​ADMISSION & FEES
Automobile Parking (per day)             $10.00            
Automobile Parking (per week)          $25.00
Camping Fee                                       $220.00 (includes one auto parking permit for fair week)
Walk In Gate (per day)                        $2.00
 
 
CAMPGROUND RULES AND REGULATIONS
If you wish to pre-register last year’s campsite, you must do so by or before March 1, 2024, regardless of the day it falls on.  Pre-registration fee is $50.00.
  1. Golf Carts, ATV’s and UTV’s are prohibited and will only be allowed by authorized personnel.
  2. No hooking into the electrical boxes until the Saturday before fair, July 20, 2024.  Campers found to be in violation of this rule will be charged a fee of $25 per day.
  3. Campers shall not engage in any violent, abusive, loud, boisterous, wanton, obscene, or otherwise disorderly conduct tending to create a breach of the peace, disturb or annoy others; or remove damage, or steal the property of another.
  4. Quiet hours are between 10:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m.  All non-campers must leave during quiet hours.
  5. All dogs must be on a leash and shall have a current dog license.  They are only allowed in the campgrounds and must stay off the midway and out of the barns.
  6. Absolutely no dumping of grey water or black water on the campgrounds.
  7. No person shall make solicitations in the campgrounds.
  8. Absolutely no fireworks in the campgrounds.
  9. All campers must pay the fee.  Site assignment and payment is required before parking.   Pre-registered campsites are not transferable.  A campsite may not be sublet.  The person whose name is on the campsite must be camped there during the week of the fair.
  10. The fire lane must always stay open.  All violators will be towed at the owner’s expense.
  11. The Clare County Fair Board, its agents and employees shall not be held liable in case of injury, loss, or damages.
  12. Any violation of these rules may result in eviction and/or legal action.

EXHIBITOR RULES AND REGULATIONS
All entries must be pre-entered by July 1, 2024.
 
  • Exhibitors are required to comply with all the statutory and regulatory provisions of the State of Michigan relating to animal health outlined in Public Act 66 of 1998 as amended.  Health requirements for livestock can be obtained by downloading them from the www.michigan.gov.mds-exhibitinfo  All animals must be vaccinated.
  • The management of the Clare County Agricultural Society reserves the right to reject any entry for just cause.
 
  • Premium and auction checks must be cashed within 90 days, or they will be considered a donation to the Clare County Fair.
  • The superintendent of each department has the authority to arrange and assign space to each exhibitor and to maintain order in the department.  All stalls, pens and other exhibits shall be kept clean.  Failure to do so may necessitate forfeiture of premiums.
 
  •  Any animal penned or stalled must be shown in at least one class.  Except for exhibition animals.
  • No animal may be unloaded into barn until they have been checked in.  All livestock and equine must enter through the gate on Townline Lake Rd and stop at the first gate to be checked in.
  •   All the animals must be fed and watered, stalls cleaned and feed pans removed by 9:00 a.m. and in the evening by 7:00 p.m.
 
  • All sheep, goats and swine must bear official USDA identification.  All cattle must bear an official RFID ear tag.
A current negative EIA (Coggins) is required for any equine species exhibited.  Any Exhibitor who is found to                 be in violation of these rules will bear the sole responsibility for any fines assessed by MDARD.    
  • Exhibits in all departments must remain in place until the designated release time.  Failure on the part of the exhibitors to conform with this ruling will result in revoking of premiums.
 
  •  Livestock will be released on the last Saturday of the fair at 8:00 p.m., unless they qualify for early pickup.
               Home Arts entries will be released Sunday following the fair between 9:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. 
  • Exhibit Building exhibits must be current work and have been done since last year’s fair unless otherwise noted.  All crops, vegetables, and flowers must have been raised by the exhibitor.
 
  • Complaints – All complaints shall be in writing and signed.  They must be filed with the fair office within 10 days of the close of the fair along with a $100.00 filing fee.  The fair board will review and investigate the complaint and issue a notice of findings and recommended action within 30 days.  If the complaint is found to be valid, the $100.00 filing fee will be refunded.  The exhibitor has 45 days from the date the protest was filed to file an appeal to the fair board’s decision with MDARD.
  • No drugs may be administered to animals without the consent of the Department Superintendent.  If anyone is caught giving drugs without consent, the resulting action will result in the exhibitor of the animal being banned from showing that animal species again at the Clare County Fair.
 
  • Drug Testing Policy:  The Clare County Fair reserves the right to conduct drug testing of livestock and equine whenever it is considered necessary.  The expense for the drug testing shall go to the person(s) owning the animals(s) if the test results show proof of the improper use of drugs.  If a protest is lodged and any drug testing shall be required, the expense for the drug test shall go to the person(s) lodging the protest if the test results do not show improper use of drugs.  Clare County Fair management shall have the right to eject and ban anyone committing an infraction of the rules.
 
  • Exhibitors assume all risk of exhibiting livestock and all other entries.  Every precaution will be taken to ensure the safety of exhibits, but in no case will the management be responsible for the loss or injury to an exhibit.    Each exhibitor will be responsible for any injury that may happen to any person by any animal owned or exhibited by them; and shall indemnify the Fair Association against all claims or demands of any kind or nature that may come from an injury occasioned by the animal owned by them or rise from the negligence of the person in charge of such animal.
  • Exhibitors are limited to one entry per class unless noted in department rules.
 
  • The costs of running and maintaining the fair fall to the Fair Board, but the risk of exhibiting animals falls to the exhibitors/owners.  In the case of a disease outbreak and/or quarantine, the premiums and/or sale proceeds may be held.  The exhibitors continue to be responsible for all costs incurred by their animals, such as veterinary care, medications, feed, bedding, labor, etc.  and the fair will have the right to withhold appropriate expenses from the premiums or sale proceeds.
  • 4 bicycles will be given away on Tuesday and Thursday of fair week.  Sign up will be from 2:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. on the grounds.  You must be present to win.  One ticket per person, ages 3 years old through 8th grade.
 
ADDITIONAL YOUTH EXHIBITOR RULES
 
  • Exhibitors must pay an open class fee if they wish to enter open classes, otherwise they are not required to pay an entry or stall fee.
 
  • Exhibitors must own and show their own animals.
 

  • If an exhibitor shows or sells any specie large or small animal in any other county fair, that exhibitor will not be allowed to show in youth classes or sell in the Clare County fair in the current or following year.  Excluding state and national shows.
 
 
  • Exhibitors must be residents of Clare County, enrolled in a Clare County school district, or be enrolled in a Clare County Youth Club or FFA.
 
  • Dogs are judged opening Sunday of fair and taken home after judging.  Vet certificates of inoculation for compete series rabies, distemper and parvo must be attached to small animal project sheets.
 
 
  • Cats are judged opening Thursday of fair and taken home after judging.  Vet certificates of rabies shot must be attached to small animal project sheet.
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