El Paso County Fair
Calhan, CO · Festival
- When
- July 10–17, 2027
- Where
- El Paso County Fair and Events Complex, 355 10th St · Calhan · CO
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet
A week-long county fair at the El Paso County Fair and Events Complex in Calhan, east of Colorado Springs, with 4-H livestock shows, a rodeo, a demolition derby, and carnival rides. The fair has run for more than 120 years as the county's agricultural showcase. It draws roughly 25,000 visitors from the rural plains east of the city.
The history within reach
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A week-long county fair at the El Paso County Fair and Events Complex in Calhan, east of Colorado Springs, with 4-H livestock shows, a rodeo, a demolition derby, and carnival rides.
Fifteen buildings on giant steel springs inside a granite mountain, behind blast doors weighing twenty-five tons, built to keep tracking Soviet missiles after a near miss.
The center was set up in 1949 to teach farmers and ranchers about soil erosion and water on the dry plains, and it opened to the public in 1952.
Farm children in this corner of Arapahoe County learned in one room here from 1922.
On 12 May 2021 a Key Lime Air cargo Metroliner and a privately flown Cirrus SR22 hit each other in the air on approach to Centennial Airport.