State Fair Meadowlands

Meadowlands State Fair
Meadowlands State Fair
	State Fair Meadowlands, June 2007
Status	Active
Genre	State Fair
Begins	June
Ends	July
Frequency	Annual
Location(s)	Meadowlands Sports Complex in the parking lot of MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey
Inaugurated	1986; 38 years ago
Attendance	300,000 visitors per year
Website	State Fair Meadowlands

The State Fair Meadowlands (formerly the Meadowlands Fair) is a carnival held every summer at the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The fair is held in the parking lot that surrounds the MetLife Stadium and runs for two weeks in late June and early July. It attracts over 300,000 visitors per year,^[1] peaking at around 400,000 people in 2022.^[2]

Despite its name, it is not the official state fair of New Jersey, but instead, that honor belongs to the New Jersey State Fair, which purchased the state fair moniker in 1999. Instead, the name for the Meadowlands event is a title sponsorship; State Fair Superstore, a large seasonal merchandise seller and equipment rental company in Little Falls, New Jersey, operates the carnival.

List of attractions

Family/Kiddie Rides

Bumble Bee
Construction Zone
Merry-Go-Round
Double-Decker Carousel
Elephants
Family Swinger
Fire Chief
Frog Hopper
Speedway
Go Gator
Happy Swing
Jalopy Junction
Jet Ski/Waverunner
Jungle of Fun
Mini Bumper Boats
Mini Himalaya
Mini-Indy
Monkey Mayhem
Motorcycles
Quadrunners
Rainbow Rock
Red Baron
Rockin' Tug
Safari Train
Tomb of Doom
VW Cars
Wacky Worm

Thrill Rides

Banzai
Bumper Cars
Cliffhanger
Crazy Mouse
Crazy Outback
Cuckoo Fun House
Darton Slide
Disko
Enterprise
Fireball
Giant Wheel
Gravitron
Haunted House Dark Ride
Haunted Mansion Dark Ride
Heavy Haulin’ Inflate
Himalaya
Magic Maze
Mardi Gras Glasshouse
Musik Express
Raiders Funhouse
Ring of Fire
Rock & Roll Funhouse
Rock 'n Roll
Scooter
Sizzler
Sky Ride
Skyflyer
Space Roller
Spongebob Funhouse
Storybookland – Peter Pan's Palace
Super Slide
Tilt-A-Whirl
Tornado (Wisdom)
Wave Swinger
Zyklon

Other attractions

Other than the rides, there are free shows and events at the fair such as racing pigs, a petting zoo, a circus, a magic show, a hypnotist, concerts, etc. The fair also displays fireworks on select nights.

Incidents

At around 11:30 PM on June 22, 2017, which was the opening night for the 2017 season of the fair, gunshots were fired on the fairgrounds. Guests ran away from the area where the shots were being fired off. No one was shot or injured.^[3]