Whether you're chasing carnival rides, fair food, hot air balloons, or hometown traditions, here's your guide to fair and festival season across Northwest Arkansas in 2026.
📅 August 4-8
📍 Tontitown
A Northwest Arkansas tradition for more than a century, the Tontitown Grape Festival combines carnival rides, homemade spaghetti dinners, grape stomping, pageants, live music, and family fun.
Highlights
🎠 Carnival rides
🍝 Famous spaghetti dinners
🍇 Grape stomping
🎶 Live entertainment
👑 Pageants
📅 August 8 – August 15
📍 Berryville
A classic hometown fair featuring carnival rides, livestock competitions, exhibits, vendors, pageants, and community events.
Highlights
🎡 Carnival rides
🐮 Livestock shows
🎪 Community exhibits
🍿 Fair food
👨👩👧 Family fun
📅 August 25–29
📍 Fayetteville
One of Arkansas' oldest county fairs returns with carnival rides, livestock shows, agricultural exhibits, competitions, vendors, and all your favorite fair food.
Highlights
🎡 Midway carnival
🐷 Livestock shows
🌽 Agricultural exhibits
👑 Pageants
🍿 Fair food
📅 August 30 – September 6
📍 Huntsville
Celebrate Madison County's agricultural heritage with livestock competitions, rodeo events, pageants, exhibits, carnival rides, and family entertainment.
Highlights
🤠 Rodeo
🐂 Livestock shows
🎠 Carnival
🚜 Agricultural exhibits
🍔 Fair food
📅 September 25 – October 3
📍 Bentonville
One of the region's largest county fairs returns with nine days of carnival rides, livestock competitions, exhibits, vendors, entertainment, and classic fair eats.
Highlights
🎠 Carnival midway
🐮 4-H & FFA livestock shows
🏆 Competitions
🎶 Live entertainment
🍗 Fair favorites
📅 October 4–10
📍 Harrison
Wrap up fair season with one of the largest fairs in the region, featuring more than 50 carnival rides, livestock shows, agricultural exhibits, vendors, and family entertainment.
Highlights
🎢 50+ rides
🐂 Livestock competitions
🌾 Agricultural exhibits
🍿 Midway food
🎡 Family fun
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