Rodeos and county fairs in the West
Rodeos and county fairs across the West, each compiled from its own sources: dates, gate fees, and the arena.
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Arizona
- 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.
California
- 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.
Colorado
- 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.
Idaho
- Adams County FairCouncil · FairgroundEach July the Adams County Fair fills the fairgrounds on Highway 95 at Council, Idaho, with 4-H and FFA livestock and a rodeo, and closes with an 11 a.m. sale of the children's market animals.
- Bannock County FairDowney · Annual county fair and rodeoBannock County's August fair and rodeo in Downey, Idaho, the surviving half of twin county fairs that by all accounts began in the 19th century.
- Bear Lake County FairMontpelier · CarnivalA six-day county fair on U.S. Highway 30 in Montpelier, Idaho, whose association was organized in 1906 and whose 2026 edition closed with a free redneck rodeo.
- Blaine County FairCarey · Agricultural serviceThe Blaine County Fair is a free August week of 4-H livestock shows, rodeos and a barn dance in Carey, Idaho, kept without carnival rides for over half a century.
- Bonner County FairSandpoint · FairgroundThe Bonner County Fair, a free August agricultural fair on North Boyer Road in Sandpoint, Idaho, dates itself from 1927, though a forgotten earlier fair began in 1908.
- Bonneville County FairIdaho Falls · County fairAn eight-day county fair on about 50 acres at the southeast edge of Idaho Falls, opening with Cowboy Church and closing with the junior livestock auction.
- Boundary County FairBonners Ferry · FairgroundsBoundary County's free five-day August fair beside the Kootenai River at Bonners Ferry, Idaho, held since 1920 on grounds townspeople built with hammers on "Knockers Day," 1921.
- Butte County FairArco · County fairButte County's 4-H and livestock fair in Arco, Idaho, held in August before a white WPA-era grandstand that came through the 1983 earthquake and was rebuilt by volunteers in 2022.
- Caldwell Night RodeoCaldwell · Top 25 PRCA rodeoA five-night professional rodeo held under the lights each August in Caldwell, Idaho, which has billed no headliner since a week of rain bankrupted it in 1965.
- Camas County FairFairfield · County fairCamas County's summer fair in Fairfield, Idaho, held along Main Street and the city park, with a Saturday parade one 2008 account said passes each spectator twice.
- Cambridge RodeoCambridge · RodeoTwo Idaho Cowboys Association rodeos at the Washington County Fairgrounds in Cambridge, Idaho, one on Hells Canyon weekend and one at fair week, scored since 2026 as one series.
- Canyon County FairCaldwell · Canyon county fairCanyon County's four-day July fair in Caldwell, Idaho, where youth livestock shows open each morning at eight and the fair traces itself to an association organized in 1887.
- Caribou County Fair & RodeoGrace · Annual six-day community eventGrace, Idaho, holds Caribou County's six-day August fair and PRCA rodeo, free at the gate, with roots a 1977 valley history traces to a 1928 dairy show.
- Cassia County Fair & RodeoBurley · P.r.c.a rodeo seriesThe Cassia County Fair & Rodeo in Burley, Idaho, charges no gate and closes with three nights of what the state's rodeo hall of fame calls Idaho's oldest continuous professional rodeo.
- Clark County FairDubois · County fairsClark County's three-day August fair in Dubois, Idaho, a county of under one person per square mile, where 4-H goats joined the livestock show in 2025.
- Clearwater County FairOrofino · Summer traditionThe Clearwater County Fair and Orofino Lumberjack Days, a four-day September weekend in Orofino, Idaho, where 4-H livestock share the city park with chopping, bucking, and crosscut saws.
- Custer County FairMackay · FestivalThe Custer County Fair in Mackay, Idaho: a week of 4-H and FFA livestock shows and ranch rodeo, with average-daily-gain posters hung above the pens.
- Eastern Idaho State FairBlackfoot · FairgroundA nine-day September fair in Blackfoot, Idaho, begun by cattlemen in 1902, where Shoshone-Bannock relay riders change horses bareback between pari-mutuel races.
- Elmore County Fair & RodeoGlenns Ferry · Fair and open rodeoThe Elmore County Fair and Rodeo grounds in Glenns Ferry, Idaho, where a mid-July fair, numbered the 121st in 2026, runs from 4-H shows to a ranch bronc ride-off.
- Franklin County FairPreston · FairgroundsFranklin County's August fair in Preston, Idaho, moved its exhibits into a new event center in 2026 and still runs pig wrestling, a baby contest, and Saturday-night bull riding.
- Fremont County FairSaint Anthony · County fairThe Fremont County Fair, a week of livestock shows, rodeo and demolition derby each August in St. Anthony, Idaho, where children wade into a pond after live trout barehanded.
- Gem/Boise County Fair & RodeoEmmett · Fair & rodeoThe Gem/Boise County Fair, a free county fair at the Gem County Fairgrounds in Emmett, Idaho, has been held since 1915, and its evenings close with the PRCA Black Canyon Stock Show & Rodeo.
- Gooding County FairGooding · FairThe Gooding County Fair and Pro Rodeo, held each August at Gooding, Idaho, began in 1916 as a farmers' fair at Wendell and moved onto old cavalry grounds in 1925.
- Grangeville Border Days RodeoGrangeville · Idaho's oldest rodeo eventGrangeville Border Days, a Fourth of July celebration on Idaho's Camas Prairie since 1912, runs three rodeos, three parades, and an egg toss its organizers call the world's largest.
- Idaho County FairCottonwood · Annual county fairThe Idaho County Fair is held each August at the fairgrounds in Cottonwood, on Idaho's Camas Prairie, where one volunteer has measured the entrants in the pigtail contest for 31 years.
- Jefferson County FairRigby · County fairThe Jefferson County Fair in Rigby, Idaho, is an August week of 4-H barns, an amateur jackpot rodeo, and a youth market sale that in 2026 topped $800,000.
- Jerome County Fair & RodeoJerome · FairgroundJerome County's August fair and PRCA rodeo in Jerome, Idaho, held as a county fair since 1920, whose rodeo won the 2024 Medium Rodeo of the Year award against 400 others.
- Kuna RodeoKuna · RodeoThe Kuna Stampede Rodeo is a nonprofit, open-competition rodeo held each September at the Crooked 8 Event Center in Kuna, Idaho. It brought rodeo back to the town for the first time since 1949.
- Latah County FairMoscow · Four-day, admission free eventA four-day, admission free event welcoming over 20,000 of our families, friends, neighbors and communities from across the Palouse with a carnival, food, fun, games, entertainment, animals, logging sports, educational activities and more. A very proud Latah County tradition since 1911.
- Lemhi County Fair & Salmon StampedeSalmon · PRCA rodeoThe Lemhi County Fair and Salmon Stampede PRCA Rodeo fill late August in Salmon, Idaho, at a fair that began with Idaho's first 4-H sewing clubs.
- Lewis County FairNezperce · FairThe Lewis County Fair, a four-day 4-H and open-class fair in Nezperce, Idaho, came home in 2023 to a new livestock pavilion after snow brought down its 1965 barn.
- Lincoln County Fair & RodeoShoshone · EventThe Lincoln County Fair & Rodeo is held in Shoshone Idaho the last full week of July each year
- Madison County FairRexburg · County fairgroundsThe Madison County Fair in Rexburg, Idaho, first held in 1911, where four August days run from branding at a ranch rodeo to a Best Mullet contest.
- Minidoka County Fair & RodeoRupert · Open rodeoThe Minidoka County Fair & Rodeo in Rupert, Idaho, is a week of 4-H livestock shows and two nights of open rodeo, with no carnival rides and no flashing lights.
- Mud Lake FairMud Lake (Terreton/Mud Lake fairgrounds) · Fair and rodeoAn August fair and rodeo at the Terreton fairgrounds in western Jefferson County, Idaho, where the Lady Lions grill burgers north of the grandstand and the Friday crowd ran 500 to 600.
- Nez Perce County FairLewiston · County fairLewiston's four-day county fair, held each September since 1944 on Burrell Avenue, whose volunteer board traces to petitions from 4,500 county residents in 1953.
- North Idaho State FairCoeur d'Alene · Ten-dayThe North Idaho State Fair is one of the region's largest annual celebrations, welcoming more than 150,000 guests each August for 10 days of agriculture, entertainment, rodeo, concerts, carnival rides, delicious fair food, and family traditions that have brought communities together for over a century.
- Oakley Pioneer DaysOakley · Community traditionOakley Pioneer Days celebrates Western heritage with rodeos, bump-n-rub car races, and more, hosted by the Oakley Vigilantes.
- Oneida County FairMalad City · FairThe Oneida County Fair & Rodeo takes over the fairgrounds on South Main in Malad City, Idaho, each August with horse racing, draft-horse pulls, youth livestock and themed rodeo nights.
- Owyhee County Fair & RodeoHomedale · County fairThe Owyhee County Fair and Rodeo in Homedale, Idaho, holds 4-H barn shows and a cow patty toss on the Snake River, beside a rodeo that has crowned a queen every year since 1946.
- Paris 4th of July CelebrationParis · CelebrationParis, Idaho, keeps a two-day Fourth of July whose centerpiece, since 1981, is a patriotic choir program in a red sandstone tabernacle dedicated in 1889.
- Payette County FairNew Plymouth · FairgroundThe Payette County Fair in New Plymouth, Idaho, charges no admission, runs no carnival rides, and began in 1927 in a Congregational church basement.
- Power County Fair & RodeoAmerican Falls · Fairs & festivalsPower County Fair is a 5-day fair scheduled to be held from August 3, 2026 (Monday) to August 7, 2026 (Friday) at the Power County Fairgrounds in American Falls, Idaho and organized by Power County Fair Board.
- Snake River StampedeNampa · Professional rodeoThe Snake River Stampede is a professional rodeo held each June at the Ford Idaho Center in Nampa, Idaho, where 18 riders run a horseback drill in a darkened arena.
- Teton Valley FairDriggs · FairgroundTeton County's agricultural fair at the Driggs fairgrounds, held since 1923, where a week of 4-H livestock shows runs alongside pig wrangling, a horse pull, and lawn mower races.
- Treasure Valley PRCA RodeoMeridian · PRCA rodeo sanctioned as part of the wilderness circuit and co-approved with the columbia river circuitA Lions Club PRCA rodeo held each June in a hay field on Meridian, Idaho's Cherry Lane, where children ride sheep out of mini bucking chutes before the professionals.
- Twin Falls County FairFiler · County fairThe Twin Falls County Fair at Filer, Idaho, held on the same grounds since the Southern Idaho Fair of 1916, ends each summer with the Magic Valley Stampede rodeo.
- Valley County FairCascade · Performance & event venue
- War Bonnet Round UpIdaho Falls · Idaho's oldest rodeoThe War Bonnet Round Up, Idaho's oldest professional rodeo, fills Sandy Downs in Idaho Falls each August, as Shoshone-Bannock relay riders filled the first gathering in 1911.
- Washington County FairCambridge · RodeoThe Washington County Fair in Cambridge, Idaho: a late-July week of youth livestock shows and rodeo whose 2026 market sale, with add-ons, brought just over $700,000.
- Weippe RodeoWeippe · RodeoAn ICA-sanctioned rodeo held each August in Weippe, Idaho, on grounds that local residents cleared in 1959 with donated fence wire and a neighbor's caterpillar.
- Weiser RodeoWeiser · IcaBringing the Tradition of Rodeo to the Weiser Valley for more than 79 Years! Held the 2nd Full week (Thursday, Friday, Saturday) of July every year.
- Western Idaho FairBoise · FairgroundThe Western Idaho Fair, held each August at Expo Idaho in Boise since 1897, where cows are milked live and an early Ferris wheel was said to be the first west of the Mississippi.
- White Bird RodeoWhite Bird · RodeoA two-night Idaho Cowboys Association rodeo held each Father's Day weekend at a volunteer-built arena on leased BLM land beside the Salmon River, six miles south of White Bird.
Montana
- Augusta American Legion RodeoAugusta · RodeoA one-day PRCA rodeo on the last Sunday of June in Augusta, Montana, produced by an American Legion post that took it on in 1938 with $3.75 in the treasury.
- Beaverhead County FairDillon · County fairBeaverhead County's Labor Day fair in Dillon, Montana, where 4-H and FFA market livestock sells Saturday afternoon while the Dillon Jaycees run two days of PRCA rodeo alongside.
- Big Horn County FairHardin · FairgroundBig Horn County's fair in Hardin, Montana: a week of youth livestock shows ending in Indian relay races, a PRCA rodeo, and a dance on an old runway.
- Big Sky Country State FairBozeman · The state fairA five-day July fair at the Gallatin County Fairgrounds in Bozeman, Montana, held since 1903 on ground that passed through a fugitive financier's bankrupt estate.
- Big Timber RodeoBig Timber · RodeoThe Big Timber Rodeo, held at the Sweet Grass County Fairgrounds in Big Timber, Montana, since 1923, is produced again by descendants of the stock contractor Leo J. Cremer.
- Blaine County FairChinook · County fairA four-day August county fair on Montana's Hi-Line at Chinook, traced to a 1914 fair, where 4-H livestock, a PRCA rodeo, and a free midway share the grounds.
- Broadwater County FairTownsend · County fairThe Broadwater County Fair and Townsend Rodeo, held each August on the fairgrounds along US Highway 12 in Townsend, Montana, reached its 63rd annual rodeo in 2026, still volunteer-run.
- Butte-Silver Bow County FairButte · County fairButte's county fair, a free three-day run of 4-H livestock, freestyle motocross and a cake auction, has changed grounds three times since 2018 and now fills the Civic Center lots.
- Calamity's Classic RodeoLivingston · Hometown rodeoA two-night Northern Rodeo Association rodeo at the Park County Fairgrounds in Livingston, Montana, started in 2023 so that locals could get seats at a rodeo in their own town.
- Carbon County FairRed Lodge · FairThe Carbon County Fair, a week of 4-H and FFA shows on Rodeo Drive in Red Lodge, Montana, closes with a free tri-tip lunch before the Saturday livestock sale.
- Central Montana FairLewistown · FairgroundThe Central Montana Fair, held each late July on the Fergus County Fairgrounds north of Lewistown, Montana, where a 1917 red-tile draft horse barn still greets fairgoers.
- Choteau American Legion RodeoChoteau · Annual 4th of july rodeo sanctioned by the northern rodeo associationAn American Legion post's Fourth of July rodeo in Choteau, Montana, held in a river-bottom arena and counted to its 80th edition in 2026.
- Chouteau County FairFort Benton · 4-h & FFA fairThe Chouteau County Fair, held each August on the riverside fairgrounds at Fort Benton, Montana, numbers its editions from 1912 and seats its night crowds in a 1930 grandstand.
- Crow FairCrow Agency · Celebration of apsáalooke (crow) cultureCrow Fair, the Apsáalooke celebration held each August at Crow Agency, Montana, where families pitch more than a thousand tipis on poles harvested in the Pryor and Big Horn Mountains.
- Daniels County FairScobey · FairgroundThe Daniels County Fair in Scobey, Montana, is a July run of 4-H livestock, ranch rodeo and demolition derby, held on grounds the Scobey Saddle Club rebuilt after the war.
- Darby's Wild West RodeoDarby · Full-blown rodeoDarby, Montana's Wild West NRA Rodeo is two summer nights at the Richard Cromwell Memorial Rodeo Grounds, the one event on the arena's calendar running all eight rodeo contests.
- Dawson County FairGlendive · Community centerThe Dawson County Fair at Glendive, Montana, runs a week of 4-H judging, a PRCA rodeo and a grandstand concert on grounds a WPA crew piped from the Yellowstone in 1938.
- Days of '85 Fair & RodeoEkalaka · Fair and rodeoCarter County's August fair and rodeo in Ekalaka, Montana, named for the town's 1885 post office, where Feek Tooke once tried out his bucking horses before the crowd.
- East Helena Valley RodeoEast Helena · VenueThe July rodeo in East Helena, Montana, run by volunteers since a barber pitched it to the VFW in 1963, now held on grounds built in 58 days.
- Eastern Montana FairMiles City · FairThe Eastern Montana Fair is Custer County's August fair at Miles City; it reached its hundredth edition in 2026, and for the first, in 1926, downtown merchants closed their stores.
- Ennis RodeoEnnis · RodeoA volunteer-run, two-night Fourth of July rodeo in Ennis, Montana, held in an arena whose bleachers were hauled over from West Yellowstone.
- Eureka RodeoEureka · Stadium, arena & sports venueTwo summer nights of Northern Rodeo Association competition at the Lincoln County Fairgrounds in Eureka, Montana, staged by volunteers and named the circuit's 2025 Platinum Rodeo of the Year.
- Fallon County FairBaker · CommunityA six-day August county fair and PRCA rodeo at the fairgrounds south of Baker, Montana, first held in 1924 on the grounds of a former lumber yard.
- Frontier Days RodeoCulbertson · CommunityThe Culbertson Saddle Club's two-night June rodeo north of Culbertson, Montana, held for the 63rd time in 2026, where spectators can watch from their pickups on tiered parking.
- Gardiner RodeoGardiner · Gardiner annual NRA rodeoA two-night Northern Rodeo Association rodeo held on Father's Day weekend at Gardiner, Montana, beside Yellowstone's north entrance, and run every year since the Jaycees started it in 1975.
- Great Northern FairHavre · Hill county's fairThe Great Northern Fair is Hill County's five-day July fair on US Highway 2 in Havre, Montana, where a chainsaw juggler roams the grounds and a demolition derby closes Sunday night.
- Harlowton NRA RodeoHarlowton · RodeoA National Rodeo Association rodeo held each July 2 and 3 in Harlowton, Montana, where roundup crews staged Sunday contests on the Musselshell as early as the 1880s.
- Helmville Labor Day RodeoHelmville · Annual rodeoA two-day Northern Rodeo Association rodeo held each Labor Day in Helmville, Montana, watched from a wooden grandstand the valley's ranchers raised in 1927.
- Home of Champions RodeoRed Lodge · RodeoThe Home of Champions Rodeo, held each Fourth of July week on a bench above Red Lodge, Montana, finishes every performance before dark because its 1932 arena has no lights.
- Jefferson County RodeoBoulder · County fair and NRA rodeoBoulder, Montana's county fair and rodeo, held each August on a former state institution ranch, where the carousel horses were cast partly from townspeople's melted pots and pans.
- Judith Basin County FairStanford · FairgroundsThe Judith Basin County Fair in Stanford, Montana, is a free five-day 4-H fair with a working ranch horse show and quilts hung in an old schoolhouse.
- Lake County FairRonan · FairThe Lake County Fair fills the county fairgrounds in Ronan, Montana, each late July with 4-H livestock shows and a chamber crab feed, and in 2026 a volunteer-revived rodeo.
- Last Chance Stampede & FairHelena · FairgroundHelena's Last Chance Stampede & Fair runs five July days of PRCA rodeo, carnival and county fair on grounds circled by a mile-long racetrack built in 1870.
- Lincoln County FairEureka · FairgroundThe Lincoln County Fair, held each August at Eureka, Montana, since 1909, runs no carnival rides but fills its bleachers for a Saturday-night bull riding called The Bull Thing.
- Livingston Fourth of July RoundupLivingston · Annual paradeLivingston, Montana's three-day Fourth of July weekend of parade, arts festival and Montana's oldest rodeo, where a Depot Foundation truck has driven the July 2 parade since about 1950.
- Livingston RoundupLivingston · PRCA rodeoMontana's oldest rodeo runs July 1 through 4 at the Park County Fairgrounds in Livingston, and its cowboys leave after their runs for Cody and Red Lodge.
- Madison County Fair & RodeoTwin Bridges · FairgroundsMadison County Fairgrounds has lots to do for everyone. This is a place for family fun.
- Marias FairShelby · FairThe four-county Marias Fair, held the third week of July just east of Shelby, Montana, where rodeo and 4-H shows play out before wooden grandstands reported to date from 1938.
- McCone County Fair & PRCA RodeoCircle · RodeoThe McCone County Fair and its PRCA rodeo, held each August at the fairgrounds outside Circle, Montana, where the bucking horses are J Bar J broncs raised close to home.
- Miles City Bucking Horse SaleMiles City · Cowboy mardi grasThere are rodeos… and then there's Miles City. The World Famous Miles City Bucking Horse Sale stands in a league of its own.
- Mineral County Fair & RodeoSuperior · FairMineral County's three-day August fair in Superior, Montana, held around a Lions Club rodeo whose arena went up in 1982 on donated telephone poles.
- Mission Mountain RodeoPolson · NRA rodeoA two-night NRA rodeo held each June at the Polson Fairgrounds in Montana, beside the Flathead River, first staged in 1940 as the Polson Roundup by café owner Les Baldwin.
- Montana State FairGreat Falls · State fairThe Montana State Fair, nine summer days at Great Falls' ExpoPark, where Depression-era Art Deco halls stand over a midway serving the Sons of Norway Viking.
- MontanaFairBillings · FairgroundMontanaFair is a nine-day August fair at MetraPark in Billings that began in 1916 as the Midland Empire Fair, when the Northern Pacific ran a special train from the depot.
- Musselshell-Golden Valley FairROUNDUP · 4-h fairThe joint 4-H and FFA fair of Musselshell and Golden Valley counties, held each summer at the county fairgrounds in Roundup and closed by a Saturday market livestock sale.
- NileBillings, Montana · Week-long stock show and rodeoThe NILE, a nine-day October stock show and rodeo at MetraPark in Billings, Montana, held since 1967, where ranch crews compete at wild cow milking and team doctoring.
- Northeast Montana FairGlasgow · FairValley County's five-day August fair on US Highway 2 at Glasgow, Montana, with two nights of PRCA rodeo and a sanctioned wild horse race after each.
- Northwest Montana FairKalispell · Fair & rodeoFlathead County's fair and rodeo in Kalispell, first held in 1902, now runs five August days, with three nights of PRCA rodeo before a century-old covered grandstand.
- NRA Finals RodeoKalispell · Championship finaleThe culmination of the rodeo season - the region's elite cowboys, cowgirls and rankest livestock over three nights; only the top 10 in each of the 9 events qualify for the Finals.
- Park County FairLivingston · Agricultural fairA late-July week of 4-H and FFA livestock shows in Livingston, Montana, closing with a youth market sale its organizers call the county's greatest scholarship program.
- Phillips County FairDodson · County fairMontana's longest continuously running county fair, held since 1915 on the Hi-Line fairgrounds at Dodson, where the grandstand faces the Great Northern tracks.
- Poplar Wild West DaysPoplar · RodeoPoplar's four-day June celebration on the Fort Peck Reservation: parades on two mornings, a fire-department pie social, and an NRA rodeo at the Saddle Club grounds.
- Powder River Fair & RodeoBroadus · County fairPowder River County's fair in Broadus, Montana, first held in 1920, where five days of 4-H shows met a free Friday-night NRA rodeo in 2026.
- Prairie County FairTerry, MT · FairTerry, Montana's August county fair, on grounds along the abandoned Milwaukee Road, holds its Sunday pie auction in a pavilion raised for its late sound man.
- Ravalli County FairHamilton · Fair and rodeoThe Ravalli County Fair in Hamilton, Montana, where Bitterroot Valley ranch families have shown livestock since 1893 and a free rodeo runs every night of the four days.
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- Roosevelt County FairCulbertson · FREE entry fairRoosevelt County's free-gate fair in Culbertson, Montana, held each August beside the town airfield, where on Friday the exhibits parade to the hospital patio.
- Rosebud/Treasure County FairForsyth · County fairThe Rosebud-Treasure County Fair in Forsyth, Montana, held every summer since 1906 except 1934 and 1945, with a PRCA rodeo and what it calls eastern Montana's only grass midway.
- Sanders County Fair & RodeoPlains · FairgroundThe Sanders County Fair and Plains PRCA Rodeo fills the River Road fairgrounds in Plains, Montana, over Labor Day weekend; it began with a 1911 horse race.
- Sheridan County FairPlentywood · FairThe Sheridan County Fair is a classic small-town Montana fair filled with community spirit, local agriculture, and family-friendly fun.
- Stillwater County 4-H FairColumbus · 4-h/FFA fairStillwater County's week-long 4-H and FFA fair at the ACE Civic Center north of Columbus, Montana, ending each July in a Saturday afternoon sale of youth-raised livestock.
- Superior Lions Club RodeoSuperior · RodeoThe Superior Lions Club's Northern Rodeo Association rodeo at the Mineral County Fair in Superior, Montana, was built in 1982 from salvaged telephone poles and pays raw gold to three-time winners.
- Sweet Grass County FairBig Timber · VenueSweet Grass County's late-July fair in Big Timber, Montana: five days of 4-H and FFA showing that end in a Friday-night sale of the young exhibitors' animals.
- Sweet Grass FestBig Timber · Street fair and paradeBig Timber's two-day street fair, parade and rodeo, held the last weekend of June in Sweet Grass County, Montana, around a rodeo that reached its 100th year in 2023.
- Teton County 4-H FairChoteau · Livestock auctionTeton County's 4-H fair in Choteau, Montana, held each late June in a city pavilion and a volunteer-built steel arena, because the county has no fairgrounds.
- Three Forks RodeoThree Forks · Northern rodeo association rodeoA Northern Rodeo Association rodeo held the third weekend of July on the Three Forks, Montana, grounds where it began in 1946, with a Main Street parade every year since.
- Tri-County FairDeer LodgeAnnual Tri-County Fair held 3rd week of August, 4-H/FFA Fair with open class entries, rodeo and carnival.
- Valley View RodeoBozeman · Sports & recreationA weekly summer rodeo at the Gallatin County Fairgrounds in Bozeman, Montana, founded in 2023 and run open, so beginners and professionals compete on the same Thursday nights.
- Western Montana FairMissoula · FairThe Western Montana Fair runs each August on Missoula's South Avenue fairgrounds, a former airfield; it counts its official start from 1879 and has charged no admission since 2017.
- Wheatland County Youth FairHarlowton · Wheatland county youth fairA three-day youth fair at the county fairgrounds in Harlowton, Montana, where young exhibitors show and sell livestock on ground first cleared for a fair in 1910.
- White Sulphur Springs Labor Day RodeoWhite Sulphur Springs · Community organizationFor 60 years, the White Sulphur Springs Labor Day Rodeo is one of Central Montana’s most anticipated events.
- Whoop-Up Trail DaysConrad · Annual eventThe main event is a two-day rodeo which kicks off Friday evening and a second event held Saturday afternoon at the Conrad Rodeo Grounds.
- Wibaux County FairWibaux · Fair & festival datesFor affordable, family fun, come to Wibaux in August and enjoy the little fair with big fun!
- Wilsall RodeoWilsall · Small town, 2 night NRA rodeoThe Wilsall Rodeo is a two-night amateur rodeo held each June in Montana's Shields Valley, on grounds that ranchers built in 1953 from poles cut in the mountains.
Nevada
- Clark County Fair & RodeoLogandale · County fair and PRCA/WPRA rodeoA five-day April county fair and PRCA rodeo on 190 acres in Logandale, Nevada, begun in 1965 as the Moapa Valley Fair, where children ride sheep from bucking chutes.
- Douglas County RodeoGardnerville · RodeoThe Douglas County Rodeo is a two-night September rodeo and concert at the county fairgrounds in Gardnerville, Nevada, started in 2021 by three local partners on a $20,000 budget.
- Elko County FairElko · PRCA rodeoAn end-of-summer county fair in Elko, Nevada, first held in 1920, where ranch crews race the clock at hot-iron branding and nine local stables close the meet.
- Eureka County FairEureka · County fair and rodeoEureka County's August fair and rodeo, free to enter, on U.S. 50 just west of Eureka, Nevada, ends on Sunday with a team roping held in a local woman's memory.
- Lincoln County Nevada Fair and RodeoPanaca · Annual county fair and rodeoAn August county fair and rodeo at Panaca, Nevada, where children ten and under ride sheep in the afternoon and the top ten return for the night rodeo.
- Lyon County Fair & RodeoYerington · County fairThe Lyon County Fair, Rodeo & Silver State Youth Livestock Show fills the Yerington fairgrounds each August, from a Thursday-night pig scramble to a Sunday market-livestock auction.
- Reno RodeoReno · PRCA rodeoTen-day PRCA rodeo each June run by a nonprofit volunteer association, drawing over 140,000 fans as the 4th richest PRCA tour rodeo.
- State Fair of NevadaReno · State fairThe official State Fair of Nevada, revived in June 2026 at the Reno fairgrounds after its 2011 collapse, where youth livestock go to the Governor's Sale of Champions.
- Tri-County FairWinnemucca · RodeoWinnemucca, Nevada's Labor Day fair for Humboldt, Lander and Pershing counties, built around a rodeo its organizers bill as Nevada's oldest continuous one.
- White Pine Horse RacesEly · County fair and horse racesThoroughbred and quarter horse racing with pari-mutuel betting at the White Pine County Fairgrounds in Ely, Nevada, begun by ranchers and business people in 1934 to shake off the Depression blues.
New Mexico
- Catron County FairReserveCatron County's annual fair at the Reserve, New Mexico, fairgrounds: junior livestock shows and a sale, a ranch rodeo of four-person teams, and cowboy church on Sunday morning.
- Colfax County Fair & RodeoSpringer · County fairA non-profit county fair and rodeo on Airport Road in Springer, New Mexico, where junior exhibitors sold 56 animals for some $323,000 in 2026.
- De Baca County FairFort Sumner · County fairThe De Baca County Fair, held on the fairgrounds in Fort Sumner, New Mexico, closes with a Saturday-night junior livestock sale that first passed six figures in 2022.
- Grant County FairCliff · County fairThe Cliff-Gila Grant County Fair, held each late September in Cliff, New Mexico, since 1948, where 4-H and FFA livestock and a working ranch rodeo share the grounds.
- Harding County FairRoy · County fairThe Harding County Fair, held in August at the fairgrounds in Roy, New Mexico, began in September 1921 with a 200-foot exhibit tent and three days of baseball against Dawson.
- Lincoln County FairCapitan · County fairThe Lincoln County Fair in Capitan, New Mexico, a youth livestock show begun in 1953 as Achievement Day, ends each August with a Friday-night Junior Livestock Sale.
- Rodeo de Santa FeSanta Fe · Annual rodeoFour late-June nights of PRCA rodeo on Rodeo Road in Santa Fe, New Mexico, held since 1949, its mascot a devil bull made by the builder of Zozobra.
- Sierra County FairTruth or Consequences · County fairThe Sierra County Fair is a free October county fair on South Broadway in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, where Saturday brings cow patty bingo and the junior livestock sale.
- Union County FairClayton · County fairClayton, New Mexico's annual county fair runs four August days of youth livestock shows and Tin Barn quilts, ending with a steak dinner and the Junior Livestock Sale.
Oregon
- Benton County FairCorvallis · County fairCorvallis, Oregon's county fair and rodeo, whose Saturday 4-H and FFA livestock auction raised just shy of $1 million for the county's young people in 2023.
- Clackamas County FairCanby · County fairA five-day county fair on Canby's NE 4th Avenue fairgrounds in Clackamas County, Oregon, where since 1958 the rodeo has packed "four hours of rodeo excitement in only two hours."
- Clatsop County FairAstoria · Annual county fairAstoria's county fair, held since 1905, now fills 109 acres above the Walluski River after nine decades in a theater, a courthouse basement and on waterfront docks.
- Columbia County Fair & RodeoSt Helens · County fair & rodeoColumbia County's fair and NPRA rodeo, held in July on grounds east of St. Helens, Oregon, entered between stone monuments carried from its old Deer Island site.
- Coos County Fair & RodeoMyrtle Point · County fair and rodeoCoos County's summer fair and two-night rodeo, held on the fairgrounds in Myrtle Point, Oregon, since 1912, with a thirty-foot model of a log mill upstairs.
- Crook County FairPrineville, OR · County fairThe Crook County Fair, four free August days on Prineville's south-end fairgrounds, began in 1904 as a horse race and small exhibits beside a track that remains.
- Curry County FairGold Beach · County fairCurry County's summer fair at Gold Beach, Oregon, held on grounds that its 2018 strategic plan calls the only fairgrounds in the state next to the beach.
- Deschutes County Fair & RodeoRedmond · County fair and rodeoCentral Oregon's five-day county fair and NPRA rodeo on Redmond's Airport Way grounds, which began in 1906 as a show for the Deschutes Netted Gem potato.
- Douglas County FairRoseburg · County fairDouglas County's four-day August fair in Roseburg, Oregon, where a logger named Dougy has greeted fairgoers at the main entrance since 1965 and the night concerts come with the gate.
- Gilliam County FairCondon, OR · County fairThe Gilliam County Fair runs three days each September on the county fairgrounds in Condon, Oregon; its first edition was held in Mayville, now a ghost town on Route 19.
- Grant County FairJohn Day · County fairThe Grant County Fair, held in John Day since October 1909, where in 2026 a youth livestock auction in the Heritage Barn passed $700,000 in four days of fair.
- Harney County Fair & RodeoBurns, OR · County fair and rodeoThe Harney County Fair & Rodeo in Burns, Oregon, held the week after Labor Day, marks the end of the hay harvest with 4-H stock, an NPRA rodeo, and a Queen's Race.
- Hood River County FairHood River, OR · County fairThe Hood River County Fair, a four-day July fair on Wyeast Road near Odell, Oregon, where 4-H livestock were once penned beneath a high school grandstand.
- Jackson County FairCentral Point · County fairThe Jackson County Fair, held each July at The Expo in Central Point, Oregon, traces to an 1859 Agricultural Show in Jacksonville, where a Talent man's grape took a blue ribbon.
- Jefferson County FairMadras · County fair and rodeoJefferson County's free fair and NPRA rodeo in Madras, Oregon, held in late July since 1931, which in 2026 lost its carnival one month before opening.
- Josephine County FairGrants Pass · County fairThe Josephine County Fair runs five August days on fairgrounds south of Grants Pass, Oregon, where a racetrack, a blackberry gully turned arena, and 1920s buildings still stand.
- Klamath County FairKlamath Falls · County fairKlamath Falls, Oregon's county fair, first held in 1902, fills a former South Sixth Street farm for four summer days of livestock barns, mutton bustin', and demolition derby.
- Lake County FairLakeview · County fair & roundupThe Lake County Fair & Round-Up in Lakeview, Oregon, is a Labor Day fair and PRCA rodeo first held in September 1920 and run, its promoters say, without a paid hand.
- Lane County FairEugene · County fairThe Lane County Fair fills the fairgrounds on West 13th Avenue in Eugene, Oregon, each July, and traces its exhibitions to an 1858 showing of fruit, grain, and livestock.
- Lincoln County FairNewport, Oregon · RodeoThe Lincoln County Fair in Newport, Oregon, a three-day July fair begun in 1908, with an NPRA rodeo, camel rides, and a fairgrounds being rebuilt around it.
- Linn County FairAlbany, OR · County fairLinn County's three-day July fair at the Fair & Expo Center in Albany, Oregon, where county commissioners dish ice cream for seniors before the Thursday-night rodeo.
- Malheur County Fair & RodeoOntario · County fair and rodeoMalheur County's summer fair and rodeo on Ontario's NW 9th Street, begun in 1909 as the Ontario Corn Festival, now with camels in the Dairy Arena and an NPRA rodeo.
- Marion County FairSalem · County fairMarion County's four-day July fair at the Oregon State Fair & Expo Center in Salem, first held October 11, 1854, and older than the state fair it shares grounds with.
- Morrow County FairHeppner · County fair & rodeoMorrow County's free August fair in Heppner, Oregon, held since 1912, where 170 young exhibitors sold animals for more than $1.1 million at the 2025 youth auction.
- Multnomah County FairPortland, OR · County fairMultnomah County's fair, begun by Gresham granges more than a century ago, now runs three days each late May inside Portland's Oaks Amusement Park, staged entirely by volunteers.
- Oregon State FairSalem · State fairOregon's state fair, held at Salem since 1862: eleven days of barns, midway and concerts ending on Labor Day, beside a 1919 horse stadium still in use.
- Philomath Frolic & RodeoPhilomath · RodeoA three-night professional rodeo and timber-town celebration in Philomath, Oregon, held since 1953, where children wade a pool to catch rainbow trout with their bare hands.
- Polk County FairRickreall · FairgroundThe Polk County Fair has run each August on 20 acres at Rickreall, Oregon, since 1953, and its grounds close at the end of 2026 unless voters pass a levy.
- Sherman County FairMoro · County fairSherman County's late-August fair on the hill above Moro, Oregon, held since 1909, where the barns and scales give way to a Friday rodeo and Saturday demolition derby.
- Tillamook County FairTillamook · County fairTillamook County's August fair, first held in 1891 and on its grounds east of town since 1925, where drivers race stripped Model T Fords holding live piglets.
- Umatilla County FairHermiston · County fairThe Umatilla County Fair, held each August in Hermiston, Oregon, grew from a one-day 1913 Dairy Show whose milking contest paid a prize of $17.50.
- Union County FairLa Grande · Performance & event venueThe Union County Fair in La Grande, Oregon, traces to an 1872 meeting in Cove; in 2026, after more than thirty years of trying, its fairgrounds restrooms flushed.
- Wallowa County FairEnterprise · County fairThe Wallowa County Fair in Enterprise, Oregon, held since 1907, offers junior rodeo, livestock barns, a fat stock sale, and Bessie Bingo, won on a cow's choice of square.
- Washington County FairHillsboro · County fairOregon's Washington County Fair, first held by Tualatin Valley settlers in 1854, runs ten summer days at Hillsboro's Westside Commons and has charged nothing at the gate since 2004.
- Wheeler County Fair & RodeoFossil · Wheeler county fair & rodeoThe Wheeler County Fair and Rodeo has run in Fossil, Oregon, in early August since 1914; its 2026 edition went on after the old grandstands came down.
- Yamhill County Fair & RodeoMcMinnville · Fair & rodeoThe Yamhill County Fair & Rodeo, four days each summer on the McMinnville fairgrounds, descends from an October 1854 gathering at Lafayette that the Oregon Historical Society names Oregon's first county fair.
Utah
- Beaver County FairMinersville · County fairBeaver County's August fair fills the fairgrounds on Highway 21, midway between Beaver and Minersville, Utah, and dates to a 1905 fair of farm and mining exhibits.
- Emery County FairCastle Dale · County fairThe Emery County Fair in Castle Dale, Utah, held since 1916, where two longhorns roam a numbered arena for $1,000 Cow Patty Bingo.
- Kane County FairKanab · County fairKane County's summer fair in southern Utah, grown from a 1940s high-school livestock show, where in 2026 a single hog was sold six times over for scholarships.
- Millard County FairDelta · County fairA free August county fair on the fairgrounds in Delta, Utah, which settled there in 1989, six years after flooding drove it from its old grounds at Deseret.
- Rich County Fair & RodeoRandolph · County fair and rodeoThe Rich County Fair & Rodeo fills six August days at the fairgrounds in Randolph, Utah, a grazing-county seat whose paper was promising a wild west rodeo by 1930.
- San Juan County FairMonticello · County fairSan Juan County's August fair at the Monticello fairgrounds opens with a mud bog, closes with a free youth rodeo, and dates its revival to 1949.
- Wayne County FairLoa · County fairThe Wayne County Fair, six August days in Loa, Utah, has been billed for generations as the Wayne County World's Fair and closes with a hometown rodeo and fireworks at dusk.
Washington
- Asotin County Fair & Hells Canyon RodeoAsotin · County fair with rodeoAsotin County's April fair and Hells Canyon Rodeo, held on the Anatone road outside Asotin, Washington, where 60 mutton busters ride a Saturday qualifier for ten championship places.
- Benton Franklin Fair & RodeoKennewick · Fair & rodeoThe Benton Franklin Fair & Rodeo fills the Benton County Fairgrounds in Kennewick, Washington, for five August days around the Horse Heaven Round-Up, a rodeo held since 1949.
- Castle Rock FairCastle Rock · Small community fairThe Castle Rock Fair in Castle Rock, Washington, is a three-day youth fair of 4-H and FFA animal shows, a rib cook-off, and a quarter arcade selling tickets three for a dollar.
- Central Washington State FairYakima · State fairThe Central Washington State Fair runs ten days each autumn on Yakima's original 1894 fairgrounds, where Kenworth riveted Army truck frames under the grandstand during World War II.
- Chelan County FairCashmere · County fairChelan County's four-day fair in Cashmere, Washington, held the weekend after Labor Day since 1952, with PRCA rodeo in the Cindy Fowler Memorial Arena and a corn stand from the first year.
- Clallam County FairPort Angeles · County fairA four-day August county fair west of Port Angeles, Washington, first held in 1895 while a Navy cruiser lay in the harbor and plum jelly took a diploma.
- Clark County FairRidgefield · County fairThe Clark County Fair, ten days each August on fairgrounds north of Vancouver at Ridgefield, Washington, first met in a Vancouver city park on October 21, 1868.
- Clayton Community FairClayton · Open class fairAn open-class country fair on 20 acres off Wallbridge Road near Clayton, Washington, started over by volunteers and draft horses after Deer Park redeveloped its old fairgrounds in 2005.
- Columbia County FairDayton · County fairThe Columbia County Fair in Dayton, Washington, held since 1888 on the weekend after Labor Day, where Sunday brings church in the Chicken Chapel and the Farmer Olympics.
- Cowlitz County FairLongview · County fairCowlitz County's free four-day July fair in Longview, Washington, where children pump water at a 19th-century log cabin between the carnival midway and the professional rodeo.
- Dayton DaysDayton · Rodeo and paradeDayton Days is the Memorial Day weekend rodeo and Main Street parade in Dayton, Washington, whose nonprofit board split in 2024 and staged rival rodeos in two counties.
- Evergreen State FairMonroe · County fairThe Evergreen State Fair, an eleven-day county fair at Monroe, Washington, traces itself to an 1874 display in a former Snohomish saloon and sells a blackberry float found nowhere else.
- Ferry County FairRepublic · County fairHeld on Labor Day weekend since 1941; steeped in legacy, good old-fashioned family fun
- Garfield County Fair & RodeoPomeroy · County fair and rodeoThree September days of livestock shows, exhibit halls and a Sunday rodeo at the Garfield County Fairgrounds in Pomeroy, Washington, where the rodeo card runs from mutton busting to wild cow milking.
- Grant County FairMoses Lake · County fairGrant County's late-summer fair on the north side of Moses Lake, Washington, where a World Famous Siphon Setting Contest shares the grounds with a history barn reaching back to 1911.
- Grays Harbor County FairElma · County fairGrays Harbor County's four-day summer fair in Elma, Washington, which has run in the same town since the Chehalis County Fair of the 1880s, its CCC-camp barns still in use.
- Hunters Community & 4-H FairHunters · Community fairA one-day community and 4-H fair in Hunters, Stevens County, Washington, running since 1910 or 1911 by differing accounts, where a chicken picks the bingo winner.
- Jefferson County FairPort Townsend · County fairThe Jefferson County Fair runs three August days at the fairgrounds in Port Townsend, Washington, where in 2026 a sixteen-year-old ran the poultry department.
- Kalama Community FairKalama · Community fairThe Kalama Community Fair fills Haydu Park in Kalama, Washington, for three days each July, and on coronation night it serves free strawberry shortcake in the Exhibit Hall.
- King County FairEnumclaw · County fairThe King County Fair is a four-day July fair in Enumclaw, Washington, dating to 1863, whose rodeo crowd sits in seats salvaged from Seattle's old Kingdome.
- Kitsap County Fair & StampedeBremerton · County fair with prca-sanctioned rodeoKitsap County's August fair in Bremerton, held since 1923, pairs 4-H barns with PRCA rodeo in Thunderbird Arena, an arena first financed with $1 stock certificates.
- Kittitas County FairEllensburg · County fairThe Kittitas County Fair in Ellensburg, first held in 1885 as part of a Civil War veterans' reunion, fills grounds that volunteers graded with horses and Fresno scrapers in 1923.
- Klickitat County FairGoldendale, WA · County fair and pro rodeoThe Klickitat County Fair and Rodeo, held the third weekend of August in Goldendale, Washington, began in 1881 with a pavilion, race course, and grandstand behind a high fence.
- Lacamas Community FairRoy · Community fairA two-day country fair at the Lacamas Community Center in Roy, Washington, held since 1929, where no admission has ever been charged and every entrant wins a ribbon.
- Lincoln County Fair & RodeoDavenport · County fair and rodeoThe Lincoln County Fair & Rodeo in Davenport, Washington, a three-day August fair whose first modern edition, in 1937, kept its livestock in a tent on Morgan Street.
- North Central Washington FairWaterville · Agricultural fairThe North Central Washington Fair, held each late August at the Douglas County Fairgrounds in Waterville, Washington, since 1889, pairs 4-H barns with Indian relay racing.
- Northeast Washington FairColville · FairThe Stevens County fair in Colville, Washington: four days of Tri-County 4-H, FFA and Grange exhibits, a one-mile Saturday parade, and roots traced back more than 120 years.
- Northwest Washington FairLynden · RodeoA ten-day August fair on Front Street in Lynden, Washington, begun as a 1909 produce fair, where the Whatcom County Dairy Wives sell the Moo-Wich.
- Okanogan County FairOkanogan · County fairA four-day September fair on 53 acres of county ground at Okanogan, Washington, where youth livestock and fur-and-feather sales at the 2026 edition set a record above $900,000.
- Othello FairOthello · FairA four-day September fair and rodeo in Othello, Washington, that began as a picnic-basket gathering and spent fourteen years sharing Adams County with a fair in Ritzville.
- Pacific County FairMenlo, WA · County fairPacific County's fair, held each August at the Menlo fairgrounds east of Raymond since 1921, whose first edition in 1896 showed a starfish and an 1,860-pound horse.
- Palouse Empire FairColfax · Agricultural fairWhitman County's four-day September agricultural fair, held since 1887 and on its own ground west of Colfax, Washington, since 1949, with a pink cow named Patience for its trademark.
- Pend Oreille County FairCusick, WA · County fairAnnual Pend Oreille County Fair and Rodeo held at the fairgrounds in Cusick, Washington
- Pierce County FairGraham · Traditional county fairPierce County's four-day August fair, held since 1968 in Frontier Park at Graham, Washington, one of only a few fairs in the state set in a park.
- San Juan County FairFriday HarborA county fair showcasing agriculture, the community and youth in an educational and entertaining environment
- SE Spokane County FairRockford · County fairA volunteer-run harvest fair in Rockford, Washington, held each September since 1943 by its own account, where admission is free and the Sunday program includes a spouse calling contest.
- Silvana Community FairSilvana · One-day community fairA one-day youth livestock fair held since 1947 in the hayfield behind Viking Hall in Silvana, Washington, where children 12 and under climb a greased pole at 12:15.
- Skagit County FairMount Vernon · FairThe Skagit County Fair runs four August days at the county fairgrounds in Mount Vernon, Washington, and its own organizers have counted its age from at least four different years.
- Skamania County Fair & Timber CarnivalStevenson · FairA free-gate county fair on Rock Creek in Stevenson, Washington, first held in 1908, where amateurs throw axes, roll logs, and pull the misery whip.
- Southwest Washington FairCentralia · Fair and rodeoThe Southwest Washington Fair, held each August on 78 acres at Centralia, is the only Washington fair created by an act of the Legislature to serve a six-county region.
- Spokane County Interstate FairSpokane Valley · Interstate fairSpokane County's ten-day September fair has been held since 1952 on 97 acres at Broadway and Havana in Spokane Valley, and it descends from an 1886 fair on a Corbin Park racetrack.
- Stanwood-Camano Community FairStanwood · Community fairA three-day agricultural fair on Pioneer Highway just south of Stanwood, Washington, begun as a Stillaguamish Grange harvest day in 1932 and still run almost entirely by volunteers.
- Thurston County FairLacey · County fairThe Thurston County Fair, held each summer at the county fairgrounds by Long Lake outside Lacey, Washington, dates to 1871, when Washington was still a territory.
- Valley Community FairValley · Community fairThe Valley Community Fair is a two-day August fair in a Stevens County, Washington, community of 149 that began in 1932 as a school function.
- Wahkiakum County FairSkamokawa Valley · FairThe Wahkiakum County Fair, held each August on the Skamokawa fairgrounds, where quilts, canning and homemade wine still go in at a T-Building raised in 1918 for $3,200.
- Walla Walla Fair & Frontier DaysWalla Walla · County fairThe county fair and PRCA rodeo held each September on Orchard Street in Walla Walla, Washington, recognized as the state's oldest fair, first staged on a horse-racing track in 1866.
- West Valley Community FairYakima · 4-h and FFA eventCommunity learning experience for the youth of the area in the fields of Home Economics, Still Life, and Agriculture.
- Western Rodeo Parade and Cattle DrivePuyallup · Rodeo parade and cattle driveEach September a herd of cattle walks down Meridian Street in downtown Puyallup, Washington, recalling the days when cowboys drove stock from train cars to the fair.
- Wheat Land Communities' FairRitzville · Community fair and rodeoThe Wheat Land Communities' Fair, each Labor Day weekend a mile north of downtown Ritzville, Washington, is a volunteer-run fair and rodeo built since 1981 without government money.
- Whidbey Island FairLangley · Old-fashioned country fairAn old-fashioned country fair of four July days in Langley, on Whidbey Island, held around a log-trussed Pole Building the WPA paid for in the 1930s.
- Yakima Valley Fair and RodeoGRANDVIEW · Fair and rodeoFour August days of youth livestock and PRCA rodeo in Grandview, Washington, which began in 1927 as a downtown Harvest Festival with a horse team pull.
Wyoming
- Albany County FairLaramie · County fairAlbany County's summer fair in Laramie, built around 4-H and FFA youth shows, where Guy Holt was photographed riding the bucking horse Steamboat in 1903.
- Big Horn County FairBasin · FairgroundThe Big Horn County Fair, dating from 1897 in Basin, Wyoming, put on its 2026 edition after a winter with no fair manager and no voting fair board.
- Campbell County FairGillette · Fair boardCampbell County's ten-day summer fair at Cam-plex in Gillette, Wyoming, is built around 4-H, FFA and open-class youth exhibitors and traces its start to a schoolhouse fair south of town.
- Carbon County FairRawlins · County fair and rodeoCarbon County's week-long fair and rodeo at the Rawlins fairgrounds, counted as the 100th in 2026, though a newspaper history dates the first fair to Saratoga in 1908.
- Central Wyoming FairCasper · Fair & PRCA rodeoThe Central Wyoming Fair & PRCA Rodeo fills Casper's fairgrounds each July, and among its barns and grandstand stands a white church first used for a wedding in 1891.
- Cheyenne Frontier DaysCheyenne · RodeoCheyenne Frontier Days, held in Cheyenne, Wyoming, every year since 1897, is ten days of rodeo, parades and night shows whose rodeo still starts with a cannon's boom.
- Cody Stampede RodeoCody · RodeoThe Cody Stampede, a Fourth of July rodeo and parade at Stampede Park in Cody, Wyoming, dating from 1919, with a smaller rodeo every summer night besides.
- Converse County FairDouglas · County fairConverse County's July fair, where 4-H and FFA youth show and sell livestock at the Wyoming State Fairgrounds in Douglas; in 1891 it met at Manville, with a wolf race.
- Crook County FairSundance · County fairCrook County's week-long summer fair in Sundance, Wyoming: livestock shows, rodeos, a Main Street parade, and a free pancake breakfast cooked by the county's elected officials.
- Fremont County FairRiverton · County fairThe Fremont County Fair in Riverton, Wyoming, first held with county support in 1902, pairs a week of youth livestock shows with evenings of powwow, ranch rodeo and figure 8 racing.
- Goshen County FairTorrington · Fair groundsThe Goshen County Fair fills late July and early August on a 40-acre fairgrounds at Torrington, Wyoming, where the gates are never locked because there are none.
- Hot Springs County FairThermopolis · County fairThe Hot Springs County Fair in Thermopolis, Wyoming, is held inside a rock wall the Works Progress Administration built, and its ranch rodeo includes wild cow milking.
- Johnson County FairBuffalo · FairgroundThe Johnson County Fair & Rodeo in Buffalo, Wyoming, first held in 1886 as the Territory's first fair, ran ten days in 2026 at the foot of the Big Horn Mountains.
- Lander Pioneer DaysLander · Annual july 4th celebrationLander, Wyoming's Fourth of July: a pageant parade down Main Street and a rodeo dated to Ed Farlow's 1894 paid show, both in their 132nd editions in 2026.
- Laramie County FairCheyenne · Performance & event venueWyoming's Oldest and Largest County Fair
- Laramie Jubilee Days RodeoLaramie · FestivalLaramie's nine-day July celebration of Wyoming statehood, held since 1940, where PRCA champions rope at the Albany County Fairgrounds and the first queen was elected by 25-cent ballot.
- Lincoln County FairAfton · Fair and rodeoThe Lincoln County Fair in Afton, Wyoming, first held in 1913, ends its week with a youth livestock sale and a PRCA rodeo, with rodeo queens riding since 1965.
- Niobrara County FairLusk · County fairThe Niobrara County Fair in Lusk, Wyoming, runs free breakfasts, youth livestock shows and a ranch rodeo; in 1946 it staged the first Legend of Rawhide pageant.
- Park County FairPowell · FairgroundThe Park County Fair, held the last full week of July on the fairgrounds in Powell, Wyoming, marked a century in 2026 on ground Congress patented for it in 1926.
- Platte County FairWheatland · County fair and rodeoThe Platte County Fair & Rodeo in Wheatland, Wyoming, a summer county fair begun in 1911, whose ranch rodeo sets local teams to branding, cow milking and trailer loading.
- Sheridan County FairSheridan · Annual county fairTo economically develop, maintain, and manage the fairground facilities for the benefit of the public which are safe convenient, and provide diverse educational and recreational opportunities in an attractive environment. Further, it is our mission and responsibility to produce and manage an annual county fair for the benefit and enjoyment of the citizens and to promote the achievements of young people engaged in 4-H and FFA activities.
- Sheridan WYO RodeoSheridan · PRCA rodeoSheridan, Wyoming's mid-July PRCA rodeo, first held in 1931, where Indian relay teams race every night and a Crow barrel racer's 1951 crowning helped bring down the town's anti-Indian signs.
- Sublette County FairBig Piney · WholesomeSublette County's late-July fair, held on 80 acres at Marbleton, Wyoming, counts as its forerunner a 4-H livestock sale held in a log hall with straw on the floor.
- Sweetwater County FairRock Springs · FairgroundWyoming's Big Show, the Sweetwater County Fair north of Rock Springs, grew from a 1914 Eden Valley harvest day into a week of livestock, carnival rides, and free nightly concerts.
- Teton County FairJackson · FairTeton County's summer fair in Jackson, Wyoming, held each July on a rodeo ground at the foot of Snow King Mountain that has hosted rodeos since 1945.
- Uinta County FairEvanston · County fairThe Uinta County Fair runs ten days each summer on the Evanston, Wyoming, fairgrounds, where the 2026 grandstand went from demolition derby to monster trucks to armored knights on horseback.
- Washakie County FairWorland · FairWe would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the sponsors, advertisers, work crews & volunteers, but most of all you, the participant, for helping to make the Washakie County Fair the tremendous success that it is.
- Weston County FairNewcastle · County fairA week-long county fair on the southern edge of Newcastle, Wyoming, held on ground Nebraska brothers gave in 1935 and closing each summer with a Sunday junior rodeo.
- Woodchoppers Jamboree & RodeoEncampment · Annual timber and ranching heritage weekend with lumbering competition events and traditional western rodeoSince 1961 the Lions Club in Encampment, Wyoming, has spent Father's Day weekend on loggers' contests in the morning and a rodeo in the same arena after lunch.
- Wyoming State FairDouglas · State fair and rodeoWyoming's state fair, held at Douglas since 1905 on grounds beside the Platte River, where Black Elk once conducted the reburial of a Lakota man.
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