About McCurtain County Free Fair

The McCurtain County Free Fair in Idabel is an August fair in the piney woods of far southeast Oklahoma, celebrating the timber, cattle, and Choctaw Nation heritage of Oklahoma's southernmost and most heavily forested county — a region where the pine forests and bayou landscape more closely resemble East Texas or Louisiana than the Oklahoma most visitors imagine.

What to Expect

Expect livestock shows, FFA and 4-H competitions, local food vendors, and a community fair in the bottomland hardwood and loblolly pine forest country of the Red River watershed.

Visitor Tips

Idabel is the McCurtain County seat in the Ouachita National Forest country — Beavers Bend State Park (one of Oklahoma's finest outdoor destinations, with fly fishing on the Mountain Fork River), the Mountain Fork River trout fishery, and the spectacular fall foliage make McCurtain County an outstanding destination in an unexpected corner of Oklahoma.

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