Washington State Fair
Puyallup, Washington
Located 35 miles south of Seattle, The Washington State Fair operates for only a couple dozen days in September of each year. Despite its short operating season, nearly
one million visitors attend the fair each September. The area opened as the Puyallup Valley Fair in 1900. The park was called the Western Washington Fair for a few years in the early 1900s, but was called The Puyallup Fair until 2013. During
World War II, over 7,000 Japanese Americans from the area were confined there as the fair was converted into a concentration camp. Later in the war, some members of the U.S. Army were housed there as the fair did not operate during the war. The
Classic Coaster and Wildcat are permanently at this location, but some rides and smaller coasters are added for the September fair season. When the Fair is not operating, some of the facilities on the 160-acre plot are
still active with concerts, rodeos, conventions, meetings, expositions, school graduations, and more.
Three permanently-installed coasters have left the park:
- Kersplash, a Water Coaster from E&F Miler Industries, operated here from 1995 to 2012. After leaving Washington, it was
moved to the Edaville Family Theme Park in Carver, Massachusetts. The ride was assembled, but it never operated at its new location. It was eventually demolished in 2023 after a decade of being Standing But Not Operating.
(See pictures below for details.)
- Monster Mouse, a Monster Mouse model from the Allan Herschell Company, was originally built in the 1960s, but came to the Fair in the 1980s. After leaving Washington in 2010, it was
relocated to Parque Acuatico Rey Park in Pajonal, Ecuador. The ride only operated there for two or three years, and ended up being Standing But Not Operating for nearly a decade. It appears to have been demolished some time around 2021.
(See pictures below for details.)
- Rainier Rush, a steel coaster with one inclined inversion, ran at the Fair from 2013 to 2019. It was built by Top Fun, a short-lived Italian company that built a very limited number of coasters in the 1990s. The coaster originally
operated as Typhoon at Santa's Village Amusement & Water Park from 1998 to 2005. It operated as Typhoon at the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds in 2011 and 2012.
There is no evidence that it operated after leaving Washington.
