I've lived in Denver my whole life, have always wanted to check out the frontier days. Such a tourist trap! There is nothing happening except for beer & rides. The concert at night wasn't worth the price, total let down! read more

My friend and I went to the Frontier Days for the 1st time this year (2011) and ABSOLUTELY LOVED IT! CANNOT WAIT TO GO BACK !!! EVERYTHING WAS AWESOME! Parking was a hassle but well worth it. we Did see a man come out of his garage n attack a young couple. No one was hurt n everyone went on about their business. We took an alternate route after that. read more

I had such a great time. I can hardly wait for next year. Going to CFD this year was a huge check mark on my bucket list. The concerts were great and the rodeo was fun to watch. Everything from the arena to the carnival area was very clean. There was a great selection of vendors and the food stands were equally great. CFD runs like a well oiled machine. The volunteers earned a huge applause. read more

Wonderful fair with a cheap admission price, if you're not planning on going to the concerts or the rodeo or ride any of the rides. $3.00 is the admission price, and only cash is accepted. As I was walking around, I saw plenty of vendors selling one thing or another, and the typical carnival attractions, plenty of good rides, and Minions! Minions as far as the eye could see to be won in every carnival attraction! I saw the fair as a five star event, however, I had to deduct a star for the parking situation and the lack of drinking fountains. I only saw one drinking fountain, and it was in the Indian Village area between the men's and women's restrooms. For the parking situation, there is on-site parking, but it will fill up quickly, leaving the other options to park you car, such as the park across the street or curbside parking where it is permitted. Once those options fill up, there are several of the nearby neighbors hawking space on their driveways for $20 a car. They need to construct additional parking so those that are attending this annual event don't have to walk great distances to get in. read more

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Came up from CO to experience this. We did a trolley tour of downtown Cheyenne and did some tchotchke shopping. Glad we went.

Always been one of the great rodeos nationwide for long as I can remember. I have competed in this arena myself in years past. Quite a few years past. Members of other family doing same in past. A longtime cowboy favorite stop during the year. They keep finding space to expand which was badly needed for many years. Crowded conditions for the competitors and their horses but they make it work. The cowboy way. read more

I located the festival on-line, timed right with my trip out west. Great site thru their Chamber of Commerce (without costs attached til late). Very large event for a small town of 53,000. Costs were reasonable-$10/daily parking, refunded if you left by 11 a.m. Great Old West Museum on-site, $8 included quality art show with many talented artists. The friendliest people at the rodeo were the workers in the museum/gallery. Big midway. a lot of complex start and stop times for different events (Gulch of shops, Indian Village, rodeos, tours, museums) but if you hunt and peck you can fill your day. I enjoyed the Christian Cowboys Sunday fellowship service. Sponsor and shop booths opened too late for my early visits. Lots of "name" bands at nite concerts--George Strait, Sawyer Brown ($23), etc. I also enjoyed the off-site tour of Warren AFB. I did find it difficult to find people who worked Frontier Days, to help guide me (without a ton of walking). Many things free but hard to know costs (not published at all or til late). read more

We had a great time at the Frontier Days general admission area. The beer garden was great and they had live music which was awesome! We bough tickets to the concert for that night and we were seated in the stands. Besides there being a pole slightly obstructing our view we were happy with out seats. HOWEVER, once the show started the ushers came around and told everyone they had to sit down and that they could not stand up or dance during the concert. They told us that everyone in the seats had purchased tickets where no standing was permitted. It was very strange to be at a concert and look around and see everyone seated just staring at the stage. We were severely disappointed and wished that this would be been made clear to us when we purchased the tickets. If we had known we would have opted to buy tickets on the "floor" or not buy tickets at all. We had driven up from Denver and paid over $300.00 for a hotel room for the night so we made the best of it. The show was still amazing however I would not recommend this venue for anyone who likes to dance! We have been to the Greeley stampede and had a MUCH better experience and the tickets were cheaper as well. I do not recommend concerts at Cheyenne Frontier Days to anyone. read more

1 Star is too generous. This event is so poorly organized. The parking lot attendants were literally jumping in front of cars to stop them while drinking beer! The attendants doing this were clearly not in a clear state of mind. Basically this event is organized and run by rednecks. This was our first time attending this event and will be our last and we hope to keep any readers of this review from wasting their time on this subpar, maybe county fair equivalent event (possibly too generous there). Midway food was not freshly prepared and despite expensive prices came out luke warm. There was no country music playing anywhere - and we were there on opening day! We even checked the saloon tent - during "Happy Hour", hoping for something going on, maybe even some music wired in if there was no live band, but no, no music! Overall a lame event. Not returning to Cheyenne after this poor first time experience except to pass through to go to more worthwhile places. read more

Just returned from CFD (7/22/13) and after having read a lot of hype about the event before we left, other than the Alan Jackson concert (terrific!), we left Cheyenne less than impressed. We have attended rodeos/state/county fairs in ND, SD, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Arizona, Nevada and California. We have attend PBR events in Albuquerque, Springfield, Tulsa and have attended the world finals in Las Vegas for the past 4 years. CFD is BY FAR wayyyyyy at the bottom of the list. 1. Not enough bathrooms and the few available were old, rundown, and dirty. Paint is pretty cheap. Replace a few toilet seats, replace toilet partitions that have holes drilled in them and replace locks, clean the bathrooms on a regular basis. That would be a start. 2. Shoddy, expensive souvenirs (can't call them arts and crafts; no art, no craft) in the exhibit hall and under the grandstands. Certainly not anything interesting unless you were specifically looking for a "I'm Grandma's Little Cowboy" t-shirt. Lots of them. 3. Ugly, grim "arena". More like a parking lot from an abandoned K-Mart covered with dirt and converted into a "rodeo arena". I've seen nicer arenas in farmers fields at county fairs. One half of the "race track" runs BEHIND a grandstand. I guess that is why they will sell you a ticket BEHIND a support beam for $58.00. You can also tell the announcer that the show was on the arena floor, not on his mispronounced dialogue or the cute kiddies racing on broomstick "ponies". He actually missed some pretty good action while he went on and on with some visiting politico. 4. A midway that bored three 12 year old boys after 30 minutes. Nuff' said. 5. Food. No variety. Same old turkey legs, corn dogs, burgers, hotdogs. If you want to see a good variety of tasty, affordable food, try looking at the Texas State Fair. To be honest I did have a corn dog.....OK, two. Pretty good. 6. Drink (adult): Coors, maybe Bud. didn't notice, Hard Cider, Blue Moon, Fat Tire all in cans. No tap, no wine, no mixed drinks. More beer variety at Rockies games and it's named COORS FIELD! 7. Probably can't enforce this but maybe a little education will help. Post some signs that says, "It is NEVER OK to SPIT on the ground in public". I understand that some people like to enjoy a chew. No problem. I do not however, want to navigate around their dip spit laying on the ground in almost in every concession line. 8. If this is the "Grandaddy of them all", I think Grandma might be looking for a new cowboy. In general, except for the concert, CFD was a massive disappointment. Cheyenne should thank God that there are no Indian Casinos within a hundred miles that offer top entertainment. Otherwise, they would have nothing. read more

Who doesn't love Cheyenne Frontier Days? Lots of fun!! Wish they had wine but still had a great time! Parking is tough so make sure you get there early enough to find parking. read more

A disappointment! This was our first time at the Cheyenne Frontier Days and we were really looking forward to this event since we enjoyed the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo many years ago. We went on Wednesday to see the airshow and rodeo.The airshow took place on the local community college campus. It was supposed to start at 9:30am so we left the Denver area at 7am. The airshow was an hour late and started at 10:30am. It was a grey cloudy day so maybe they were waiting for the skies to clear. There was no loudspeaker system to let us know the status of the air show so the crowd just waited. The skies never did clear so maybe that affected the performance but it seemed lackluster compared to other air shows. There was no announcer where we stood (two buildings south of the health sciences building on the community college campus) so there was no description of the show or announcement when it was finished. We were not quite sure if the show was finished so we waited some more until it became clear that the show was over. It took us an hour to get out of the parking lot at the community college. This meant that we would be late for the rodeo so we cancelled our plans to go to the rodeo. Thank heaven we did not get tickets in advance. We did visit the area where the rodeo and frontier days display is held. It seems to be located in a residential area near a park. We found parking close to the Indian Village entrance so we visited this site first. It is basically a retail area! Vendors had booths or were set up in buildings to sell items such as jewelry, pottery, fur (PETA alert), leather goods and food. There was a man playing a flute under a tent covered gazebo in the middle of this site. Not too many people were seated and listening. On our return we stopped at the "Indian Village" again to get water from the fountain near the restrooms. They were just finishing up with a native American dance. The dancers were dressed in costumes that included fake pink, blue, and yellow feathers. It was nothing like the beautiful Native American costumes that I have seen elsewhere. On our walk toward the "frontier town" we passed chuck wagons that were somewhat interesting but there was no activity to watch here. These beautifully outfitted wagons were also surrounded by vendors selling cowboy hats, jewelry, etc. so they seemed a bit out of place. The "frontier town" is just a row of buildings along a sidewalk that vendors obviously rent to sell more of the same....jewelry, cowboy hats, oh and also 'antiques' and western 'sculptures' for $20.00. We thought about visiting the museum but $10 to see items displayed in a cement floored one room warehouse type building was a bit steep. We peeked through the fence at the back of the rodeo. It appeared to be run by a rodeo show company. We saw horses being led away and lots of cattle in a pen. All in all this was not worth the drive from Denver. Save your money and go to another show. read more