On the Midway
The fair features livestock shows, 4-H and FFA competitions, carnival rides, local food vendors featuring Lancaster County specialties, and a fair in the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch country.
What to Know
The Ephrata Fair is a five-day September fair in the northern Lancaster County farmland, celebrating the agricultural and Pennsylvania German heritage of a community famous for its 18th-century Ephrata Cloister religious community.
Before You Go
Ephrata is home to the Ephrata Cloister, one of America's earliest communal religious societies — the Green Dragon Farmers Market (one of Pennsylvania's largest) and the surrounding Lancaster County farmland are also nearby.
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