Disability Awareness Day at
Arapahoe County Fair 2025
Disability Awareness Day at
Arapahoe County Fair 2025
This wonderful event pairs volunteers with children and their partners (adults with disabilities welcome too - see note below) participants in an adaptive rodeo event. Together the kids, cowboys, and cowgirls will work through a series of modified rodeo events.
There will be:
- “bull riding” and “bareback bronc riding” on hand-rocked animals
- “steer roping” with dummy steers
- “steer wrestling” and “barrel racing” on giant stick horses
- If you'd like to learn more click here for a news article on the Exceptional Rodeo: https://source.colostate.edu/exceptional-rodeo/
Each child participant will receive their own cowboy hat and t-shirt. Children and their ProRodeo partners will have their pictures taken and exchange autographs while the announcer provides live-action commentary from the arena floor. As the children and their ProRodeo partners finish up, each pair will be introduced, and each participant will receive their own trophy.
* Adults/older children with intellectual and developmental disabilities are welcome to participate, but please note that the Exceptional Rodeo is traditionally focused more on elementary-aged youth, because of the size and weight requirements of our equipment. We will do our best to include individuals of all ages and sizes.
Event Details:
- Date: July 25, 2025
- Time: Doors open at 9:30am, Event starts at 10:00am
- Address: 25690 E Quincy Ave, Aurora, CO 80016
Please note that each individual participating in Disability Awareness Day will need to be an active Developmental Pathways member in services AND complete this form/their own RSVP for waiver and tracking purposes.
This is a ticketed event. Tickets will be given at the door for registered participants and their support staff.
Contact dpevents@dpcolo.org with questions.