State Fair attendance sets new record, tops 1M mark for 6th consecutive year

WEST ALLIS -- If it felt very busy when you visited the Wisconsin State Fair this year, you were not imagining things. Fair officials announced on Tuesday, Aug. 14 that the fair saw record attendance in 2018 -- with 1,037,982 passing through the turnstiles from Aug. 2-12. Fair attendance has topped the one million mark six years in a row now.

Here are some other interesting numbers crunched by the fair folk:

Wisconsin State Fair cream puffs