Spencer Fair ran September 4 to 7, 2026, from Friday through Labor Day Monday, in Spencer, Worcester County, and has ended for the year. The prices below are from the 2026 ticket price block on spencerfair.org, read on September 6 and October 9, 2026. Adult admission was $18, seniors (62 and older) and military paid $12, children aged 7 to 12 paid $12, and children under 7 got in free. A weekend pass was $45, and group-home visitors with group identification paid $7 each. Parking was free every day. Two demolition derbies and a midway on all four days were confirmed for 2026.
Admission and advance tickets
Advance tickets were $15, against $18 at the gate. The fair's price block gave the advance cutoff as the end of business on Wednesday, August 27, but August 27, 2026 was a Thursday, so that wording may have been carried over from an earlier year. The page did not say what the $45 weekend pass covered, so this guide does not compare it with the single-ticket prices.
Location and parking
The fairgrounds are at 48 Smithville Rd in Spencer. Parking was free on every day, so the gate price was the whole cost of getting in.
Program
The two derbies and the four-day midway were confirmed. Ox draws, agricultural competitions and carnival rides come from the fair's listing and were not confirmed against spencerfair.org.
How Spencer compared on Labor Day weekend and after
Spencer was the most expensive of the three fairs listed for September 4 to 7. Blandford Fair in the Hampden County hill towns charged $12 for adults, and Three County Fair in Northampton was listed at $12 (its 2026 dates were not confirmed). Two more fairs followed within a week: Franklin County Fair in Greenfield on September 10 to 13 at $15, and Sterling Fair on September 11 to 13, which was free. The Big E opened September 18.
Gate rules
One local write-up, not spencerfair.org, described gate policies on pets, coolers, outside alcohol and bag checks.
Founding year
Spencer Fair is described as running since 1888, a year that has not been confirmed against a primary source. Other write-ups give different years.
Not confirmed for 2026
Daily gate opening and closing hours (the fair's own pages were not consistent), attendance, which organization runs the fair year to year (the Spencer Agricultural Society is named as organizer), and the full lineup of competitions, entertainment and vendors beyond the derbies and midway.
