Rodeos and county fairs in Arizona
Rodeos and county fairs in Arizona, each compiled from its own sources: dates, gate fees, and the arena. No ratings; every entry carries its status.
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- Apache County FairSt Johns · County fairThe Apache County Fair at St. Johns, Arizona: four late-August days of 4-H barns, ranch rodeo and midway, free at the gate since 1942 by its own count.
- Cochise County FairDouglas · County fairThe Cochise County Fair, held each fall on the fairgrounds just north of Douglas, Arizona, where the Sunday of the fair opens with Cowboy Church at seven in the morning.
- Coconino County FairFlagstaff · County fairThe Coconino County Fair fills Fort Tuthill County Park, south of Flagstaff, each Labor Day weekend, with 4-H stock shows held among former National Guard mess halls.
- Gila County FairGlobe · FestivalGila County's four-day September fair at the fairgrounds just north of Globe, Arizona, began with six children who wanted to show steers and a rancher's gift of land for agriculture, fairs, and racetracks.
- Graham County FairSafford · County fairSafford, Arizona's October county fair, whose 2026 edition is billed as its hundredth, still judges pigeons, rabbits, and field crops a few steps from a carnival midway.
- Greenlee County FairDuncan · County fairA county-run September fair at the fairgrounds outside Duncan, Arizona, with 4-H livestock sales and college rodeo, first held for one day at the Union High School in 1919.
- La Paz County FairParker · County fairA three-day March county fair at Parker, Arizona, begun in 1958 as the Northern Yuma County Fair, whose exhibit hall judges dates by the quart and Chemehuevi baskets.
- Mohave County FairKingman · County fair & rodeoThe Mohave County Fair, four September days at the Kingman fairgrounds, began in 1947 with two former air base barracks set on bare ground among greasewood and ant hills.
- Navajo County Fair & RodeoHolbrook · County fairNavajo County's fair and rodeo, held in September on the Holbrook fairgrounds since 1931, where the 2026 edition ran its demolition derby through a muddy arena.
- Northern Gila County FairPayson · County fairA fall county fair in Payson, Arizona, dating its count to 1955, whose Saturday auction sells the pigs, goats, steers and turkeys raised by Rim Country children.
- Prescott Frontier Days - World's Oldest RodeoPrescott · RodeoA seven-day PRCA rodeo at the Prescott, Arizona, rodeo grounds that dates itself to a July 4, 1888, cowboy tournament won by Juan Leivas of the Date Creek Ranch.
- Santa Cruz County Fair & RodeoSonoita · County fair and rodeoThe membership-owned fairgrounds at Sonoita, Arizona, where the Santa Cruz County Fair and Labor Day Rodeo reached their 111th editions in 2026, on grounds volunteers began building in 1916.
- Tucson Rodeo (La Fiesta de los Vaqueros)Tucson · Professional rodeoLa Fiesta de los Vaqueros, Tucson's February professional rodeo since 1925, whose parade admits no motor vehicles and closes Tucson-area schools for two days.
- Verde Valley FairCottonwood · County fairCottonwood's spring fair, begun in 1965 as a calf sale on a downtown ball field, where Verde Valley 4-H and FFA youth still show and auction their livestock.
- Yavapai County FairChino Valley · County fairThe Yavapai County Fair, held each September at the Prescott Rodeo Grounds in Prescott, Arizona, has run on the same ground since its first fair in October 1913.
- Yuma County FairYuma · County fairYuma County's spring fair, held since 1953 on grounds across the road from Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, whose flight path moved the midway in 2024.
Fairs & Rodeos in all eleven states; next door in California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.