 2025, and August 5 to 8 in 2026. The four-day pattern holds, but the exact window moves, so the coming year’s span should always be confirmed.
The Tillamook County Fair rewards a visitor who reads the year in front of them. Check the labelled gate ladder for that year and treat the grandstand as part of the gate. The grounds at 4603 East Third Street have held this gathering since the domed exhibit building rose in 1925.
