Stock photo 107th year · Smithers fairgrounds, Bulkley Valley
27–30 August.
Rodeo, midway, main stage, logger sports and the halls. Parade down Main Street the evening before, Wednesday 26 August 2026.
Camping
Pick your nights and pay, in one go.
An RV site is $100.00. Today booking one means you download an application, fill it in, email it back, then send an e-transfer. Four weeks out, each of those steps is somewhere a family gives up and stays home.
Arrive
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Leave
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Site type
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At the gate
The Exhibition’s own published prices.
All four days
One day
Other
Please be prepared to present identification for age clarification.
What is on
All from the Exhibition’s own listings. No times are shown here because the concept does not reproduce the programme.
Read from bvfair.ca, 30 July 2026
The fair is four weeks away and the site is doing most of it right.
Camping is a form you email
An RV site is $100 and the way to get one is to download an application, fill it in, send it to the fair inbox and then e-transfer the money separately. Four weeks out, every one of those steps is somewhere a family gives up.
The front page repeats itself
The same “See you at the 2026 BVX” banner appears four times in the rotation. Somebody arriving with a question — what time do the gates open, what is on Saturday — has to go looking for the answer past four copies of a message they already have.
The footer says 2013
Everything else on the site is current, which makes this stand out more rather than less. It is the number a first-time visitor uses to decide whether what they are reading still applies.
The fair inbox is on a phone company
bvfair@telus.net works, but for a 107-year-old exhibition with sponsors and vendors, an address at your own name reads differently.
Worth saying plainly: the prices are published, the dates are everywhere and the sponsors are up to date. This is a well-run fair with a website that has not been rebuilt in a while, and those are different problems.
What would change, in order
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Take the camping booking online
Pick your nights, pay, done. It is the only paid thing on the site that currently needs four steps and two systems.
2
One banner, and a countdown
Dates, gates and the days remaining. The other three slots can carry what is actually on.
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A schedule you can read on a phone
Standing in a field deciding what to watch next is the single most common way this site gets used.
4
Let the year look after itself
So the footer is never again thirteen years behind the fair.
bvfair@telus.net
Phone
250-847-3816
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