![]() ![]() The main entrance to the fair from Snelling Avenue heads onto a road named Dan Patch Avenue for a pacer horse who won every race he ran in from 1900 to 1909 when he was retired. Butter makers started sculpting their products at the fair as far back as 1898, although the head-sculpting tradition did not begin until 1964. Part of the job involves posing for several hours in a walk-in, glass-walled refrigerator as a 90-pound (41 kg) block of butter is carved into a head with her likeness. Each year, a new Princess Kay of the Milky Way is selected to promote Minnesota's dairy industry. One of the first annual events to occur is the creation of a butter sculpture. Linda Christensen sculpting Princess Kay in 2010 The highest daily attendance in the history of the fair was 270,426 visitors on Saturday, September 1, 2018. Attendance in 2019 was a record 2,126,551 people. Around two million people attend the fair annually. The fair runs for twelve days from late August into early September, ending on Labor Day. The Minnesota State Fair was named the best state fair in the United States in 2015 by readers of USA Today. Residents of the state and region come to the fair to be entertained, exhibit their best livestock, show off their abilities in a variety of fields including art and cooking, learn about new products and services, and eat many different types of food-often on a stick. The state fairgrounds, adjacent the Saint Paul campus of the University of Minnesota, are in Falcon Heights, Minnesota, midway between the state's capital city of Saint Paul and the adjacent city of Roseville, near the Como Park and Saint Anthony Park neighborhoods of Saint Paul. Also known by its slogan, " The Great Minnesota Get-Together", it is the largest state fair in the United States by average daily attendance and the second-largest state fair in the United States by total attendance, trailing only the State Fair of Texas, which generally runs twice as long as the Minnesota State Fair. The Minnesota State Fair is the state fair of the U.S. ![]() The State Fair Gopher 'Fairchild' greets fairgoers. ![]()
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