Rides, Rodeos, and Household Fun: Your Information to the Colorado State Fair

Eleven days of carnival rides, rodeos, stay music, animals, truthful meals, and household enjoyable are headed to Pueblo. 

The Colorado State Fair returns Friday, Aug. 28, by way of Monday, Sept. 7, with loads of previous favorites, and a few particular additions, celebrating Colorado’s one hundred and fiftieth birthday and America’s 250th.

Here’s what it’s essential to know. 

What to Expect

At the Colorado State Fair, there’s one thing for everybody, each. single. day. From free attractions, youngsters actions, AgVenture Land, the carnival, free live shows, meals, livestock and rodeos, entries and displays, and particular occasions, there’s lots to maintain households and kiddos busy. 

With the acquisition of gate admission, households can get pleasure from:

• The Stilt Circus who might be strolling across the grounds
• Sandtastic sand sculptures
• The Great American Duck Race
• Mighty Mike as he juggles bowling balls and sledgehammers
• Agri-Golf’s nine-hole course
• The Great American Petting Farm
• Colorado Proud Farm Trail the place youngsters and adults can choose a Palisade peach, harvest a Pueblo chile, and dig for a San Luis Valley potato

And the Colorado State Fair has one thing for each music lover! Visit the schedule for a whole itemizing of stay music performances which can be free with gate admission. 

• Ian Munsick after the PRCA Rodeo on Aug. 28
• Dylan Scott after the rodeo on Aug. 29
• Neal McCoy after the rodeo on Aug. 30
• Jordan Davis, Sept. 4
• I Love the 90’s Tour that includes Vanilla Ice, Sept. 5
• The Fray, Sept. 6
• Celebración de los Charros, Sept. 6

Celebrate the Sesquisemiquincentennial

As everyone knows, this yr marks the one hundred and fiftieth of Colorado and the 250th of America, and there might be many ways to celebrate on the State Fair! 

Drone Show

The America 250–Colorado 150 Commission is taking its milestone celebrations to new heights with Stories within the Sky, a collection of practically 150 neighborhood drone reveals lighting up Colorado’s skies by way of December. 

One program, the “Stories in the Sky Statewide Series,” will deliver dazzling drone reveals to communities throughout Colorado, together with on the State Fair on Sept. 1, 3, and seven! 

Freedom Truck

Check out the museum on wheels! This touring exhibit is bringing the story of America’s founding on to communities throughout the nation, and might be open every day within the State Fair Plaza. 

Westernaires 250/150 Celebration Exhibition

Celebrate with the 250/150 Westernaires Exhibition within the Big R Arena on Sept. 1 at 7pm. The Westernaires is a mounted precision drill group composed of Denver-area children from 9-19 years of age. 

And extra!

Not desirous about any of these? Don’t fear, there’s lots extra to have fun the anniversaries. From the American Heroes Day and Rodeo to Fairitage Contests to the Colorado Fifty Artist Canvas “Quilt” Project and extra, there’s at all times a option to have fun our historical past. 

The History

The Colorado State Fair started on Oct. 9, 1872, held by the Southern Colorado Agricultural and Industrial Association. They first bought 50 acres of land for $3,000 in 1886 close to Mineral Palace Park. The truthful remained there till 1890, when the board moved the positioning to 100 acres of land situated west of Lake Minnequa. 

The truthful solely stayed there for 11 years earlier than it moved to its present-day website. The first construction on the positioning was the Mexican Pavilion, which then doubled because the police headquarters for the City of Pueblo. Fun reality, there are 14 buildings there all with historic significance! Today the State Fair resides on 102 acres of land that incorporates paved streets and spectacular landscaping. 

Your truthful, your heritage. For extra details about the truthful—parking, meals, the rest you’d must know to have a good time—head to the truthful web site at coloradostatefair.com.