Photos: Opening of the 2024 Alaska State Fair season

People stroll through the Alaska State Fair in Palmer on opening day, Friday, August 16, 2024. (Loren Holmes / ADN)

The Alaska State Fair opened in Palmer on Friday, August 16.

The fair features large and plentiful vegetables, farm animals, rides, vendors, concerts – and of course food. The fair runs until Monday, September 2nd. It is closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

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People ride the Cliffhanger on the first day of the Alaska State Fair in Palmer on August 16, 2024. (Loren Holmes / ADN)

People stroll through the Alaska State Fair on opening day, Friday, August 16, 2024. (Loren Holmes / ADN)

Competitors will compete in the Lumberjack Show climbing competition on Friday, August 16, 2024. Pioneer Peak is behind them. (Loren Holmes / ADN)

Nancy Durand shows quilts on the first day of the Alaska State Fair on Friday, August 16, 2024. (Loren Holmes / ADN)

Sergeant First Class Derrick Clemons does push-ups after losing a game of cornhole at the Alaska State Fair on Friday, Aug. 16. Clemons and others were manning a recruiting booth at the fair. (Loren Holmes/ADN)

Evelyn Chinn, 8, pets puppies from Iditarod musher Matt Failor’s team on the first day of the Alaska State Fair on Friday, Aug. 16, 2024. Chinn, of Washington state, was at the fair with her grandfather, a former Alaska resident. (Loren Holmes / ADN)

Volunteers spin yarn in the Valley Fiber Arts Guild room at the Alaska State Fair on Friday, August 16, 2024. (Loren Holmes / ADN)

A gerbil decides which hole to crawl into during the “Rat Race,” a game of chance hosted by the Palmer Elks Lodge on Friday, August 16, 2024. The gerbil chose the purple hole. (Loren Holmes / ADN)

People ride a carousel at the Alaska State Fair on August 16, 2024. (Loren Holmes / ADN)

Dave Seifert makes a wooden bowl on the first day of the Alaska State Fair in Palmer on August 16, 2024. (Loren Holmes / ADN)

Evelyn Chinn, 8, pets dogs from Iditarod musher Matt Failor’s team on Friday, August 16, 2024. Behind her is Failor’s handler Jaren Ulrich. (Loren Holmes / ADN)

Hermione, a two-year-old Boer goat, attracts some attention on the first day of the Alaska State Fair in Palmer on Friday, August 16, 2024. (Loren Holmes / ADN)

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