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Lost Dutchman Days

Apache Junction, AZ · Sports

When

February 25–28, 2027

Where

Apache Junction Rodeo Park · Apache Junction · AZ

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Approximate: based on past editions, not announced yet

The Apache Junction Chamber of Commerce has run this PRCA rodeo and parade since 1965, named for the legendary lost gold mine in the nearby Superstition Mountains. The last full weekend of February brings a downtown parade, carnival and several nights of rodeo to the community.

The history within reach

• Lost Dutchman Dayssame spot

  The Apache Junction Chamber of Commerce has run this PRCA rodeo and parade since 1965, named for the legendary lost gold mine in the nearby Superstition Mountains.

• Goldfield ghost town3.0 mi

  A gold town that died twice as the ore played out, then was rebuilt in the 1980s as a tourist reconstruction on the original site at the foot of the Superstitions..

• Arizona Renaissance Festival6.5 mi

  This sixteenth-century themed village east of Apache Junction has staged a Renaissance faire since 1989, one of the largest and longest-running in the country.

• Dreamland Villa, one of Arizona's first retirement subdivisions10 mi

  Joe and Ross Farnsworth broke ground on the first section of Dreamland Villa in 1958 and opened it in January 1959, restricting it to buyers 55 and over.

• Falcon Field trains British RAF cadets in the Arizona desert11 mi

  Britain could not safely teach anyone to fly over Britain in 1941, so cadets were shipped to the Arizona desert instead.