Logan County • Crook, Fleming, Illiff, Merino, Peetz, Sterling
Sterling where it’s at for rodeos
Logan County Fair week boasts four rodeo events
tie-down, breakaway, ribbon and team roping and barrel racing. In the afternoon is an open team-roping competition that sees hundreds of teams competing.
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The PBR comes to town that week with an evening of bull riding, and the next day sees the 4-H/FFA Junior Rodeo, with youngsters riding and roping in some of the hottest competition.
f ropin’ and ridin’ are a couple of your favorite things, there are plenty of both during the summer in northeast Colorado. Many counties in the area hold a Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association-sanctioned rodeo during their county fairs. The hotspot for rodeo, however, is Sterling with no fewer than four rodeos scheduled during the Logan County Fair alone. In addition, the International Feedlot Cowboys Association will hold its team roping and barrel racing finals in Sterling for the fifth consecutive year in 2021. The IFCA is comprised of men
The last two days of the week are reserved for the pros when the Dick Stull Memorial PRCA Rodeo attracts pro rodeo athletes from all over the country. It’s a one goround rodeo split into two perforA bulldogger makes his move during a rodeo event at the Logan County Fair- mances and features saddle bronc and bareback bronc riding, tiegrounds in Sterling. (Jeff Rice/Journal-Advocate) down roping, breakaway roping, steer wrestling and bull riding. and women involved in the cattle ling. The week of the county fair feeding business, a big part of Col- starts with two ropings in one day. So if rodeo is your sport, Sterorado agricultural economy. In the morning is the Jim Mason ling is the place to be and summer Memorial Roping, which includes is the time to be here. Fair time is rodeo time in Ster-
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