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Excellent family experience! Easy parking, nice variety of…read morefood and beverages and lots of audience engagement.

I hate the Cardinals and anything they touch or own. Still, this place is outstanding…read more Seriously, I'm an AL guy (Rangers) but sitting amongst Cardinals loyals was fun. The stadium is wonderful, as are its employees. Interestingly, the hometown fans were also pretty cool -- unlike their Yankees counterparts. ;-) The worst part of my experience here was getting into the car after the game and learning that my wife bought $75 in Cards gear. Go figure. Tickets here are reasonable. Concessions are likely to give you a virus. It's no different than most other venues. If you live nearby, this home team is a must. If you're traveling, make it a point to stop here. I wasn't quite turned into a Cardinals guy, but my experience here made it damn hard to hate them.

The fairgrounds are OK, but I don't think you should pay $15 per adult to get into the Ozark Empire…read morefair and then have to pay another $15 to get into the tractor pull. We only wanted to go to the tractor pull, so there should be a way for us to go to that and not pay for something that we didn't attend. We did not walk around the fair this year. It was just games, rides, and businesses trying to drum up business indoors. No animals this year? The BBQ at the pork place was awesome though, and a great deal at $12 for an entree and 2 sides and we got to sit in the air-conditioning and cool off. The tractor pull was fine but a little anti-climactic this year.

Maybe we hit it at the wrong time but having been in many fairgrounds and convention centers across…read morethe US I found this one kind of run-down, confusing, and badly laid out. We came to the Ozark fairground to see an RV show, first I arrived a bit misled by both the fairgrounds and the RV show operators. The pictures they used to promote the event came from some other fairground and did not match this location. We happened to attend an RV show in Louisville about a month ago, for $8 per person. It was a million square feet of RVs and boats in a beautiful facility with interactive displays, tons of food options, and food trucks in a well-lit, air-conditioned facility. I wasn't expecting this in Springfield however, for a $15 entry they should have been embarrassed. None of the food stands or restaurants on the grounds were operating, one bad hotdog stand inside was that did at least have good fries for $10. The building inside was confusing with smallish halls shooting off in odd directions, making it impossible to walk through to see all the booths and rigs in an orderly way. Most of the RVs that were supposed to be there on the outside of the main building were not present at all. When we asked we were told the venue told the vendors to remove them all from the ground, so we got to see half of what we expected and the small interior meant the vendors had to cut back on what they brought to the show. I'm told they had to move the show so maybe the original location was better suited for the event, I don't know. However, the grounds themselves needed to be in better repair, terrible parking on semi-dirt-covered pothole-infested asphalt. Part of the grounds were going through construction on open sewage which made being outside physically palatable in the air and on your tongue of sewage. Just putting it all together was a disappointment. Did we have fun? yes, we know how to enjoy wherever we are. but that does not excuse the poor facilities, overpriced entry for the quality of venue and size (5 dollars might have been ok), terrible grounds, everything is closed, and underserving the event.