With 132,553 people heading out to the Minnesota State Fair on Tuesday, Aug. 26, the 2025 installment continues to outpace attendance in each year since the pandemic.

There have been 951,750 attendees through the first six days of its 12-day run. That's 25,000 more admissions than the fair had in 2023 and almost 120,000 more than it had last year.

Tuesday's attendance wasn't far off the daily record of 136,987, set in 2019.

With nearly a million visitors in the first half of its 2025 run, the fair appears to be on pace to pass two million admissions for the first time since 2019.

Typically, the fair's busiest days come on the Friday through Sunday before Labor Day. In 2024, that three-day run saw 225,521 attendees on Friday, 207,078 on Saturday, and 256,015 on Sunday. Two of those were

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