Southeastern Livestock Pavilion

Built in 1945 to house the popular Youth Fair, the Livestock Pavilion has become the city’s oldest venue. It still to this day is the premier venue for the Youth Fair but has evolved into so much more.
It’s a covered outdoor facility with 4,000+ retractable seats so it originally was purposed for agricultural events. These days you can attend a variety of events but the majority are still agricultural related. Some of the latter are the several rodeos, plant sales, 4 H club, horse sales and my fave the cattle roundup. The roundup actually starts off as a cattle drive with cowboys riding horseback through downtown Ocala all the way to the Livestock Pavilion. It’s quite a sight to behold as all of the streets are blocked off the cattle drive! Some of the non-​agricultural events are the Chili Cook Off, gun buy back and the annual Sportsman’s Feast. At the feast you can chow on all game, fowl and water critters you’d like.
The Pavilion as well as the surrounding rooms can be rented out and most of the local plant clubs hold their monthly meetings there.