Fair Highlights
Expect livestock shows, FFA and 4-H competitions, local food vendors, and a community fair in the forested Ouachita Mountain country of Montgomery County.
A Closer Look
The Montgomery County Fair, based in Mount Ida, is an October fair in the Ouachita Mountains of west-central Arkansas, celebrating the quartz crystal mining, timber, and Ouachita River heritage of a county famous as the "Quartz Crystal Capital of the World" — Montgomery County's quartz crystal deposits are among the most extensive and commercially significant in North America.
Planning Your Visit
Mount Ida is the Montgomery County seat and the quartz crystal capital — the quartz crystal mines (where visitors can dig their own crystals at several fee-dig sites), Lake Ouachita (one of the cleanest lakes in the South), and the surrounding Ouachita National Forest wilderness define this extraordinary west Arkansas destination.
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