As vendors and exhibitors spent Tuesday cleaning and packing up until next year, Minnesota State Fair officials reported that 1,940,869 people visited the fair during its 12-day run.

The final day Monday saw 150,442 people pass through the gates in Falcon Heights.

For the full 12-day run of the fair, this year’s Great Minnesota Get-Together saw the greatest fair attendance since before the pandemic, beating the previous post-pandemic mark of 1,925,904 set last year.

But this year’s fair fell short of the milestone of 2 million visitors. It also fell short of the overall fair attendance record of 2,126,551 people, set in 2019.

The fair attendance this year didn’t reach many new heights — just one daily record, on the first Monday, compared to five daily records in 2024. But it also didn

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