Ticket Information:
June 12, 13 & 14. Tickets are availabe for purchase online! Thursday night is Family Night with special discounts on ticket prices. All seats for Friday and Saturday nights will be reserved seats. Advance sale tickets will be for sale online or at local walk in locations at a reduced price. Reserved parking will only be available through advance sales online or at the walk in locations.
The Ute Mountain Roundup’s heritage traces back to a rodeo that was started around the end of World War I. That rodeo was part of the county fair, held in September each year on what is now the football field at the Cortez Middle School, at the junction of highways 491 and 160. The rodeo was held there every year until 1930.
In 1930, the fair and the rodeo were moved to land on North Garfield Street that had been donated for that purpose to the American Legion. Shortly after that move, the rodeo was separated from the county fair and began to be held in June of each year. The rodeo became the Ute Mountain Roundup and was operated by the Cortez American Legion.
The rodeo was elevated to a higher level in * when it was first sanctioned by the Rodeo Cowboys Association, now known as the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA).
In December of 2005, the ground on which the Ute Mountain Roundup had been held for seventy five years was sold and so the Ute Mountain Roundup moved again. This time, the rodeo came under a new non-profit corporation, the Ute Mountain Roundup, Inc. This newly formed entity, with a board of local businesspersons and a committee of local rodeo fans, competitors, supporters and volunteers, moved the rodeo to the Montezuma County Fairgrounds.
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