4th of July
Street Festival & Vendors • Mining Competitions • Live Music • and More!
July 4th FREE Shuttle Bus & Parking @ Fairgrounds
Runs 8am-10pm between Fairgrounds & Downtown
Friday, July 4th, 2025
Street Vendors, Beer Garden, and Farmer's Market
9am - Late Afternoon: Colorado State Mining Championships
Hand-mucking • Machine (Jack-leg) • Drilling Single Jack
10am - Parade on Main Street
6pm - "Zanadu" performance at Creede Rep
6pm - ChuteOut Rodeo at Fairgrounds
8pm - Music, Beer Garden & Glow Party @ Basham Park
Dark-Thirty: Fireworks (South of Creede at MntViews RV Park)
Live Music at various places around town
Saturday, July 5th, 2025
Street Vendors, Beer Garden, and Farmer's Market
9am - Late Afternoon: Days of ‘92 Mining Competitions
Team Machine (Jack-leg) Drilling
Spike Driving • Double Jack • Machine Mucking
7pm - "The 39 Steps" performance at Creede Rep
7pm - "Silent Sky" performance at Creede Rep
Live Music at various places around town
Sunday, July 6th, 2025
Street Vendors, Beer Garden, and Farmer's Market
1pm - "The Fantasticks" performance at Creede Rep
2pm - Live Music in Basham Park
7pm - "Xanadu" performance at Creede Rep
Live Music at various places around town
Download City of Creede 4th of July Brochure Vendor or Parade Participant Info
The Mining Events: Celebrating Creede's History
It’s only fitting that Creede’s largest festival of the year centers around preserving the history of mining. Like many Western mining towns, Creede has always had mining competitions. When the area’s mines were operational, the events were sponsored by the different mining companies as morale boosters for the miners. With the mines being mostly closed for more than 30 years, the need to preserve Creede’s mining past is as important as ever. Creede is and always has been a close community whose residents pride themselves on the town’s storied past.
For more than 46 years now, Creede has hosted a two-day competition that draws mining competitors from across the Southwest region. The competitors are actual miners who come to Creede on July 4th each year to battle for the highly-coveted prize of “Best Overall Miner of the Year”.
On the first day of the competition, the Colorado State Mining Championships features a taxing gamut of events that test the skill levels of the miners both physically and mentally. The second day of competition, the Days of ‘92, has been a staple since the 1960s. When the State Mining Championships came to Creede in the late 1970s, the two competitions were melded together into one.
The different events, Jack-Leg Drilling, Hand Steeling, Hand Mucking, Spike Driving, and Machine Mucking, are designed to show spectators the daily life of a hardrock miner.
Spectators can enjoy the mining events every year in the Basham Park arena in downtown Creede. The events are free to the public and a permanent grandstand has been constructed for easy viewing. The events begin both mornings at 9 a.m. and usually last until mid-afternoon.
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In the Media
Creede 4th of July from Bev Chapman on Vimeo.
