Brimfield's three 2026 shows ran May 12 to 17, July 14 to 19 and September 8 to 13, each a Tuesday through Sunday along Route 20 in Brimfield, Hampden County, and all three have ended. Brimfield Antique Flea Market was a coordinated week built from more than twenty independently operated show fields. Most were free to enter, outdoors and cash-based, and no printed program covered them all.
There was no single gate, address or price, and the answers to what it cost and where to go differed from field to field.
Dates
The three show weeks matched across brimfieldantiquefleamarket.com, brimfieldantiqueweek.com, the Journal of Antiques' show guide and brimfieldexchange.com's field-by-field schedules. WBUR published a piece on the market on July 10, 2026, four days before the July week opened, which lined up with those dates.
Fields staggered their openings: some opened Tuesday, some Wednesday, and a few not until the weekend.
Twenty-plus fields, no single address
Brimfield is a stretch of Route 20 about the length of a town center, lined with more than twenty show fields. Each is owned by its own promoter, which set its own hours and gate policy. That is why the market's address appears as Route 20, Brimfield, MA 01010 in some sources and as a specific lot such as 35 Palmer Road in others. Both describe part of the same week. Two different main phone numbers also turn up, depending on the source.
There was no unified map of all the fields. Food and restrooms were likely organized field by field, so what one field offered might not carry over to the next.
History and attendance
Sources date the market's start to 1959 or to the mid-1960s. Seasonal attendance is cited anywhere from roughly 150,000 to a quarter million visitors a year. No organizer publishes a combined count across the fields, so treat any attendance number as a rough sense of scale.
Admission and parking
Most fields were free to walk into. A handful of the larger fields charged $5 to $10, typically only on opening day during the first hours, and entry was free later that day or on a later day of the week.
Parking was where the cost showed up, and it was cash only: $5 to $20 per vehicle depending on the lot, with $10 to $15 typical. The market's own FAQ said $15 a day was the highest rate it had seen. Dealer's Choice ran a $5 lot Wednesday through Sunday, and a lot near the First Congregational Church was reported at $20. Vendor payment varied by dealer, though many took cards or checks with ID.
Conditions and hours
The fields were grass and dirt and turned to mud fast after rain.
Each field set its own opening day and hours, so one could be winding down for the afternoon while another two lots away was just getting busy.
Most fields were open, unshaded grass lots. On-site porters and couriers were available for a fee.
