Raw States
Helotes Cornyval & PRCA Rodeo
Helotes, TX · Festival
- When
- April 29 – May 2, 2027
- Where
- Helotes Festival Grounds, Old Bandera Rd · Helotes · TX
- Cost
- Not confirmed
- Status
- Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet
A four-day spring festival and PRCA rodeo at the Helotes Festival Grounds northwest of San Antonio, running since the mid-1960s. It combines a professional rodeo with a carnival, live music, and food vendors and draws roughly 100,000 visitors, making 2026 its 61st year.
The history within reach
- Helotes Cornyval & PRCA Rodeosame spot
A four-day spring festival and PRCA rodeo at the Helotes Festival Grounds northwest of San Antonio, running since the mid-1960s.
Twelve thousand Mexican American shellers, mostly women earning about two cents a pound, walked out under Emma Tenayuca, a 21-year-old organiser the police arrested repeatedly and tear-gassed.
Every enlisted airman in the United States Air Force since 1946 has done basic training here, around seven million people have passed through one installation, which is why so many of them settled in San Antonio afterwards..
Billed as the longest-running conjunto and accordion music festival in the world, presented by the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center at Rosedale Park since 1982.
A Spanish expedition camped at the springs the Payaya called Yanaguana on the feast of Saint Anthony and renamed the river for him.