Iowa State Fair Sees Fourth Highest Attendance Ever

This yr’s 50+ new meals choices, and the standard array of everything-edible-on-a stick, together with stellar grandstand leisure, and even a record-breaking try on the largest cornhole recreation made the 2022 Iowa State Truthful one of the attended within the occasion’s historical past.

After saying a report for single-day attendance final Saturday, officers nonetheless had one other day to tally up an total complete. The ultimate quantity was staggering, at 1.1 million attendees, making it the fourth-most attended Iowa State Truthful ever, based on the Des Moines Register.

precise numbers, the Register states that 1,118,763 fairgoers got here by way of the gates this yr, an total complete that was 24,000 greater than in 2021. That Saturday attendance report was 128,298. The ultimate day of the occasion on Sunday noticed 101,846 guests.

There was a lot to like about this yr’s state honest, and in a single occasion we imply that actually, as an Iowa couple received engaged contained in the butter cow cooler on the fairgrounds final weekend. Followers of Alanis Morrisette did not let a very good soaking dampen their spirits at her present on August 15, and as beforehand talked about, over 700 folks joined collectively to set a Guinness World Report for the most important cornhole recreation.

The all-time attendance report was set in 2019, with 1,170,375.

Subsequent yr’s Iowa State Truthful is ready to run from Aug. 10-20, 2023. Under are the day by day attendance totals for 2022, in comparison with final yr’s quantity in parentheses:

• Thursday: 82,862 (77,700)
• Friday: 103,556 (104,177)
• Saturday: 113,012 (111,603)
• Sunday: 110,661 (107,410)
• Monday: 87,599 (95,621)
• Tuesday: 99,965 (90,688)
• Wednesday: 97,901 (91,510)
• Thursday: 99,715 (96,064)
• Friday: 93,348 (101,952)
• Saturday: 128,298 (117,764)
• Sunday: 101,846 (99,991)

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