To make up for 2020's cancellation, the fair management hosted its first-ever spring event entitled "Kickoff To Summer" featuring scaled-back concessions and attractions. There's not time." Instead, a food parade featuring several well-known State Fair vendors was held on several dates in October. Of the decision to cancel, Hammer stated "this is the time of year when things really need to take off, and we can't do it. Fair Manager, Jerry Hammer, had previously stated that the 2020 fair would not be a postponed or scaled-back event it would either run unchanged or be cancelled. The fair was most recently cancelled in 2020, this time due to the COVID-19 pandemic with the decision announced on May 22, 2020. The fair was not held in 1945, as fuel was in short supply due to World War II and it was again cancelled in 1946 because of an outbreak of polio. Scheduling issues between the fair and the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois caused the 1893 fair to be cancelled. In 18, the fair was not held because of the Civil War and the Dakota War of 1862. Since 1859, the fair has run annually except for six different years. By 2016, attendance neared 2 million and the record day was about a quarter-million people. In 1967, attendance was well over a million people and the record day that year was about 197,000 visitors. During his appearance at the Norse-American Centennial, President Calvin Coolidge gave recognition to the contributions of Scandinavian-Americans and noted Leif Erikson as the discoverer of America. In 1925, the Minnesota State Fair was the site of the Norse-American Centennial celebration. One of the most significant dates in the fair's history was September 2, 1901, when then- Vice President Theodore Roosevelt was visiting and first uttered the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick." Roosevelt became president just 12 days later, after William McKinley was assassinated. Camp Ramsey on Machinery Hill was the encampment site. All four were mustered and organized on the State Fair Grounds. They were initially numbered 1–4, but GAR veterans felt that they should continue the numbering from the Civil War and they became the 12th–15th Minnesota Infantry Regiments. The states were requested to provide volunteers and Minnesota quickly had enough to form four Regiments. In 1898 the Spanish American War broke out.
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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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