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The Los Angeles County Fair runs May 7–31 at the Fairplex in Pomona — Thursdays through Sundays. Theme: 'Play Your Way.' Free concerts, carnival rides, competition livestock, deep-fried everything, and the legendary Rose Show. Forty-five minutes from Murrieta on a weeknight. If you grew up in SoCal, this is the smell of summer — funnel cake, sawdust, and the midway at dusk. Your kids will demand to go back. Tickets at lacountyfair.com.
It's the Del Mar Fair. You already know. Deep-fried everything, Belmont Park-level rides, livestock competitions that somehow slap, and at least one concert you'll pretend you didn't enjoy. Runs from June through July 4th weekend. Go early on a weekday if you don't want to spend 45 minutes looking for parking.
The theme is Once Upon a Fair. Four weeks at Del Mar Fairgrounds: 70-plus rides, grandstand concerts from Marshmello to Chicago to Nelly to Good Charlotte, fair food that has no business tasting this good, livestock shows, carnival games, and the kind of summer institution families return to every year without planning to. Runs Wednesday through Sunday, June 10 through July 5.
Brian Gaylord & the Country Star Band play live country-western music at Ponte Winery Friday July 17 from 6–9 PM, paired with a BBQ buffet — Santa Maria tri-tip, classic country sides — and Temecula Valley estate wines under the summer sky. The rolling hills of Ponte's vineyard at dusk with country music and a glass already poured. The July heat breaks by evening. There is nowhere else you'd rather be. Tickets at pontewinery.com.
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