Indian River County Fairgrounds and Expo Center

The Indian River County Fairgrounds and Expo Center is at 7955 58th Ave, Vero Beach, FL 32967, and its booking line is (772) 226-1035.

The county page places the complex in Central Florida just minutes from Interstate 95 and lists it under Parks, Recreation, and Conservation (Indian River County Fairgrounds and Expo Center page). The county's complex layout map labels the surrounding roads as 77TH ST (HOBART RD), 58TH AV (KINGS HWY), 81ST ST and 76TH LN, and marks several separate parking areas inside the site (Indian River County Fairgrounds layout map).

The fairgrounds sit inside a larger block of county parkland. The county comprehensive plan describes Kiwanis Hobart Park, located between U.S. 1 and 58th Avenue along 77th Street, and says a 36 hole public golf course and the county's fairground site are also located at the park (Comprehensive Plan Chapter 10, Recreation and Open Space). The county places Hobart Ball Fields at the 77th Street and 58th Avenue corner (Hobart Ball Fields page); a separate Digital Towns guide covers Kiwanis Hobart Park and its ball fields.

The county lists three primary facilities for rent at the fairgrounds: the Ag Pavilion, the open air Expo Pavilion and the enclosed, air conditioned Expo Center.

Every figure in the table comes from the county fairgrounds page (Indian River County fairgrounds page, facility descriptions). The page describes the Expo Center twice and gives two sizes. Its first block calls the Expo Exhibition Center an enclosed air conditioned, 20,000 sq feet facility with 17,000 sq. feet of open floor space, ideal for wedding receptions, dances, trade shows and static displays. Its second block calls the Expo Center a 17,600 square feet indoor facility with a maximum occupancy of 1,144 people. Both statements are on the same Indian River County page, and a renter planning a floor layout can ask the fairgrounds office which figure applies; the page also links an Expo Center floorplan.

The Ag Pavilion is the barn-style space of the three. The county says it can host livestock events, pet agility shows, and more, and that trash left over after an event is hauled away by staff from the Indian River County Parks Division; at the Expo Pavilion, Parks Division staff likewise dispose of the trash after an event.

Reservations go through the fairgrounds office at 772-226-1035, on a first come basis, with a minimum 25% deposit required to secure a date.

The Indian River County page states that these facilities are available on a first come basis and require a minimum 25% deposit to secure a reservation, and it repeats under each building to call 772-226-1035 for availability, pricing, and reservation requirements (fairgrounds reservation terms). The page posts no rental rates, so the deposit is the only cost term in writing; the price itself comes from that call. The page also links a county event calendar for the complex, which is the place to check what is already booked rather than any list copied elsewhere.

In the county's adopted budget, the Parks Division tracks the percentage of available time booked for fairground rental, and the figures below are as printed in that table (Indian River County Adopted Budget 2025/2026, Parks Division indicators). Last verified: October 22, 2026, by re-reading the county fairgrounds page and layout map, the FY2025/26 budget book, comprehensive plan Chapter 10, the athletics page and the Hobart Ball Fields page.

Three county documents give three different sizes for the Indian River County fairgrounds site: 139 acres, approximately 145 acres and 77 acres.

The fairgrounds page says the Fairgrounds consists of a total of 139 acres and three primary facilities (fairgrounds page). The complex layout map states Entire Site: Approx. 145 Acres, and adds that all measurements are approximations only and should be field verified (fairgrounds layout map). The park inventory table in the Indian River County comprehensive plan lists IRC Fairgrounds as a county specialty park of 77 acres (Chapter 10 park inventory).

The same Chapter 10 describes Kiwanis Hobart Park, which it says includes the fairground site, as approximately 654 acres, the largest and most developed of the county owned parks, and classifies it as an urban district park (Chapter 10, Kiwanis Hobart Park description).

Indian River County Parks and Recreation uses the fairgrounds for its own classes and leagues, including senior wellness classes, an adult roller derby class and coed youth basketball league games.

The county's adopted budget lists, among Recreation Division accomplishments, expanded Senior Wellness Programming to the North area of the County, offering senior wellness classes at the Fairgrounds and Sebastian Library (FY2025/26 budget, Recreation Division accomplishments). The county athletics page lists an adult roller derby class at the Indian River County Fairgrounds for ages 18 and older, and names the fairgrounds among the gymnasiums for its coed youth basketball league games, alongside the iG Center, Sebastian River Middle School and Sebastian River High School (Indian River County athletics page). Seasons, times and fees for those programs change and are posted on that athletics page.

Indoor sports at the site have a longer history in county planning. Comprehensive plan Chapter 10 says that north of State Road 60, when available, the indoor fairgrounds facility offers youth basketball leagues as part of a county-wide schedule that relies heavily on school sites (Chapter 10, recreation programs north of S.R. 60).

The county comprehensive plan records that a fairgrounds master plan was prepared in the past and set a policy to develop a new one by 2018.

Chapter 10 of the Indian River County 2030 Comprehensive Plan, adopted October 12, 2010 with Supplement #14 adopted August 16, 2016 by Ordinance 2016-008, says that in the past the county prepared master plans for two of its regional parks as well as the county fairgrounds (Comprehensive Plan Chapter 10). Its Policy 3.2 reads: By 2018, the county shall develop a new master plan for the fairgrounds, indicating needed facilities and necessary structures. The analysis section adds that park master plans for the south county park, north county park, and fairground must be evaluated on a regular basis so they meet current needs.

The adopted FY2025/26 budget staffing table for the Indian River County Parks Division includes a full time Fac. Supervisor position for Fair and Campgrounds (Parks Division staffing table). For county matters beyond the fairgrounds, the page footer gives 772 567 8000 and 1801 27th Street in Vero Beach (county contact block).