The Little Debbie Hamilton County Fair rolls into Sale Creek next week for a three-day run packed with rodeo action, lumberjack competitions, pig races and live music. Gates open Friday at 5 p.m. and close Sunday at 7 p.m. at McDonald Farm, a sprawling new setting for a fair that hasn’t been held in years.
According to Chattanooga Pulse, the fair returns to McDonald Farm at 16705 Coulterville Road, running Friday, Nov. 6 through Sunday, Nov. 8. It marks the first Hamilton County Fair in several years, after the event was paused for three years beginning in 2020 due to COVID and back-to-back severe weather seasons, the outlet reports. As 6AM City notes, the revived fair brings three days of entertainment to the county.
The new venue is no small plot of land. The fair’s official site describes the debut location as the breathtaking 2,100-acre McDonald Farm, per hamiltontnfair.com. Little Debbie is the fair’s title sponsor, the site notes, and service animals are welcome, though visitors are asked to leave pets at home.
Rodeo, Lumberjacks and Pig Races Headline the Action
Friday and Saturday bring the Kubota of Chattanooga Rodeo, with Saturday and Sunday reserved for lumberjack shows and pig races, the Pulse’s report states. The rodeo program includes bull riding, barrel racing, saddle bronc and bareback bronc riding, steer wrestling, team roping and mutton bustin’, according to the fair’s events page. The lumberjack competitions get just as physical, featuring log rolling, underhand chopping, springboard chopping, standing block chop, crosscut sawing, axe throwing and a dragster chainsaw competition, per the same page…