By: Zach Lewis<\/a><\/p>\nSYRACUSE, N.Y. — The Great New York State Fair will spotlight the State\u2019s diverse cultures, industries and traditions with a lineup of Special Days during its run.<\/p>\n
The Fair will take place from Aug. 26 through Sept. 7 and feature themed celebrations.<\/p>\n
Special Days at the 2026 New York State Fair are:<\/p>\n
Wednesday, Aug. 26: Opening Day<\/p>\n
Thursday, Aug. 27: Grape Day, Agriculture Career Day, and Student Youth Day<\/p>\n
Friday, Aug. 28: LGBTQ+ Pride Day and New Americans Day<\/p>\n
Monday, Aug. 31: Law Enforcement Day, State Parks Day, and Maple Day<\/p>\n
Tuesday, Sept. 1: Fire, Rescue and EMS Day, Beef Day, and Tasty Tuesday<\/p>\n
Wednesday, Sept. 2: Women\u2019s Day and Sensory Friendly Day<\/p>\n
Thursday, Sept. 3: Armed Forces Day, Dairy Day, and Stomp Out Stigma<\/p>\n
Friday, Sept. 4: Native Americans Day<\/p>\n
Saturday, Sept. 5: Rhythm & Resources Job Fair<\/p>\n
Monday, Sept. 7: Labor Day<\/p>\n
Click here for more about the Special Days<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WKTV File By: Zach Lewis SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The Great New York State Fair will spotlight the State\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[120273,120280,545,120272,120276,120274,120278,120275,9,11,10,49,48507,51,50,4996,120279,120271,120277,115785,120281,4903],"class_list":["post-318946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-agriculture-career-day","tag-beef-day","tag-fire","tag-grape-day","tag-law-enforcement-day","tag-lgbtq-pride-day","tag-maple-day","tag-new-americans-day","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-fair","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-opening-day","tag-rescue-and-ems-day","tag-special-days","tag-state-park-day","tag-student-youth-day","tag-tasty-tuesday","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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