{"id":17015,"date":"2025-08-08T00:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T06:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/photos-la-plata-county-fair-in-full-swing-thursday\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T22:03:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:03:39","slug":"photos-la-plata-county-fair-in-full-swing-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/photos-la-plata-county-fair-in-full-swing-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: La Plata County Fair in full swing Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"Turkeys
Turkeys in their pen on Thursday at the La Plata County Fair at the fairgrounds. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald)<\/span>Jerry McBride<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Judy
Judy Case, right, from Pueblo, judges quilts on Thursday at the La Plata County Fair in the Exhibit Hall at the fairgrounds. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald)<\/span>Jerry McBride<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Crochet
Crochet bike wheels on Thursday at the La Plata County Fair in the Exhibit Hall at the fairgrounds. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald)<\/span>Jerry McBride<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Goats
Goats get groomed on Thursday at the La Plata County Fair. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald)<\/span>Jerry McBride<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Mackenzie
Mackenzie Swanemyr, 16, blow-dries Pope an Angus steer that the she will show in the market steers class on Friday at the La Plata County Fair. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald)<\/span>Jerry McBride<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Cathy
Cathy Seibel, superintendent of preserved food and beer and wine, arranges dried herbs after judging on Thursday at the La Plata County Fair in the Exhibit Hall at the fairgrounds. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald)<\/span>Jerry McBride<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Crochet
Crochet bike wheels on Thursday at the La Plata County Fair in the Exhibit Hall at the fairgrounds. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald)<\/span>Jerry McBride<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Dandelion
Dandelion jelly is awarded the reserve champion ribbon on Thursday at the La Plata County Fair in the Exhibit Hall at the fairgrounds. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald)<\/span>Jerry McBride<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"A
A beaded cat with ribbons on Thursday at the La Plata County Fair in the Exhibit Hall at the fairgrounds. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald)<\/span>Jerry McBride<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Contestants
Contestants with their chickens on Thursday wait to go in front of a judge at the La Plata County Fair at the fairgrounds. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald)<\/span>Jerry McBride<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Everly
Everly Van Houten, 11, shows her barnyard mix chicken to judge Lacy Greer, from St. Johns, Ariz., while competing in the showmanship class on Thursday at the La Plata County Fair at the fairgrounds. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald)<\/span>Jerry McBride<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Jerrin
Jerrin Roukema is all smiles after her photo \u201cThe Buck Stops Here\u201d won a second place ribbon in the humor photography class on Thursday at the La Plata County Fair in the Exhibit Hall at the fairgrounds. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald)<\/span>Jerry McBride<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Contestants
Contestants with their chickens on Thursday wait to go in front of a judge at the La Plata County Fair at the fairgrounds. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald)<\/span>Jerry McBride<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Strawberry
Strawberry jalape\u00f1o jam received a grand champion ribbon on Thursday at the La Plata County Fair in the Exhibit Hall at the fairgrounds. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald)<\/span>Jerry McBride<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Glass
Glass work with ribbons on Thursday at the La Plata County Fair in the Exhibit Hall at the fairgrounds. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald)<\/span>Jerry McBride<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"A
A clay monster on Thursday at the La Plata County Fair in the Exhibit Hall at the fairgrounds. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald)<\/span>Jerry McBride<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Turkeys in their pen on Thursday at the La Plata County Fair at the fairgrounds. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald)Jerry McBride Judy Case, right, from Pueblo, judges quilts on Thursday at the La Plata County Fair in the Exhibit Hall at the fairgrounds. (Jerry McBride\/Durango Herald)Jerry McBride Crochet bike wheels on Thursday at the La Plata County […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[281,364,28,2109,2035,1398],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-17015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-agriculture","tag-community","tag-headlines","tag-la-plata-county-fair","tag-la-plata-county-fairgrounds","tag-livestock-farming"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17015"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20516,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17015\/revisions\/20516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17015"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=17015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}