67 Years Of Tradition!
The First Mancos Days Celebration
took place in Boyle Park in 1958.
LIBRARY BOOK SALE
Come one come all to the Mancos Library Book Sale from 10AM to 5PM!
VENDORS BOOTHS AT BOYLE PARK
Local Vendors will be set up at Boyle Park in downtown Mancos from 12PM to 6PM!
SOFTBALL TOURNAMENT AT BOYLE PARK
Don't forget to sign up for this years coed softball tournament at Boyle Park!
MANCOS DAYS PARADE
Don't forget to register to be in this years Grand Ave Parade!
CORNHOLE TOURNAMENT AT BOYLE PARK
Be a part of this year's Cornhole tournament at Boyle Park!
WATER DISPLAYS ON MAIN
Local Montezuma County Firefighters compete with water hoses right on Main St!
VOLLEYBALL TOURNAMENT
Don't miss out on this year's Volleyball tournament at Boyle Park!
ANTIQUE & CLASSIC CAR SHOW
Come one, come all, to this years car show at Boyle Park! Whether watching or participating, we'd love to see you there!
BEER GARDEN AT PIONEER PLAZA
Listen to live music and catch up with friends at the 4TH Annual Beer Garden!
5K FUN RUN
A Mancos Days Tradition, participants follow a course around the town of Mancos.
LIVE BANDS & MUSIC
Live music Friday - Sunday in both the Beer Garden and the Boyle Park Pavilion!
SUNDAY CHURCH & BREAKFAST
Wrap up Mancos Days with fellowship, live music, and good food on Sunday morning.
Mancos Days Parade
Welcome to the 'Little Town Big Top' Parade, the heart of the Mancos Days celebration! Let's fill Grand Avenue with the magic of the circus!
Design a spectacular float and don your most whimsical costume and join the parade. The 'Greatest Festival on Earth' is here!
MANCOS DAYS PIONEER QUEENS
It is tradition to honor a woman from the community as "Mancos Colorado Days Pioneer Queen." This queen is selected from the community and is a long time resident. She is selected by the Ladies Auxiliary and a quilt is made in her honor. There are tickets for a raffle to win the quilt that are drawn Saturday of the event.
To celebrate Mancos Royalty, The Mancos Days Queen and Past Queens ride in the Annual Parade. There is also a Queens' Tea at the Bauer House on Friday and a Queens' Luncheon on Saturday after the Parade.
CURRENT & PAST MANCOS COLORADO DAYS PIONEER QUEENS
2024 - Mary Alice Gonzales
2023 - Clara McNeil
2022 - Jeanne Smith
2021 - Dolores Martinez
2020 - Cancelled due to Pandemic
2019 - Roma Ewing
2018 - Susy Noland
2017 - Esther Cook
2016 - Joyce Wilkerson
2015 - Ellen Paquin
2014 - Ophelia Rivera
2013 - Shirley Whipple
2012 - Wanda Goode
2011 - Florence Archibeque
2010 - Faye Culp
2009 - Evelyn Eppich
2008 - Sally Weaver
2007 - Lois Humiston
2006 - Rowena Robbins
2005 - Jane Yeomans
2004 - Vergie Edwards
2003 - Betty Dillon
2002 - Roma Riffel
2001 - Irene Sheek
2000 - Grace Pickens
2000 - Elsie Bauer
1999 - Mary Coppinger
1998 - Jean Bader
1997 - Betty Alexander
1996 - Verna Towne
1995 - Lela Martinez
1994 - Serena Everett
1993 - Bea Cox
1992 - Mildred Spencer
1991 - Eileen Everett
1990 - Alice Willden
1989 - Alpha Smith
1988 - Irene Doerfer
1987 - Edna Robb
1986 - Daisie Malone
1985 - Mary Wallace
1984 - Carrie Bauer
1983 - Geraldine Wallace
1982 - Fern Ellis
1981 - Maurice Ritter
1980 - Glee Smith
1979 - Louise Halls
1978 - Mae Willden
1977 - Mattie Cantrell
1976 - Florence Roberts
1975 - Mae Elliot
1974 - Gladys Pilcher
1973 - Grace Swenk
1972 - Ethel Bowling
1971 - Ada Gibbs
1970 - Esma Bauer
1969 - Mattie Holston
1968 - Christine Smith
1967 - Mary Ellis
1966 - Myrtle Burnham
1965 - Eva Hayes
1964 - Cecilia Jensen
1963 - Mary Wilson
1962 - Joyce Trotter
1961 - Maria Decker
The Mancos Days Queen is chosen by the Montezuma County VFW Auxiliary #5231.
INTRODUCING "LITTLE MISS MANCOS"
Can you believe it has been 67 years since the very first Mancos Days? I want to take a huge step back in history just to see what it was truly like to wear those magnificent dresses and stunning hats while riding beautiful horses down Grand Avenue in our annual parade... Maybe play cowboy polo in the park, or chase some greased pigs just to see if I could catch one.
I know from talking to some of the “old timers” that ranch rodeos and family get togethers were more prominent back then and Maria Decker was our first Mancos Days Queen in 1961. Over the years, the Ladies Auxiliary has named a Mancos Days Queen each year, even picking twins one year. I knew some of these women and all of them deserved to be Queen! All of them are positively amazing!
2024 marks the third year of a new tradition for the younger generation, "Little Miss Mancos". is a young lady that was in 3rd grade last year at Mancos Elementary School and she was named by the teachers in the elementary school. Little Miss Mancos is recognized as being kind and helpful to not only the teachers, but to her fellow classmates and friends. She is a young lady that promotes happiness with a smile and a kind word or gesture; she is someone who helps others when they are feeling sad or down. Aliza is kind to all, and loves her family.
I want these young ladies to look up to the Mancos Days Queens to think that someday she may get the chance to be Queen. I love our little town; a lot has changed since 1958, and we have our little traditions. And we can still make more.
--Ewa Bell
2024 Mancos Citizen of the Year
Miss Aliza Davis
Little Miss Mancos 2024
Little Miss Mancos Began in 2022
Past LMMs
MANCOS DAYS 2024 SCHEDULE
2025 Schedule Coming Soon
*Live Music in Italics
FRIDAY JULY 26th
10AM-5PM Library Book Sale @ Library
10AM Kiddie Parade (Check-in at High School)
11 AM Kids Games in the Park (Ages 4-12)
12 PM Kids Skate Park
12PM-2PM Home Run Derby
12PM-6PM Vendor Booths in park
1PM Queens’ Tea by MoCo VFW Auxiliary (Community Center)
3PM Horizon (Pavilion)
5PM Escape The Badlands (Beer Garden - Pioneer Plaza)
5:30PM Vanishing Breed (Mancos Brewery)
6PM The Lizard Head Quartet (Fenceline)
SATURDAY JULY 27th
6AM-9AM Pancake Breakfast (P&D)
7AM 5K Fun Run Registration (Community Center)
7:30AM 5K Fun Run Starts
8AM Coed Softball Tournament Begins
8AM Volleyball Registration (By Pavilion)
8AM-6PM Vendor Booths in park
9AM Parade Registration Lineup (Spruce Street)
Volleyball Starts
10AM Mancos Days Parade Starts (Along Grand Ave)
10:30AM Classic & Antique Car Show (Grand Avenue)
11AM Cornhole Registration (Pavilion Area)
11AM Kid's Skate Park (Boyle East Parking Lot)
11AM-3PM Library Book Sale @ Library
12PM Flag Ceremony by MoCo VFW Post 5231 (Pavilion Area)
Queens’ Luncheon by MoCo VFW Auxiliary (Pavilion)
Horseshoe Tournament Registration (By Pits)
Cornhole Tournament Starts
12:15PM - Aloha Club (Boyle Park)
1PM Queens’ Quilt Raffle Winner by MoCo VFW Auxiliary
Horseshoe Tournament Starts
2PM Water ("Beer") Pong Registration (Basketball Ct)
2-7PM Mancos Commons Grand Opening (Downtown, Mancos Common Press)
2:30PM - BluPhunk Collective (Pavilion)
3PM Dice Tournament Registration (Basketball Ct)
3PM Water ("Beer") Pong Tournament (Basketball Ct)
4pm Dice Tournament (Basketball Ct)
4PM Cricket (Fenceline)
5PM Neighborhood Watch (Beer Garden - Pioneer Plaza)
7PM Afrobeatniks (Beer Garden - Pioneer Plaza)
7:30PM Teen Movie - Warrior King (Mancos Library)
9PM Little Brother (Beer Garden - Pioneer Plaza)
SUNDAY JULY 28th
8AM Coed Softball Tournament
8AM-12PM Vendor Booths in park
9AM Live Music by Donnie Johnson and the Southwest Cowboy Church Band (Pavilion)
Church Breakfast (Near Pavilion)
9:30AM Sunday Church Service (Pavilion)
Mesa Trails Cowboy Church Band (Pavilion)
10AM Mancos Cattlemen's Ranch Rodeo (Cox Arena)
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