28th Annual Salute to American Veterans Rally
Schedule of Events
Check regularly for updates as we book this year's entertainment lineup!
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All Day
9:00 AM
10:00 AM
11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
11:00 AM - 5:00 PM
3:00 PM
Friday, August 21
Vendor Show Open
Veterans Poker Run Registration - American Legion Post 171, 400 E Carr Ave.
Red Friday T-Shirt Giveaway - Gazebo at 1st St & Bennett Ave
Official Rally Merchandise on sale at 2nd St & Bennett Ave
Bids accepted for Silent Auction
Veterans Poker Run - Last bike in
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7:00 AM - 10:30 AM
7:00 AM - 10:00 AM
8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
10:15 AM
11:15 AM
12:00 Noon
Saturday, August 22
Veterans Pancake Breakfast - Cripple Creek Fire Station
Breakfast served to POW/MIA Riders - Woodland Park High School
POW/MIA Recognition Ride Registration - Woodland Park High School
Official Rally Merchandise on sale at 2nd St & Bennett Ave
Official Rally Merchandise on sale on Bennett Ave between 4th & 5th St
Bids accepted for Silent Auction
Vendor show opens
Veterans Parade Assembly - Cripple Creek
Freedom Beer Garden opens
Veterans Parade - Downtown Cripple Creek
POW/MIA Recognition Ride leaves Woodland Park High School
POW/MIA Recognition Ride Arrives in Cripple Creek
POW/MIA Remembrance Ceremony - Speakers, Flyovers, etc. - City Park
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7:00 AM - 10:30 AM
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
10:00 AM
1:00 PM
Sunday, August 23
Veterans Pancake Breakfast - Cripple Creek Fire Station
Vendor Show Open
Official Rally Merchandise on sale at 2nd St & Bennett Ave
Bids accepted for Silent Auction
Freedom Beer Garden opens
Memorial Ceremony/Dedication - Cripple Creek War Memorial, Mt. Pisgah
Combat hero bike build
Combat Hero Bike Build is a nonprofit charity organization created to serve our severely wounded combat veterans. It is a program by warriors, for warriors, to give our wounded heroes the freedoms they once enjoyed.
Each August, the CHBB and Veterans Rally crews present one or more severely wounded combat veterans with a custom machine built especially for them. This is one of the highlights of the annual Rally. For more information on the Combat Hero Bike Build, visit their website.
Pictured below: the 2019 Combat Hero Bike Build presentation.
R.E.D. Friday
Remember Everyone Deployed
Come to the City Park gazebo at 1st Street & Bennett Avenue at 10:00 AM Friday to claim your free Support Our Troops t-shirt (limit 1 per person). R.E.D. Friday is a decade-long Rally tradition, and Rally attendees line up around the block to claim their shirts each year. The giveaway runs out quickly, so come early to grab yours.
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Remember to wear R.E.D. every Friday, until they all come home.
Official Rally Merchandise
Official event merchandise will be on sale at the corner of 2nd Street & Bennett Avenue all three days of the Rally. We create a unique t-shirt design for each year's Rally (pictured: the 2019 design) for a variety of high-quality men's and ladies' garments - all printed here in Colorado.
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We also sell custom pins, patches, hats, challenge coins, & more. 2020's designs will be published here as they are created - in the meantime, shop past years' official Rally merch.
Silent Auction
The highlight of this year's Silent Auction will be this framed painting - "Bootlegger Betty & Ugly Eddie" by David Uhl. Read the story of Bootlegger Betty from the artist himself, and bid on this painting outside the official Rally merchandise tent at 2nd Street & Bennett Avenue all weekend.
