Cheyenne Frontier Days rodeo (the daddy of em all)
— — the last full week of July, every year since 1897.
Not only on a wall.
“The last full week of July, Cheyenne turns over to the rodeo. The grounds at Frontier Park on the north side of town fill with the bucking-stock pens, the carnival on the midway, the Indian Village, and an arena that seats about nineteen thousand. The first Frontier Days ran in 1897, a single-day event meant to keep cowhands in town after the fall round-up; the run has not been broken in more than a hundred and twenty years. Locals call it the Daddy of 'em All. Pancakes are free at the depot on weekday mornings. from the studio
Cheyenne Frontier Days rodeo (the daddy of em all), on ceramic.
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Cheyenne Frontier Days runs at Frontier Park, a fairgrounds complex on the north side of Cheyenne, Wyoming, anchored by Frontier Park Arena and the adjoining Old West Museum. The first event was held in September 1897 as a one-day rodeo organised by the Union Pacific to draw passenger traffic; the dates moved to the last full week of July in the early 1900s and have held ever since. The 2024 run drew about two hundred and twenty thousand visitors over ten days, with nine rodeo performances, nine night-show concerts, four parades, and the free Cheyenne Depot pancake breakfast on three weekday mornings.
The rodeo is the largest outdoor PRCA event in the world, with a total payout above a million and a half dollars across bareback, saddle bronc, bull riding, steer wrestling, tie-down roping, team roping, barrel racing, and steer roping. The arena seats roughly nineteen thousand. The Grand Parade rolls through downtown four mornings during the run, featuring restored stagecoaches from the museum collection. The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds have flown the opening of Frontier Days more than two dozen times. Headline concerts on the night-show stage have included George Strait, Garth Brooks, and Reba McEntire in recent decades.
Tickets for the daily rodeo start around twenty dollars in the upper levels and rise into the hundreds for the chute seats; night-show concerts are priced separately. Free admission events include the four Grand Parades through downtown and the pancake breakfasts at the Cheyenne Depot Plaza on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings, which serve roughly one hundred thousand pancakes across the three days. Frontier Park is reached by I-25 exit twelve and has paid lot parking plus shuttles from off-site lots. The Old West Museum on the grounds is open year round.