Best Rodeos & Fairs Festivals 2026

44 festivals. Every US rodeos & fairs festival, with confirmed dates, current ticket prices, lineups, camping info and clear updates on what's actually happening.

A rodeo or a state fair is not priced like a music festival, and that is the first thing to know. Getting through the gate is one price, usually small: Cheyenne Frontier Days charges $5 to walk into Frontier Park, Fort Worth $15, the National Western Stock Show between $5 and $37 depending on the day. The rodeo performance, the grandstand concert and the carnival wristband are each a separate ticket on top, and a fair's concert package can cost ten times the gate. Our pages keep those layers apart so you can see what a day actually costs for the things you want to do.

The second thing is hours. State fairs run ten to twenty-four days and close at different times on weekdays, weekends and the final day; we list the organiser's own daily hours where they are published. The third is the calendar: Houston runs in March, Fort Worth and Denver in January, Cheyenne in late July, the big state fairs from August into October, and the National Finals Rodeo closes the year in Las Vegas in December. Most organisers publish next year's dates the day this year's event ends.

Rodeo events are listed by name as the organiser bills them: bull riding, bareback, saddle bronc, steer wrestling, tie-down and team roping, barrel racing, breakaway roping, mutton bustin' for the children. Where a fair has a livestock show, a carnival midway, signature foods or free and discount days (seniors, military, a food-bank donation at the gate), they are on the page because they change what a family pays and what a day looks like.

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