Visit the Homestead for hands-on activities, demonstrations, make and take projects by community groups emphasizing our western, agriculture heritage. Milk June the “Cow”, meet alpacas, take a “Settler Selfie” at the Conestoga wagon, decorate a cookie, and sew a quilt block for a veteran. Touch animal skins, make rope, and peddle a toddler vehicle. Admire prize winning flowers and vegetables grown by Colorado residents and have your gardening questions answered by the experts.
A detailed downloadable schedule will be available in 2021!All Homestead activities are included within General Admission ticket.
Click here for TicketsHomestead is located inside the Exhibition Hall, inside the Fair gates.
Click here for Event MapActivities Include:
- Youth Scavenger Hunt
- Smoky Hill Quilters
- Speed Piecing Techniques for Quilters
- History and Wildlife of the Wild West
- Denver Botanic Gardens at the Plains Conservation Center
- Milk June the Cow
- Settler Selfies with the Conestoga Wagon
- Pioneer Laundry
- Toddler Vehicles
- Meet and Take Selfies with Alpacas
- Basket Making
- Dye Natural Fibers Activity
- Weaving and Spinning demonstrations
- Colorado Beef Council
- Bee Crafts
- Backyard Bass Fishing
- Guess the Antique
- Pioneer Crafts
- South Metro Fire Department
- Arapahoe County Sustainability
- Arapahoe County Animal Control
- Antique Corn Grinding
- Fit as a Feline
- Arapahoe County Centennial Farms display
- Barr Lake and Milton Reservoir Watershed Association and SPLASH
- Rope a Steer
- Pack Your Trunks for a Pioneer Journey
- Dinosaur Ridge
- Highline Canal Conservancy
- ECCV Water & Sanitation District
- I-70 Corridor Chamber of Commerce
- Make and Take Contests and more!
- Contests: Longest Potato Peel, Pie Eating, Fastest Fingers in the West, Cookie Decorating