The Ridgway Old West Fest for 2020 is cancelled, stay tuned for 2021!
The Ridgway Western Heritage Society is cancelling this year’s Old West Fest due to uncertainties surrounding the pandemic.
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This year's event has been cancelled!
This year's event has been cancelled!
This year's event has been cancelled!
The second annual
Ridgway Old West Fest
for Sept 2020 has unfortunately been cancelled. Stay tuned for the 2021 festival.
“The festival has a number of events held at various locations including a concert, movies, demonstrations and presentations. These activities involve people being in close proximity to each other. We just don't know
The second annual
Ridgway Old West Fest
for Sept 2020 has unfortunately been cancelled. Stay tuned for the 2021 festival.
“The festival has a number of events held at various locations including a concert, movies, demonstrations and presentations. These activities involve people being in close proximity to each other. We just don't know whether suitable venues will be available for these events and what health restrictions will be in place at that time,” said Eve Becker-Doyle, president of the Ridgway Western Heritage Society.
As of this date, the festival's partner entities still intend to go forward with their activities that weekend. The Ridgway Railroad Museum's Ouray County Railroad Days and the OC Ranch History Museum's demonstrations (classes, gallery show, and sales) of fine artisan leather crafts, mule packing, and blacksmithing are currently planned and underway.
Mission
This year's event has been cancelled!
This year's event has been cancelled!
The Ridgway Western Heritage Society celebrates Ridgway, Colorado's film, ranching
and railroad heritage,
and Western arts & culture.
SCULPTURES WANTED
Festival goers: Know of a John Wayne sculpture someone is trying to find a home for? We would love to have you donate it to the Ouray County Ranch History Museum. Contact
Joan Chismire, 970.316.1085,
History
This year's event has been cancelled!
History
The first annual Ridgway Old West Fest in 2019, celebrated Ridgway Colorado's brief transformation into Fort Smith, Arkansas, for the filming of True Grit.
2019 marked the 50th anniversary of the release of True Grit, for which John Wayne won his only Academy Award.
The famous director Henry Hathaway brought the True Grit cast and crew to
The first annual Ridgway Old West Fest in 2019, celebrated Ridgway Colorado's brief transformation into Fort Smith, Arkansas, for the filming of True Grit.
2019 marked the 50th anniversary of the release of True Grit, for which John Wayne won his only Academy Award.
The famous director Henry Hathaway brought the True Grit cast and crew to Ridgway and Ouray County in the summer of 1968.
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Next year's Old West Fest is slated for September 2021 during the Ouray County Railroad Days weekend. Although the Railroad Museum has not yet established 2021 dates for Railroad Days, the last weekend in September (September 24-26) is usually their choice.