Once a fixture at Wyoming’s Lamar Park, the Wyoming Rodeo drew in hundreds of thousands of people every year. To celebrate the city’s incorporation, Wyoming decided to host the Wyoming Festival in 1962. The event was so popular that at the suggestion of business owner Lyle Converse, the Wyoming Rodeo was born. For about the next 25 years, the rodeo brought some of the biggest name performers of the time, such as Bob Hope, Michael Landon, Reba McEntire, Crystal Gale, and Tammy Wynette. By the mid-1980s, interest in the rodeo had dwindled. The building was torn down in the 1990s.
From the Wyoming Rodeo came the Wyoming Community Enrichment Commission which hosts the annual Concerts in the Park at Lamar Park and other events.
