Rodeos and county fairs in California
Rodeos and county fairs in California, each compiled from its own sources: dates, gate fees, and the arena. No ratings; every entry carries its status.
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- Amador County FairPlymouth · County fairThe Amador County Fair, which began in 1887 and has been held in Plymouth since 1938, fires hot corndogs from a cannon into the grandstand before every arena event.
- Butte County FairGridley · County fairA four-day county fair in Gridley, California, on 26 acres that served as a military base in World War II, closing with a destruction derby that includes motorhomes.
- Calaveras County Fair & Jumping Frog JubileeAngels Camp · County fairThe Calaveras County Fair and Jumping Frog Jubilee runs the third weekend of May outside Angels Camp, California, where bullfrogs still chase a 1986 record of 21 feet 5¾ inches.
- California Rodeo SalinasSalinas · PRCA/professional rodeoThe California Rodeo Salinas is one of the top 15 Professional Rodeos in the United States and the largest in California, a not-for-profit community rodeo held at the Salinas Sports Complex.
- Cattle Call RodeoBrawley · Western rodeo celebrationA November rodeo and celebration week in Brawley, in California's Imperial Valley, opening the PRCA season in an arena the town raised on the New River bottom in 1958.
- Clovis RodeoClovis · RodeoThe Clovis Rodeo, a five-day professional rodeo held the last full weekend in April in Clovis, California, began in 1914 as a festival of the Clovis Women's Club.
- Del Norte County FairCrescent City · FairgroundsCrescent City's four-day August county fair on state-owned grounds off Highway 101, begun in Smith River in 1892 and still closed by a junior livestock auction.
- Eastern Sierra Tri-County FairgroundsBishop · FairgroundsThe Eastern Sierra Tri-County Fairgrounds in Bishop, California, where the Tri-County Fair has met since 1953 and its Sunday Demolition Derby raises money for volunteer firefighters.
- Humboldt County Fair & Event CenterFerndale · County fair & event centerThe Humboldt County Fairgrounds at Ferndale, California, where the county fair has been held since 1896 and where, in 2026, a college rodeo took over the old racetrack.
- Inter-Mountain FairMcArthur · Fair & events centerShasta County's Labor Day fair at McArthur, held every year since 1918 but 1943, opening with a sheep show and closing with a junior livestock auction.
- Kern County FairBakersfield · County fairThe Kern County Fair fills its grounds in southeast Bakersfield for twelve days each fall, a fair that began in tents on Chester Avenue on August 5, 1916.
- Lassen County FairSusanville · County fairThe Lassen County Fair, held in Susanville, California, since about 1890, gives five July days to rodeo, carnival, and 4-H stock, ending with a junior livestock auction and demolition derby.
- Mariposa County FairgroundsMariposa · FairgroundMariposa's fairgrounds on Highway 49, set among WPA rubble walls, has held a Labor Day fair and homecoming since 1939 and in September 2026 became a Dome Fire camp.
- Mendocino County Fair & Apple ShowBoonville · Annual county fair and apple showA three-day old-time harvest festival each September showcasing Anderson Valley apples and other local produce.
- Modoc District FairgroundsCedarville · FairgroundsCedarville's 1933 fairgrounds in Surprise Valley, California, saved from closure by its community in 2015 and now run without paid staff, home to a free August district fair.
- Mother Lode FairSonora · County fairgrounds and year-round event centerThe Tuolumne County fair in Sonora, California, held on its Southgate Drive grounds since 1938, where a junior livestock auction and a destruction derby share one July weekend.
- Nevada County FairGrass Valley · FairgroundsThe Nevada County Fair fills a pine-shaded fairgrounds in Grass Valley each summer, and its nonprofit food booths on Treat Street raise more than $1 million a year.
- Plumas Sierra County FairQuincy · County fairThe 62-acre fairground is the premier meeting place for conferences, weddings, birthdays, trade shows and special events, and can accommodate everything from concerts to ropings.
- Red Bluff Round-UpRed Bluff · RodeoAmerica's largest three-day rodeo, founded in 1921 as an adjunct to the Tehama County Fair; the first Northern California rodeo to join the Cowboys' Turtle Association, a precursor to the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA).
- Siskiyou Golden FairgroundsYreka, CA · FairgroundYreka's Siskiyou Golden Fairgrounds, bought by public subscription in 1925, holds a June county fair whose line runs back to an 1859 agricultural show at Fort Jones.
- Springville Sierra RodeoSpringville · Professional rodeo within the professional rodeo cowboys association (PRCA)A PRCA rodeo held each April since 1949 in the Sierra foothills at Springville, California, on an old sawmill site whose arena and bleachers four town clubs own.
- Stonyford RodeoStonyford · Rodeo groundsThe Stonyford Rodeo is a three-day PRCA rodeo in Colusa County, California, run since 1943 by the Stony Creek Horsemen's Association on grounds volunteers rebuilt after two fires.
- Trinity County FairHayfork · County fairThe Trinity County Fair in Hayfork, California, held since 1921, began when one rancher entered a booth for the whole county at a neighboring fair and won.
- Tulelake-Butte Valley FairTulelake · FairgroundsThe Tulelake-Butte Valley Fair is a four-day September fair in Tulelake, California, built on a Bureau of Reclamation alfalfa field that took an act of Congress to acquire.
- Willits Frontier DaysWillits · RodeoWillits Frontier Days, a volunteer-run rodeo and summer celebration in Willits, California, held its 100th edition in 2026; it began as a fundraiser for a hospital.
Fairs & Rodeos in all eleven states; next door in Oregon, Nevada, and Arizona.