Altamont Fair

4 stars for the $ 17 entrance w/​unlimited rides & if you want to bungee, it’s $ 5! Food is cheaper than the OC fair. One must get the fried dough $ 4 – 5 (depending on toppings… tried the maple cream & cinnamon/sugar…confectioners sugar to be exact/​self sprinkled). Fried dough is different from funnel cake in case you never tried before. I’m thinking it may be what I believe to be a beignet consistency, but I don’t know for sure. Anyways, the fair was not overcrowded & had plenty of cool rides like the paragliding looking ride.

I went to the Altamont fair yesterday for my office picnic. I was pretty disappointed overall. We contracted with the fair for lunch and the food was at most warm and not flavorful. We were supposed to get bottle water as one of the beverage choice and the organizer had to argue with the staff and show our contract before they would supply it.
There was something called the Two by Two zoo which was just sad, lots of unhappy looking animals in cages in a custom tractor trailer.
The agricultural buildings were pretty cool, lots of kids showing their calves and goat.
The midway rides look like they’re about to fall apart. We were in line for the Ferris wheel and they could only load 16 people on a ride meant for 80. When one of the mechanics started banging on the ride with a sledge hammer to fix it we decided to get off and find something else to do.