Rodeos and county fairs in Colorado
Rodeos and county fairs in Colorado, each compiled from its own sources: dates, gate fees, and the arena. No ratings; every entry carries its status.
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- Arkansas Valley FairRocky Ford · FairColorado's oldest continuous fair, held each August on the fairgrounds in Rocky Ford, where on Saturday the Rotary Club gives away 30,000 pounds of watermelons to all comers.
- Custer County FairWestcliffe · County fairWestcliffe, Colorado's July county fair, held since 1947, where 4-H and FFA youth show their animals, race llamas, and sell their stock at a closing auction.
- Garfield County FairRifle · County fair and rodeoGarfield County's fair and rodeo in Rifle, Colorado, grew out of 1890s Watermelon Days and a 1909 street giveaway of more than 1,000 free apple pies.
- Gunnison Cattlemen's Days PRCA RodeoGunnison · PRCA rodeoGunnison's July rodeo and fair week, run on Main Street from about 1900 and at the South Spruce Street fairgrounds since 1937, is billed as Colorado's longest-running rodeo.
- Huerfano County FairLa Veta · County fairThe Huerfano County Fair, five days each August at the 4-H barn in La Veta, Colorado, where every species show is followed by a peewee class.
- Logan County Fair & RodeoSterling · County fair and rodeoLogan County's annual fair and rodeo in Sterling, Colorado, first tried in 1888, where children chase calves and a rodeo queen has presided since 1948.
- Moffat County FairCraig · County fairCraig's county fair, held since 1918, fills a week of August with barn shows, rodeo, and contests, and closes on the 4-H and FFA Junior Livestock Sale.
- Montezuma County FairCortez · County fairThe Montezuma County Fair, held each July at the county fairgrounds on Highway 160 in Cortez, began in 1902 as a gathering of apple growers timed to the fall crop.
- Montrose County Fair & RodeoMontrose · County fair and rodeoAn annual county fair and rodeo in Montrose, Colorado, first held in a skating rink in the 1880s, where county crews run backhoes in a rodeo behind the grandstands.
- North Park Fair (Jackson County)Walden · County fairJackson County's fair on the hill north of Walden, Colorado, held since 1948, ends each September with 4-H and FFA youth auctioning the livestock they raised all year.
- Ouray County Fair & RodeoRidgway · County fairThe Ouray County Fair and Labor Day Rodeo in Ridgway, Colorado, where a rodeo dated to 1917 now runs in a 320-by-150-foot arena.
- Routt County FairHayden · County fairHayden's ten-day county fair, held since 1914 on the same fairgrounds south of the town's only stoplight, where the first crowd arrived by special train and watched an airplane fly.
Fairs & Rodeos in all eleven states; next door in Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona.