Admission: 11am - 9pm
Buildings: 11am - 10pm
Rides: 12pm - 11pm
🕑 All Day
Sheep Show
Swine, Sheep & Goat Barn
🕑 All Day
Beef Cattle Show
Nutt Cattle Arena
🕑 All Day
Mike P. Gibson, Gibson Works
Cantey Building
🕑 12:00pm
American Tribute
Main Flag PoleÂ
🕑 1:00pm
Swifty Swine Racing & Swimming Pigs
Performing near Abernathy Arena
🕑 1:30pm
The String Showdown
Performing at the Netterfield Stage
🕑 1:30pm
Dennis Lee
Performing at the Academic Avenue Stage
🕑 2:00pm
CIRCUS at the Fair
Beside the Ellison Building near the South Gate Entrance
🕑 2:30pm
Swifty Swine Racing & Swimming Pigs
Performing near Abernathy Arena
🕑 3:00pm
Dennis Lee
Performing at the Academic Avenue Stage
🕑 4:00pm
The String Showdown
Performing at the Netterfield Stage
🕑 4:00pm
Swifty Swine Racing & Swimming Pigs
Performing near Abernathy Arena
🕑 4:00pm
🕑 4:30pm
CIRCUS at the Fair
Beside the Ellison Building near the South Gate Entrance
🕑 5:00pm
Dennis Lee
Performing at the Academic Avenue Stage
🕑 5:30pm
Swifty Swine Racing & Swimming Pigs
Performing near Abernathy Arena
🕑 6:30pm
🕑 7:00pm
Faith Schueler
Performing at the Pepsi Place Stage
🕑 7:00pm
The String Showdown
Performing at the Netterfield Stage
🕑 7:00pm
Swifty Swine Racing & Swimming Pigs
Performing near Abernathy Arena
🕑 7:30pm
CIRCUS at the Fair
Beside the Ellison Building near the South Gate Entrance
🕑 8:30pm
Today’s Highlights
Exceptional Citizens Day
All Day
Free admission for persons with life-long, developmental or physical disabilities (and one companion)
Military Appreciation Day
All Day
Active and retired military and their dependents (with proper military identification cards) will be admitted FREE. Dependent children 14 years old and older must present ID
Sensory-Friendly Morning
10am – 12pm
From 10 a.m.- noon, children and adults with autism or sensory processing disorders and one companion are welcome to enter the fairgrounds, as our guest, up to one hour before the gates officially open and participate in Sensory-Friendly Morning
Lunch Bunch
12pm – 2pm
Join the lunch bunch! From Monday-Friday, between noon and 2 p.m., pop in and out of the S.C. State Fair for lunch with a special lunch bunch ticket, available from noon-2 p.m. each weekday (except Wednesday, Oct. 11). Pay your entry fee and receive a refundable $20 ticket. Return to the ticket booth with the ticket by 2 p.m. to get your money back
