Thanks to conflicting travel plans and the wacky runup to the RNC, Roadguy may very well not get to the fair this year. (”The fair,” like “the lake,” may seem like a vague description to outsiders, but Minnesotans know what I’m talking about.) There’s a small chance I’ll have a fair-visiting opportunity this weekend (I would of course check out the new MnDOT display), so my question for you is: if you go to the fair, how do you get there?

Eons ago, the first time I drove to the fair, I paid 10 bucks to park on somebody’s lawn. Then for many years, I was a huge fan of the park-and-ride lots at the U — free parking and a free shuttle bus ride down the transitway. (Now a football stadium is rising where I used to park.) Two years ago, I hit up a colleague who lives near the fair and parked in his driveway for free — lots of his friends did the same thing, so we all left our keys on a table and moved each other’s cars as necessary.

If you’re a fair fan who’s already been or is planning to go, please share your preferred route and mode below.

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