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