About Avoyelles Parish Fair

The Avoyelles Parish Fair in Marksville celebrates a central Louisiana parish where the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe operates the Paragon Casino and where cotton, sweet potatoes, and soybean farming sustain communities along the Red River and Atchafalaya Basin.

What to Expect

Expect livestock shows, 4-H competitions, local food vendors with central Louisiana cooking, and a fair drawing from the Marksville community and surrounding parish farms.

Visitor Tips

Marksville State Historic Site preserves remarkable prehistoric Marksville culture earthworks. The Tunica-Biloxi Tribe Paragon Casino Resort is the major regional employer. The parish location between the Red River and the Atchafalaya provides rich agricultural bottomland.

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