Wyoming County Pennsylvania Fair Festival
Six days straddling Labor Day belong, in Wyoming County, Pennsylvania, to the Wyoming County Fair at Meshoppen: a fair built from the barn outward, around twenty-three judged departments of livestock and home exhibits, 4-H showing, and main-stage concerts. The fair’s own homepage fixes the current edition at Wednesday, September 2 through Monday, September 7, 2026 — the Monday is Labor Day — at 9141 US 6 in Meshoppen, Mile Marker 300. Two honest limits frame what follows: the fair’s early history survives only in a single piece of 2012 reportage, not in any verified fair-side statement, and no fair-side layer publishes visitor parking prices.
About the Fair
The Wyoming County Fair is the annual Labor Day-week agricultural fair of Wyoming County, Pennsylvania, held at Meshoppen. Across its own current documents — homepage, premium book, entry forms, camper form and vendor rules — the operative name is simply Wyoming County Fair, and its entry forms direct that checks be made payable to that name. A fuller form, Wyoming County Fair, Inc., appears in its own business-listing layer, unmerged. A third form, Wyoming County Community Fair, circulates in guide and venue listing layers only, never as the fair’s own name.
Running the show ring is not the same as running the fair. Penn State Extension and Wyoming County 4-H administer the 4-H departments exhibited at the fair, yet neither is the organiser on this record. Marjorie Singer appears on the camper form as the care-of name for mailed forms, a person in that form only; the word Kiwanis attaches only inside the 2012 reportage account below. The grounds, as the premium book names their parts, hold the Veterans’ Memorial Pavilion, the Dairy, Rabbit, Poultry and Livestock barns, a blacksmith shop and Antique barns, a West parking lot and a camper hook-ups area — space names only.
Quick Facts
| Item | Detail |
| Event | Wyoming County Fair, Meshoppen, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania |
| Host community | Meshoppen |
| County seat | Tunkhannock, per the Pennsylvania State Archives courthouse table; the seat does not host |
| Grounds | 9141 US 6, Meshoppen, Pennsylvania 18630, at Mile Marker 300 |
| Organiser | Wyoming County Fair; Wyoming County Fair, Inc. in its own business-listing layer |
| Season | Late August into Labor Day, six days |
| Documented 2026 dates | Wednesday, September 2 through Monday, September 7, 2026 |
| Admission, 2026 | Twenty dollars presale, thirty dollars day-of, five-dollar Shopper tickets, per the fair’s homepage |
| Parking | No fair-side visitor parking price published; unverified |
| Camping | Exhibitor-only, thirty dollars for the week in the fair’s own camper form, year unstated; public camping unverified |
A History the Fair Itself Has Not Published
Unusually for a fair of this size, no founding story can be quoted from the fair’s own pages. Its website carries a History page, but that page’s text was not retrieved for this article, so no founding year is presented here as the fair’s own statement.
What exists instead is one outside account. A corporate blog’s report of a Labor Day-weekend visit, published in 2012, describes the Kiwanis Wyoming County Fair as first held in 1857, says its run ended in 1944 because of World War II, and says the fair was reopened in 1985. That account carries a four-decade gap inside itself, and a gap stated by the only source cannot be smoothed into continuity: no continuous run from 1857 is claimed, and no edition number is billed fair-side to count backwards from. Wyoming County’s creation on April 4, 1842, carved from Luzerne County, dates the county, not the fair.
For a useful comparison, see the Westmoreland County Pennsylvania Westmoreland Fair Festival for another county festival.
What to Expect
Twenty-Three Departments in the Premium Book
The fair’s centre of gravity is its premium book: twenty-three judged departments running from Department 1, Horses, through Department 23, Apiary Products. Between those poles sit Dairy, Sheep and Goats, Poultry, Pigeons and Waterfowl, Rabbits, the Department 10 programme for 4-H, Youth Exhibits, Vegetables, Fruits, Home and Dairy Products, Floral entries, Needlecraft, Art, Photography and Crafts, Group Exhibits, Homemade Wine and Contests. The book’s mechanics show an exhibitor’s fair: non-animal entries come in on the Monday before opening, and premiums pay at one hundred percent only where six or more animals stand in a breed or section, at fifty percent below that number, Department 1 exempt — book arrangements, not a dated bill.
The 2026 Bill as a Tourism Listing Gives It
For the September 2 through 7, 2026 edition, the state tourism listing names live music, horse pulls, rabbit shows, a 5K race, a Fair Queen contest and a headline concert by Chris Janson. That billing stands in the tourism layer — the Janson name appears in resale layers too — but no fair-side schedule page for 2026 was fetched, so beyond the homepage ticket ladder the detailed 2026 programme is unverified fair-side.
Earlier Bills, Each in Its Own Layer
The 2025 edition, listed as running Wednesday, August 27 through Monday, September 1 of that year, was characterised in its event-listing layer by rides, 4-H shows and exhibits, thrill shows and grounds acts — listing copy, in its layer only. A headline performance by Kameron Marlowe dated August 30, 2025, surfaces only in ticket-resale layers, and resale material is not verification; it stands here as an unverified report. The 2024 listing layer is fuller: rides and games by Jim Houghton Enterprises, Ian Munsick headlining on Saturday, August 31, and a beer garden for guests aged twenty-one and over requiring a ticket for concert guests. None of those names or arrangements carries into another year, and its note that major concerts required a concert ticket in addition to a fair entry ticket belongs to that layer alone.
Planning Your Visit
Reaching the Grounds on Route 6
Every fair document gives the same grounds address — 9141 US 6, Meshoppen, Pennsylvania 18630, the homepage adding Mile Marker 300. One variant sits inside the fair’s own paperwork: the vendor rules print the grounds as 9141 SR 6, Meshoppen, with a ZIP code ending in 03 rather than 30, for insurance certificates; that form belongs to that document alone and never displaces the record’s address. Meshoppen is not the county seat: Tunkhannock holds that role, verified from the State Archives courthouse table, and no fair layer places the fair there. No township for the grounds is named in any layer, so none is claimed.
Admission and the Money Around It
The fair’s own homepage publishes the 2026 ladder: tickets on sale now at twenty dollars presale and thirty dollars day-of, with Shopper tickets at five dollars — its Shopper inclusions undefined. The only other gate figures show why care is needed: a 2024 event-listing layer offered presale at eight dollars and gate tickets at ten dollars under a one-price-pays-all line, and the gap between that listing and the 2026 ladder is why one year’s gate never fills another’s. For 2025 no fair-side gate figure was published, so that gate is unverified; a business-listing summary repeating the eight and ten-dollar figures is recycling 2024, not evidence.
Exhibitor and vendor money in the fair’s documents is never admission: the Department 10 swine form charges two dollars per animal and the 4-H poultry form one dollar per entry, both with August 8 deadlines, while the 2027 vendor rules set a fifty-dollar non-refundable deposit, a fifty-dollar returned-check fee, and extra vendor passes at eight dollars each through Thursday, September 2, 2027, and ten dollars thereafter.
Parking Without a Published Price
No fair-side layer fetched publishes a visitor parking price, so parking money here is unverified entire. A 2024 listing layer carried a free-parking line; it belongs to that listing and edition, and is not carried into 2025 or 2026. The premium book’s rules bind exhibitors only: vehicles out of the barn area at least thirty minutes before the gates open, parking directed behind the camper hook-ups or into the West parking lot, none beside the barns once the fair is open, and towing at the owner’s expense after a thirty-minute warning.
Camping Reserved for Exhibitors
Camping exists on paper: the fair’s own Agribusiness Camper Reservation Form reserves the camping area for exhibitors only, at thirty dollars for the entire week. Campers may not enter until the Sunday prior to the fair, after three in the afternoon, and must be in place by Tuesday at six in the evening; spots are first come, first served; permits are collected at the office and displayed at all times; air conditioners are barred unless the camper runs its own generator, and generators must be shut off between ten at night and seven in the morning; the fair accepts no liability for injury or property damage. The form’s year is nowhere stated, so the rate stands as the documented form rate only — and for non-exhibitors no public camping term exists in the record at all.
A Shape for a Fair Day
A first visit falls naturally into the fair’s own order of business. Begin in the barns, when the Dairy, Rabbit, Poultry and Livestock barns hold the animals the twenty-three departments are built around, then work through the judged exhibits — vegetables, fruits, needlecraft, floral entries and apiary products among them. Give the middle of the day to the Veterans’ Memorial Pavilion and the blacksmith shop and Antique barns, and check which of the current year’s listed families — horse pulls, rabbit shows, the Fair Queen contest — is actually scheduled before counting on it. Keep the evening for the main stage. Exhibitors run to a different clock, and their deadlines explain the week’s shape.
The Same Name, Three Other Places
Wyoming is a name that travels, and this fair’s record is fenced against its doubles. The most dangerous is the Wyoming County Fair of New York, held at Pike in that state’s Wyoming County: it shares nothing with Meshoppen but the county name, its admission is free where this fair charges, its money runs through parking where this fair publishes no parking price at all, and its programme, from its firemen’s parade onward, has no place here. The Wyoming State Fair at Douglas belongs to the state of Wyoming. Closer to home, an 1893 history of Luzerne County records that county’s agricultural society holding fairs at the village of Wyoming; those society fairs remain Luzerne’s record, not this fair’s ancestry. Prices and addresses surfacing through ticket-resale pages — including a Meshoppen street address no fair document uses — are excluded from this record entire.
Before You Leave Home
- Confirm the current year’s dates against the fair’s own homepage, since spans shift each year
- Buy presale if the current ladder still rewards it, and never price a trip from the 2024 listing’s figures
- Allow that headline concerts may need a separate ticket on top of fair entry, as the 2024 listing described
- Make no parking budget from any published figure, because the fair publishes none
- Book ordinary lodging or a commercial campground if you are not exhibiting; fair camping is exhibitors only
- If you exhibit, work from the department forms, where fees and August 8 deadlines live
Beyond the Fairgrounds
The geography worth grasping is a short one. The fair sits along US 6 at Meshoppen, and the county’s civic centre sits elsewhere: Tunkhannock, the county seat since the county’s creation in 1842, is a separate community that no fair document confuses with the fairgrounds. That split — seat in one town, fair in another — is the county’s layout as this record presents it. The research behind this article documents the fair, not a visitor’s guide to Meshoppen’s streets, and invents no attractions to fill the space.
Why the Meshoppen Fair Matters
The fair’s significance is written in its paperwork rather than its mythology. A premium book of twenty-three departments, exhibitor rules framed under Pennsylvania’s animal sanitation exhibition law, a camper form that runs a small temporary village for the people who show the animals, and vendor rules already published for the cycle after next: together they describe a working agricultural fair whose centre is the exhibitor, not the midway. Until its own History page is on the record, the fair stands on what can be proven: a current, recurring, six-day fair at Meshoppen.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much are tickets to the Wyoming County Fair?
For 2026, the fair’s homepage lists twenty dollars presale, thirty dollars day-of, and five-dollar Shopper tickets, their inclusions undefined. No fair-side figure exists for 2025, and the 2024 listing layer’s eight-dollar presale and ten-dollar gate belong to that edition only.
Is this the fair with free admission in Wyoming County?
No — free admission belongs to the Wyoming County Fair at Pike, New York, a different fair in a different state’s county of the same name. Meshoppen charges on its own ladder: twenty dollars presale, thirty dollars day-of for 2026.
Can the public camp at the fairgrounds?
Not on this record: the fair’s own camper form reserves camping for exhibitors only, at thirty dollars for the week in a form whose year is unstated, and no public camping term appears in any fair document.
When was the Wyoming County Fair founded?
No founding year can be stated as the fair’s own claim, because no founding statement from the fair itself was verified. A 2012 reportage account says the fair was first held in 1857, ended in 1944 because of World War II and reopened in 1985 — a report to be weighed, gap included, not a settled history.
What to Expect From the Next Wyoming County Pennsylvania Fair Festival
How often is Wyoming County Pennsylvania Fair Festival held?
The fair is annual, six days in the late-August-to-Labor-Day season: September 2 through 7 in 2026 on the fair’s own homepage; August 27 through September 1 in 2025 and August 28 through September 2 in 2024 in listing layers.
When is the next Wyoming County Pennsylvania Fair Festival?
The fair’s own vendor rules already look to the 2027 cycle — insurance through September 6, 2027, a pass-price change after Thursday, September 2, 2027 — but publish no span of fair days, and no 2027 dates are asserted here. Expect the established pattern, six days across the Labor Day weekend at Meshoppen, and confirm the actual dates when the fair publishes them.
Will the dates change?
They move a little every year while staying anchored to the same holiday: the documented spans begin on August 28 in 2024, August 27 in 2025 and September 2 in 2026, each closing on or beside Labor Day — so work from the current year’s span, not memory.
The Wyoming County Fair at Meshoppen asks to be taken on its own evidence: a six-day, exhibitor-centred fair on Route 6, with a published gate, an unpublished parking price, camping kept for the people who bring the animals, and a past that one old report sketches but the fair has yet to publish. Go for the barns and the book of departments, and plan your money from the current year’s own figures.
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