A run of more than 30 rodeos and millions of dollars in prize money has already gotten underway as PRCA athletes have begun criss-crossing the country as part of Cowboy Christmas.
The Greeley Stampede, which began as a tribute to potato farmers more than 100 years ago, continues through June 30 and marks an unofficial beginning of the hectic Fourth of July stretch.
The Cowboy Channel will also be broadcasting every round of the St. Paul Rodeo in Oregon and the Cody Stampede in Wyoming. Both rodeos will take place June 30-July 4.
St. Paul has a population of just 425 people, however, the arena seats 10,000. That unique rodeo will be announced by our own Justin McKee and it paid $375,000 in 2019, making it one of the Top 10 paying rodeos in the country.
The Cody Stampede is the main event of the year for a community immersed in rodeo. There are nightly rodeos in Cody throughout the summer, but the big money comes at the beginning of July. Cody is one of the longest running professional rodeos over the 4th and paid close to $300,000 in 2020.
Departing Cody also makes for a beautiful drive to some of the other rodeos during Cowboy Christmas, including the Black Hills Roundup and Sitting Bull Stampede in South Dakota as well as the Prescott Frontier Days in Arizona. All three of those rodeos are streaming live on The Cowboy Channel+ app.
If you miss any of these performances, you can watch it anytime on-demand with an annual subscription to Cowboy Channel+ (which, in addition to on-demand programming, features live streams of multiple rodeos as they take place simultaneously across the country throughout the year and slack rounds all year long, as well as a streaming pass for the 2021 National Finals Rodeo.)