It’s day 3 of the 2026 Wright County Fair!
4-Hers will be busy with a horse show, rabbit show, dairy show and sheep show. Classes will also be held in the one-room Historic Welker School.
Today (Friday) is Senior Citizen Day, all seniors 60 and older get free admission until 1 PM. All seniors are invited for a lunch in the Hoop Building followed by the program on the Barnyard Stage. This year’s Wright County Outstanding Seniors will be honored.
Other activities include a kids’ coin scramble, a drawing for 2 kids bikes on the midway for those who purchased armbands, and the KRWC Road Show at 5 PM.
“Mike Bustin” will be featured in the entertainment tent from 1:30 to 4:30, followed at 5 PM by the “Benjamin Raye Duo.” Tonight in the entertainment tent, it’s “Ragtown” from 8:30 to midnight. “Hick with a Pick” will be on the Barnyard Stage from 1:30 to 4:30 PM, and tonight in the grandstand it’s the first of two big weekend demolition derbies.
Other events run throughout the fair including the All-American Lumberjacks Show, the exotic animal zoo, the FFA Agricultural Learning Center, Rock-N-Circus, Paul Bunyan Live, Dangerous Feats of Comedy, and bingo.
The fair runs through Sunday on the fairgrounds in Howard Lake. More information is available at; www.wrightcountyfair.org, and the Wright County Fair Facebook page.
