Every year on the 4th of July weekend, Red Lodge is host to the Home of Champions Rodeo.

The event takes place over 3 days (July 2nd, 3rd and 4th) and every day is marked with a parade on main street.

This year will mark the Red Lodge Rodeo's 80th anniversary!  For more info on the rodeo (including events, parade, tickets and the history), you can visit www.redlodgerodeo.com  .

The following is a slide show of some of the photos I took in July 2008 of the parade and of the rodeo.

If you are planning to be in the Red Lodge area in early July, you do not want to miss this event!

It's Good to Be Here!!

Gerry Khatchikian, ASA, TRC (4 languages spoken: English, French, Spanish, Armenian)
Realtor Associate

ASA: Associate of the Society of Actuaries    TRC: Transnational Referral Certification

All photos and/or written content produced by Gerry Khatchikian. All rights reserved and may not be reproduced or reprinted without express written permission of Gerry Khatchikian, Realtor Associate.

 
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5 Comments on Red Lodge Rodeo of Champions and Parade

JUN
27
2009
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Sounds like a great weekend.
6:01pm • #1
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Gerry - Looks like you had a lot of fun last year at the Red Lodge rodeo.  Do visitors to the rodeo get branded?  When I went to the Calgary Stampede a number of years ago, the RCMP was branding everyone (well those who were willing to be branded including yours truly) in the Calgary airport.
6:48pm • #2
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Cindy,

I am looking forward to it, plus this year I get to go with my brother and two nieces.

 

Marc,

Lots and lots of fun!  Interesting that there is branding for the Calgary Stampede.  Must be a marketing stunt.  There is no such a thing at the Red Lodge Rodeo of Champions.
11:13pm • #3
JUL
01
2009

I've been to more rodeos than I care to count at this point in my life. Many of my friends at Texas A&M University were cowboys and I made the annual requisite trip to the Houston Rodeo to see all of their performances.
3:14am • #4
JUL
17
2009
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Russel,

Thanks for dropping by to comment.  It looks like the rodeo was always present in your younger years.  We get the rodeo in Red Lodge only once a year, hence it is something worth attending for new residents and tourists in town. 
11:17am • #5


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