Complete chaos. No signs or designated lines for prepay tickets, so you have to wait in an extremely long line even though you prepaid online. Forty minutes in line so the kids aren't on the rides until forty five minutes after opening.Employees were not ready for opening time. Overpriced and not worth it even if it was free. No shade or benches for families in the fair area. Only tent was for the drinkers in the Biergarten. No new rides as advertised. There were less rides but the same old ones. You have to really search the website to find out anything. They don't mention the rides at all that will be there. Fair opens at 11 but rides start at 1pm yet you can't get on the rides until you wait in the long line to get in. Forty minutes wasted being herded through no designated lines. All of the ticket lines were nondescript until you got to the window which had a hand written "prepay" in marker which was small. The lines weren't moving at 1pm like they should've. Employees didn't have a scanner to scan tickets so they sent you elsewhere. Employees weren't at the rides to run the rides at opening time. There were also mechanical issues on rides and one was closed due to an issue. My children said they don't want to go to the fairgrounds ever again and I agree completely with them. There will continue to be a steep decline in fair goers due to the lack of organization, price and no one available to oversee that everything runs smoothly. The map that is handed out for the fairgrounds shows things not available like cooling stations. There are no cooling stations in the rides area. The cooling stations were on one side of the fairgrounds as per the map but did not exist. You'd think after a decade that the fair would be streamlined by now. read more