What to Expect
Expect livestock shows, FFA and 4-H competitions, carnival rides, live entertainment, local food vendors, and a fair serving the diverse communities of the Huntsville metro and the agricultural townships of Madison County.
Visitor Tips
Huntsville is the most technically sophisticated city in Alabama — the U.S. Space and Rocket Center (the largest space museum in the United States), the Botanical Garden, the historic Five Points district, and the Von Braun Center make Huntsville an outstanding fair weekend destination.
About Rocket City Fair
The Madison County Fair in Huntsville is an August fair in the Rocket City of north Alabama, celebrating the agricultural, aerospace, and Tennessee Valley heritage of a county that is home to NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and Redstone Arsenal — the most important center of American space and missile development in the country.
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