The 2024 edition of the Panhandle-South Plains Fair returns this week with a few new rides, a new Horticulture Building and the return of some favorite food booths and pig races for the first time in nearly 20 years.
The fair opens Thursday with its traditional Buck-a-Ride preview night from 6 to 11 p.m., when rides are only $1 each, ahead of the fair’s full run Friday through Sept. 28 at the fairgrounds at Broadway and Avenue A.
On the agenda at the Lubbock fair
Jennifer Wallace, general manager for the Panhandle-South Plains Fair, said there will be about 40 booths run by non-profit food vendors, including familiar favorites like the Science Spectrum and the return of the Monterey Ambucs booth, along with area churches, band boosters and service organizations.
Fairgoers will see several improvements, including concrete work, filled-in potholes around the fairgrounds and new benches under the eight shaded covers that were added along the midway ahead of last year’s fair.