Saturday, July 4, 2026
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Two hundred and fifty vendors, three days, and every global food trend in one place at Del Mar Fairgrounds. FoodieLand is the nation's largest food festival — the kind of event where you spend four hours eating things you've never heard of and leave with business cards from vendors you'll follow for years. Artisan shops. Live music. Games. Buy tickets in advance. They sell out before the weekend arrives.
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.
The San Diego County Fair at Del Mar is the crown jewel of SoCal summers. Deep-fried everything, carnival rides, livestock shows, live concerts every night, and 150 acres of absolute chaos. Go at least once — preferably twice.
The final weekend of the San Diego County Fair at Del Mar. Last rides on the Ferris wheel, last funnel cake, last walk through the livestock hall you keep meaning to skip but never do. The last-weekend energy is different — it's the city saying goodbye to summer. Don't miss it.
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