Steamboat Springs, Colorado 2010 Yampa River Festival This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Yampa River Festival. The 2010 Yampa River Festival will be held on Memorial Day Weekend with events on Saturday, Sunday and Monday, the 28th - 30th. See details on poster below. June 3, 2010 update:- What a great weekend we had for our 30th Annual Yampa River Festival. Here is a link to some images from the 2010 Yampa River Festival. Started in 1971 by several Steamboat locals, the event has grown to national recognition drawing not only local competitors but those from all over U.S.A. The festival includes several boating events including kayak rodeo's, kayak slalom, a raft race, tubing rodeo, a river board demonstration and the undisputed crowd favorite, the Crazy River Dog contest. There is also food and water sport vendors and River Fiesta parties during the evening. The Friends of the Yampa partnered in 2008 with the folks from Paddling Life to combine the River Fest with PL's Paddling Life Invitational which is held on the Monday. The invitational brings in some of the top pro level kayakers from all over the world for a kayak rodeo and race down Fish Creek. The PL Pro Invitational is held on Monday allowing for a full weekend of river events. Everyone is invited to come down to the River and celebrate the Yampa in all of its glory. The Friends of the Yampa is a river advocacy group based on one common passion, a love for the Yampa River. We have a long standing history of working for the river by organizing river clean ups, holding discussions about the rivers important and rare attributes, funding and helping build river features as well as participating in a variety of local, regional and national policy efforts and campaigns. Call Pete at Backdoor Sports (970-879-6249) to learn more about the Friends of the Yampa and when we meet and how you can participate in this river advocacy group. 2010 Yampa River Festival and Paddling Life Pro Invitational Timeline:
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