Look like fun? Last chance

Today is your last chance to enjoy the Minnesota State Fair. If you're a kid, it'll be an especially sweet experience, and not just because it's the last day before school starts for most kids. Children ages 5 to 12 will be admitted for just $5. (Kids under 5 will get in for free, as always.)

Fair video

State Fair super fans Gary Miller and Wendy Jones love the fair so much they got married there. Come join them on a tour of the great Minnesota get-together.

Staying cool, calm, happy at State Fair

Where can you go to cool off and work up a second wind at the State Fair? Here are 10 suggestions.

Photo right: Christmas in August

Aug. 26, 1947: Aerialist dies in fall at fair

More than 18,000 spectators at the grandstand were on the edge of their seats. High above the turf, Lloyd Rellim rode a bicycle back and forth across a narrow bar at one end of a 30-foot-long metal frame. Another performer twirled on rings and a trapeze bar at the other. And then ...

Photo left: A daring act

Martha Olson: The cookie queen

Martha Olson

For the past 30 years, State Fair fans have known Sweet Martha best for her name on all those buckets of chocolate chip cookies fresh from the oven.

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Find details of express bus service, park-and-ride locations, admission fees and hours of the Minnesota State Fair.

Find your food
See the new offerings at this year's fair (walking tacos and pickle pops are two) and see Star Tribune food critic Rick Nelson's recommendations

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