Parade Committee

The Parade Committee is Cheyenne Frontier Days' largest committee with more than 500 volunteers. Dedicated volunteers devote their time year-round to ensure the parades and other activities are completed without a hitch.

Four parades are staged during Cheyenne Frontier Days on both Saturdays, Tuesday and Thursday. The phenomenal efforts of the volunteers enable people from all over the world take in the sights and sounds of some of the top marching bands and horse-drawn vehicles in the country.

Year round preparation is necessary to provide for the success of the parades. Wagon Doctors provide their skills to maintain and refurbish the historic wagons. Other volunteers are responsible for the placement of the parade route decorations – the first sign that Frontier Days is just around the corner. Invitations and coordination for marching bands, riding groups, visiting queens from world-wide, antique vehicles and drivers, military expositions, marching groups, wagon teams and drivers, historic and sponsor floats, guest announcers, grand marshals, parade line-up, parade day communication to include HAM operators and security measures with emergency service agencies requires months of planning.

The week of Cheyenne Frontier Days is the culmination of the enormous efforts and the volunteers take pride in their efforts as they converge over the 20 block parade route and furnish their valuable services as Foot Marshals, Buggy Loaders, Traffic control and barricades, and Mounted Marshals.

The flurry of activity is not limited to the parade route. Frontier Park sees its share of parade volunteers also. The Grand Entry and performance of the National Anthem is coordinated by enthusiastic parade volunteers.

Volunteers transport the public back in time as they complete the Invitational Chuck Wagon Cook-off, located between the Indian Village and Wild Horse Gulch.