Join your fellow campers for a community campfire, delicious ice cream and some serious story swapping of camping and RV life!  Fish tales, anyone?! 

Friday & Saturday evenings from 7:00 - 8:00 pm.  Huge scoops of ice cream for $1.00!

A fun day of games & activities, featuring the 2nd Annual Arkansas Valley International Fun! Mini-Golf Tournament, to benefit the Arkansas Valley Hospice.  Fun games for all ages, swimming, bounce castle, inflatable water slides, dog show, silent & live auctions, and more!

The 2nd Annual La Junta Mini Golf Tournament will be held on Saturday, June 23rd, 2018 starting at 9:00 a.m. - Noon at the La Junta KOA Campground. The tournament will be open to all ages and will include individual and team competitions & prizes. Get ready to have a ball! Sponsored by Campground Car Rentals.

Creepy.  Scary.  Spooky.  Screams.  Shrieks.  Yells!
Take a 20+ minute walk through a haunted campground with dinosaurs, coffins, pirates, zombies, monsters, skeletons, spiders, creepy little kids, chainsaws, fog (lots of fog!), and a hearse!
Thrills, chills & and a Halloween good time!
Be afraid.  Be very afraid!!

Support the Arkansas Valley High School Drama Clubs!

Friday & Saturday, October 19-20, 26-27 & Halloween Night, Wednesday, October 31st from 7:00 - 10:00 pm.

Witness the holiday pleasures and pastimes of the 1840s at an isolated trading post.  Period games, foods, and festivities will enliven the fort. On Saturday there will be toy making in the shops, wagon rides, pinata breaks, yule log hunt, period games, frontier cooking, and blacksmithing.  Candle light tours and Saturday daytime activities are available for your enjoyment.

Looking for something fun to do with the entire family? Come to Las Animas for the 83rd annual Santa Fe Trail Day events and the Boggsville tractor show!Costume contest, parade, May Day breakfast, Ranch Burger lunch, FFA plant sale, engine blow, golf tournament, chili dinner, Rocky Mountain Oyster Fry dinner, art show, antique tractor show & pull, wheel chair basketball, Huck Finn fishing derby, community concert, square dancing competition, and the Family Fun Entertainment event boasts a bouncy house, joust house, Velcro climbing wall, miniature train rides, slip and slide.  Many vendors will be present selling refreshments, chair massages, jewelry, T-shirts, personalized items, rock climbing wall, face painting and much more!

Get wet!  Get really wet!!  Parade entries soak the crowds lining the parade route, and the spectators soak them back!  Great fun in the sun in downtown La Junta!

In celebration of Independence Day, the city of La Junta will be lighting off fireworks! Be sure to join in the fun!

The Oldest Continuous Fair in the State of Colorado!

Arkansas Valley fair is entertainment for the whole family!  Every day events include entertainment pavilion, arts, crops, food and needlework exhibits. There are concession and craft vendor as well as evening dances and carnival!
Each day has a different theme such as: Silver Day, Kid's Day, Parade Day and Watermelon Day!  Check out the Demolition Derby!

The 30th Arkansas Valley Balloon Festival in Rocky Ford Colorado. Be sure to mark your calendars and check back for details as time gets closer. You can watch them set up, walk around, learn and visit. Just watch for the ropes, do not step over the ropes, and don't walk on the fabric of the balloon. Please be safe. Take pictures and have fun!

Balloon glow at 7:00 pm on Friday night, November 2nd, 2018.

The launch site for the hot air balloons on Saturday & Sunday, November 3-4, 2018 is 29625 Industrial Park Road, Rocky Ford, CO. From Second Street in Rocky Ford take Hwy 202 (Patterson Valley Road) West to Industrial Park Road. There will be signs pointing the way! Launch time is sunrise both days, about 6:25 a.m.

If you are a pilot interested in attending, send your inquiry to rockiesanders@hotmail.com.