Rodeos and county fairs in Washington
Rodeos and county fairs in Washington, each compiled from its own sources: dates, gate fees, and the arena. No ratings; every entry carries its status.
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- 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.
Fairs & Rodeos in all eleven states; next door in Idaho and Oregon.