How to Bike to the State Fair in [2026]
Biking to the Great Minnesota Get-Together can be cheaper, quicker and less stressful than driving — if you can find the right route.
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How to Bike to the State Fair in 2025
Biking to the Great Minnesota Get-Together can be cheaper, quicker and less stressful than driving — if you can find the right route.
The State Fair and How We Got There
Buses, trains and bikes offered convenient alternatives to car travel for the nearly 2 million people who gathered at the Minnesota State Fair this year.
How to Bike to the State Fair
Why drive to the Great Minnesota Get-Together when the options to bus or bike are so much more fun and less stressful?
Everyone Walks at the State Fair
“People will walk a lot more than they say they will”—that’s the final observation in Bill Lindeke’s list from the State Fair. I was curious how much I do walk at the State Fair, so this year I took my GPS along. How much did I walk? About seven and a half miles. For most […]
A Day in the Life of a Car-Free State Fair Employee From the Suburbs
Follow the adventures of one determined State Fair beer pourer as he navigates multimodal options to get to work.
Seven Urbanism Lessons from the Minnesota State Fair
Much like Al’s Breakfast, the State Fair revels running against the conventional wisdom about what Minnesotans want in an urban experience. That’s one of the big reasons I enjoy going, and make sure to do so each year. There’s a lot that urban designers and decision makers can learn from the fairgrounds, and here are […]
My Annual Minnesota State Fair Experience
Tradition is a hallmark of the Great Minnesota Get-Together. For a Greater Minnesota transplant, it’s now more wine samples than Machinery Hill.
Minnesota State Fairgoers Enjoy a Pedestrian-Friendly Experience
Plenty of public bathrooms, trees to provide shade and shelter, no large parking lots to traverse: What could urban planners learn from the State Fair?
The Minnesota State Fair on Speed
No, this isn’t a video about rampant illicit drug use at the great Minnesota get together. It’s a timelapse video shot 6 years ago by Pioneer Press photographer Ben Garvin. I imagine many of the same things are taking place this year as I contemplate the even heavier than usual car traffic passing through my neighborhood […]