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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 01:32:00

Roy Rogers and Dale Evans played the brand-new coliseum in 1957, and a former governor once showed up with a 145-pound pumpkin - the New Mexico State Fair has been collecting stories since before New Mexico was a state. The fair's home, Expo New Mexico at 300 San Pedro Drive NE in Albuquerque, is a 236-acre state-owned events campus. The fair predates statehood: the first territorial fair ran on 3 October 1881 near the Rio Grande, arriving with the railroad; after decades downtown and a World W...