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<\/div>\n<\/div>\nVideo: Running of the Wieners at Oktoberfest Zinzinnati 2024<\/p>\n
Wiener dogs race to the finish line at the annual Running of the Wieners at Oktoberfest Zinzinnati on Friday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Oktoberfest Zinzinnati<\/a>\u00a0is touted as the\u00a0largest Oktoberfest celebration in the United States<\/a>, but a new ranking says it’s not even Ohio’s best.<\/p>\n The Cincinnati festival fell in USA TODAY’s 10Best Readers\u2019 Choice Awards<\/a> rankings compared to last year, coming in at No. 10 among the top Oktoberfests in the country. The Queen City ranked No. 8 in 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n Oktoberfest Zinzinnati fell behind Big Bear Lake’s Oktoberfest and Schmidt’s Columbus Oktoberfest, which came in at No. 9 and No. 8, respectively. Columbus wasn’t the only Ohio city to have an Oktoberfest rank higher than Cincinnati’s, as Cleveland’s Oktoberfest was No. 3.<\/p>\n Zeeco Oktoberfest in Tulsa, Oklahoma, claimed the No. 1 spot for the second straight year<\/a>.<\/p>\n Attracting over 700,000 visitors to downtown Cincinnati each year, Oktoberfest Zinzinnati, which honors the area’s German heritage, has delivered\u00a0German food, entertainment<\/a>\u00a0and lots (and lots)\u00a0of beer<\/a>\u00a0since its debut in 1976. This year’s festival runs\u00a0Sept. 18-21 at Sawyer Point and Yeatman’s Cove. Last year, the\u00a0festival broke attendance records<\/a>\u00a0with 808,300 people celebrating.<\/p>\n Selections for USA TODAY’s 10Best rankings are nominated by a panel of industry experts, vetted by 10Best editors and then voted on by the public.<\/p>\n USA TODAY is owned by The Enquirer’s parent company, Gannett<\/em>.<\/p>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.cincinnati.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Video: Running of the Wieners at Oktoberfest Zinzinnati 2024 Wiener dogs race to the finish line at the annual Running of the Wieners at Oktoberfest Zinzinnati on Friday. Oktoberfest Zinzinnati\u00a0is touted as the\u00a0largest Oktoberfest celebration in the United States, but a new ranking says it’s not even Ohio’s best. The Cincinnati festival fell in USA […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2030855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[374534,39915,308422,308425,22220,306975,308423,305127,310395,374537,6297,21741,22034,22783,22118,306988,345132,345135,25632,239349,339770,22796,21739,298114,298790,345133,310913,22794,39215,22802,308696,374536,239343,239347,23759,69477,239344,374535],"class_list":["post-2030854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-10best-com","tag-affiliate","tag-alcoholic","tag-alcoholic-beverages","tag-arts","tag-beverage","tag-beverages","tag-cincinnati","tag-downtown","tag-downtown-cincinnati","tag-eamotion","tag-entertainment","tag-events","tag-festivals","tag-food","tag-food-u0026-beverage-events","tag-holiday","tag-holiday-marketplace-hub","tag-holidays","tag-holidays-u0026-seasonal-events","tag-hub","tag-kentucky","tag-local","tag-local-affiliate-arts-u0026-entertainment","tag-local-affiliate-food","tag-marketplace","tag-northern","tag-northern-kentucky","tag-oh","tag-ohio","tag-oktoberfest","tag-oktoberfest-zinzinnati","tag-overall","tag-overall-positive","tag-positive","tag-seasonal","tag-u0026","tag-zinzinnati"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Oktoberfest-Zinzinnati-ranked-as-third-best-Oktoberfest-in-Ohio-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2030854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2030855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2030854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2030854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2030854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Best Oktoberfests, according to USA TODAY 10Best<\/h2>\n
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