School Groups
Bring Your Students to the Common Ground Fair!
Planning to bring a school group to the Fair?
School groups are welcome to attend the Common Ground Country Fair for free on Friday, September 19.
We’re already looking forward to the 2025 Fair! We’ll update this page soon with a registration link. But if you miss the registration, don’t worry. You can still check your school group in at the “School Gate” for free when you arrive on Friday morning. Check-in for school groups runs from 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. Tickets secure access to the Fair for the full day on Friday. All school groups are asked to enter at the School Gate, next to the North/Rose gate. Parking for school buses, vans, and cars is available in the North Lot.
After attending, group leads can submit for mileage reimbursement. Checks will be sent throughout the months of October and November. Mileage will be reimbursed at the following rates:
- Full-Size School Bus – $1/mile
- Full-Sized Van (12+ Passengers) – $.50/mile
- Homeschool Vehicle – $.35/mile ($100 maximum per group)
For information on what to expect at the Fair, including our many educational offerings, click here.
Questions? Email Madi Whaley at [email protected].
Pre-registration is closed, but school groups can register in person at the school gate on Friday morning.
- The CGCF does not permit pets on the fairgrounds or in the Fair parking areas.
- No smoking on the fairgrounds, except for the designated smoking area across from the Fair Office.
- Fair participants may not build fires without written permission from the CGCF office.
- The CGCF strictly enforces Maine laws prohibiting public drinking of alcohol and use of illegal drugs on the fairgrounds and in the Fair parking lots.
- Unauthorized possession of firearms, weapons or explosives is not allowed on the Fairgrounds.
- The CGCF prohibits from the fairgrounds audio and video devices audible to the general public unless they are part of a CGCF-approved demonstration.
- Fair participants may not feed livestock or other display animals unless they are tending their own animals.
- Fair participants may not litter.
- Fair participants may not bring skateboards, bicycles or other unauthorized wheeled vehicles on the fairgrounds.
- The CGCF office assumes no liability for damage to or loss of personal property.
