{"id":47665,"date":"2021-03-31T01:23:56","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T01:23:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/rodeo-series-returns-to-montezuma-county-fairgrounds\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T09:39:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:39:43","slug":"rodeo-series-returns-to-montezuma-county-fairgrounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/rodeo-series-returns-to-montezuma-county-fairgrounds\/","title":{"rendered":"Rodeo series returns to Montezuma County Fairgrounds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=f5d47b7e-eb45-4cd8-b6f0-b91effbed730&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1395\" height=\"1600\" alt=\"Rodeo events are planned for the Montezuma County Fairgrounds this spring and summer.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Rodeo events are planned for the Montezuma County Fairgrounds this spring and summer.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">The Journal file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The True Western Roundup rodeo series will return to the Montezuma County Fairgrounds for a second consecutive year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe has such a warm welcome last year in Cortez, we want to make it a regular event,\u201d producer Pam Petrie said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The traditional rodeo series in Cortez kicks off May 15 with a junior rodeo. Adult rodeos are scheduled for June 19, July 3, July 24, July 31, Aug. 21, Sept. 18, and Oct. 9, which will be an all-women\u2019s rodeo that includes a benefit to fight cancer.<\/p>\n<p>The July 3 rodeo includes a Freedom Day celebration featuring local bands, a car race, fireworks and vendors. Local bands Vanishing Breed and Flashback will perform.<\/p>\n<p>At the La Plata County Fairgrounds, the organization plans rodeos June 2, 9, 16, 23, 30, and for July 7, 14, 21 and 28.<\/p>\n<p>The True Western Roundup rodeo series feature all the classics, including saddle bronc riding, ranch bronc riding, breakaway roping, mutton busting, steer riding, barrel racing, team roping and bull riding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re all about preserving Western heritage with traditional cowboy events and Wild West entertainment,\u201d Petrie said. \u201cWe are so proud to bring this rodeo to Cortez.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Durango-based group started putting on local rodeos in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, to become a sponsor, buy tickets or to sign up to compete in a rodeo event, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/truewesternroundup.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">truewestroundup.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Western Roundup events includes Freedom Day celebration July 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,13,28,29,937],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-47665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter","tag-rodeo"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87228,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47665\/revisions\/87228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47665"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=47665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}