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Minnesota State Fair in Falcon Heights
The Minnesota State Fair, known by its slogan The Great Minnesota Get-Together, is a twelve-day fair held from late August through Labor Day in Falcon Heights, Minnesota, and is the largest state fair in the country by average daily attendance. Known by its slogan The Great Minnesota Get-Together, it ranks second nationally in total attendance behind only the longer-running State Fair of Texas and was voted best state fair by USA Today readers in 2015 and 2025.
The Minnesota State Fair has built its identity around a slogan, The Great Minnesota Get-Together, that captures something specific about how the event functions within the state: less a simple entertainment venue than an annual civic ritual where residents from across Minnesota's rural and urban communities converge in one place.