OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. – The Silver Spurs Rodeo — the largest rodeo east of the Mississippi — returns for its annual ropin’, wrestlin’ and ridin’ at Silver Spurs Arena inside of Osceola Heritage Park in Kissimmee.
The event, which happens on every third weekend in February, features all seven traditional rodeo events: bull riding, saddle bronc riding, bareback riding, steer wrestling, team roping, tie-down roping, and barrel racing.
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The Silver Spurs Riding Club got its start in the early 1940s when a group of local ranchers got together for an informal Quadrille, kind of like a square dance on horseback. It didn’t take long before that act of fellowship turned into philanthropy.
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Today, it takes an army of volunteers to keep all their traditions alive. Every year, the riding club elects a new “Big Boss” to organize the rodeos and raise even more money for local charities.
This year’s “Big Boss” of the Silver Spurs Riding Club is Randy Booth. Booth’s grandfather (“Doc” Partin), father (Tom Booth), and brother (Ricky Booth) have all formerly served as Big Boss.
This year’s event runs Feb. 20-23 at Silver Spurs Arena in Kissimmee. Tickets can be purchased here.
Whether you already planned to attend or are looking for a spur of the moment activity, lasso up the family and head down to Osceola County.
Other Silver Spurs events to catch leading up to the rodeo:
Annual Silver Spurs Rodeo Parade: The parade is still a community event and now rides through the streets of Downtown St. Cloud every February.
- Feb. 15 at 10 a.m. in downtown St. Cloud
14th Annual Monster Bulls: Join us for a night of just bull riding where the biggest and baddest Silver Spurs bulls will enter the arena and give the cowboys the ride of their life.
- Feb. 15 at 7:30 p.m.
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