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2025 TUCSON RODEO PARADE ENTRY APPLICATIONS
October 9, 2024 - January 10, 2025
Applications for entries in the 2025 Centennial Tucson Rodeo Parade are now open online at www.tucsonrodeoparade.org. Applications will close at 5 p.m. January 10, 2025.
The Tucson Rodeo Parade is one of the longest non-motorized parades in the world and a 100-year Tucson tradition bringing the vibrant history and colors of the Southwest to life each February in conjunction with La Fiesta de los Vaqueros, the Tucson Rodeo.
An average of 150,000 spectators line the streets in southern Tucson in anticipation of the parade. The 100th Annual Parada de los Vaqueros, the Tucson Rodeo Parade, will take place on Thursday, February 20, 2025.
Included in the procession will be local and national dignitaries, Native American royalty and performers, historical wagons and colorful floats, marching bands and mariachis, rodeo royalty working cowboys. In all, the parade features over 135 entries – consisting of over 550 horses, approximately 2,200 people, 90 wagons and buggies and 10 marching bands
Continuing the tradition of no motorized entries, the entire parade is propelled by real horsepower.
Entries compete in 21 prize classes ranging from Western Riding Groups and Historical to Most Comical and Multiple-team Hitch. There are three special awards: The Curt Sullivan Sweepstakes award (overall best entry) the Chairman’s Award and the Judge’s Award; and two special band awards named after past Parade Committee members, the Paul Grimes award (Outstanding music performance) and the Bucky Steele award (Outstanding marching performance).
2025 Tucson Rodeo Parade Applications Open
WHEN: 9 AM, Thursday, February 20, 2025
WHERE: The parade route will begin at South 12th Avenue and Drexel Road, proceed East on Drexel to Old Nogales Highway, then turn North, ending at Irvington Road. The route is approximately 2.5 miles in length.
Parking is available to the public on Drexel Road adjacent to the grandstands Tucson Rodeo Grounds before 8 a.m., when Tucson Police close down the streets to accommodate the Tucson Rodeo Parade.
COST: The parade is FREE to spectators along most of its route. Ticketed grandstand seating that includes pre-parade entertainment is also available on Drexel Road. Grandstand tickets, available online at www.tucsonrodeoparade.org, are $15 each for adults and $10 for children ages 12 and under.
PUBLIC CONTACT: Call 520-294-1280 or visit www.tucsonrodeoparade.org for more information.