Our favorite Instagram photos from this year's Minnesota State Fair

We asked our Instagram followers to show us their fave fair photos — and they delivered.

August 31, 2018 at 9:06PM

As fairgoers headed to the Great Minnesota Get-Together and braved heat, rain, crowds and decisions on which new foods to try, we asked them to tag us with their best photos — and hundreds of you did. (#thanks!)

From the lure of the lights to a visual diary of calories consumed, here are some of our favorite reader photos.


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Nicole Hvidsten

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Nicole Ploumen Hvidsten is the Minnesota Star Tribune's senior Taste editor. In past journalistic lives she was a reporter, copy editor and designer — sometimes all at once — and has yet to find a cookbook she doesn't like.

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