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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.

Activities Include:

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
Emergency preparedness for companion animals and livestock(or just say Arapahoe County
Animal Control)
Antique corn grinding
Pioneer laundry
Fit as a Feline
Arapahoe County Centennial Farms display
Barr Lake and Milton Reservoir Watershed Association and SPLASH

A detailed downloadable schedule will be available in July!

Homestead Contests

Friday Main Hall

1:30 Longest Potato Peel Contest
4:00 Pie Eating Contest

Saturday Main Hall

1:30 Longest Potato Peel Contest
2:00 Fastest Fingers in the West Contest (knitting and crochet)
3:00 Decorated cookie contest
4:00 Pie eating Contest

Sunday Main Hall

1:30 Longest Potato Peel Contest
2:00 Fastest Fingers in the West Contest (knitting and crochet)
3:00 Decorated Cookie Contest
Sunday The Homestead
5:00 Pie Eating Contest

SPECIAL EVENTS

Thursday Main Hall

4:30 Quilts of Valor presentation to veterans
5:30-8:00 Decorate a cookie

Friday Main Hall

11-2 Decorate a cookie
1:30 Longest Potato Peel Contest
4:00 Pie Eating Contest
5:00-8:00 Decorate cookie

Saturday Main Hall

12:00-3:00 Decorate a cookie
1:30 Longest Potato Peel Contest
2:00 Fastest Fingers in the West Contest (knitting, crochet)
3:00 Decorated Cookie Contest
4:00 Pie Eating Contest
5:00-8:00 Decorate a cookie

Saturday Exhibition Hall

11:00-5:00 Dinosaur Ridge activities
1:00-4:00 Make and launch alka-seltser rockets (north breezeway)
1:00 Growing Vegetables talk:Colorado Master Gardeners
2:00 Bee Engaged demonstration:Joe Komperda
3:00 Stories of the 17 Mile House talk:Karen Sear
4:00 Small space gardening talk:Colorado Master Gardeners

Sunday Main Hall

12:00-3:00 Decorate a cookie
1:30 Longest potato peel contest
2:00 Fastest fingers in the west contest (knitting, crochet)
3:00 Decorated cookie contest

Sunday Exhibition Hall

11:00-5:00 Dinosaur Ridge activities
1:00 Water-wise landscape talk:Colorado Master Gardeners
2:00 Bee Engaged demonstration:Joe Komperda
3:00 Raising backyard chickens demonstration:Anna Wilkowsky
4:00 Japanese beetles talk:Lisa Mason
5:00 Pie eating contest

Daily Make and Take

Leathercraft, Corn husk people, rope, macramé key chain, dream catcher, Ojo de Dios

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2019 Parking Pass

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July 25 - July 28, 2019 | 11:00 AM - 11:55 PM

Fair Parking is $10 daily for one (1) Automobile or Motorcycle. No RVs or Campers. Parking can also be purchased on site for $10 Cash Only.

2019 Full Price Ticket