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2019 USA Today 10Best Nomination for Dodge City

Vote today for Dodge City in the 2019 10Best Readers' Choice travel awards Best Historic Small Town. The contest, which is being promoted by USA TODAY, gives voters four weeks to vote for the candidate of their choice https://www.10best.com/awards/travel/...

Dodge City Live, Work, Play

The Dodge City/Ford County Development Corporation, Dodge City Area Chamber of Commerce, and Dodge City Convention and Visitors Bureau are working together to make Dodge City the best city in southwest Kansas to LIVE, WORK, and PLAY.  Through thi...

Dodge City to Host KSHSAA State Basketball

The Dodge City Sports Commission will once again host the 2019 KSHSAA Class 1A State Basketball Tournament, March 6-9 at the United Wireless Arena. This marks the fifth consecutive year that Dodge City has been selected as the host site. Before 2015 - the...

2018/2019 Pheasant Hunting Contest Winner Announcement

Dodge City Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB) is pleased to announce winners from the Bounty Bird and Rooster Roundup pheasant hunting contests. The CVB ran these two separate hunting contests simultaneously in Ford County for pheasant hunters...

Dodge City Days Concert 2019- Trace Adkins

Dodge City Honored as Top True Western Town by True West Magazine!

Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson walked the streets of Dodge—and helped enforce the law--when it was a whiskey-soaked cattle town, a hell on the plains. Now it’s just plain fun.

United Wireless Arena Receives Award

Facilities & Event Management Magazine has named United Wireless Arena one
of the winners of their 2018 Prime Site Award...

Dodge City Roundup Rodeo selected as the #1 “Best North American Rodeo”

August 4, 2018

For Immediate Release 

USA TODAY 10Best Readers’ Choice for Best Rodeo Results

On June 25^th, Dodge City Convention and Visitors Bureau and Dodge City Roundup Rodeo were notified that Dodge City Roundup Rodeo was being includ...

USA Today 10Best Historic Small Towns

“Famous for its Wild West shenanigans featuring Bat Masterson and Wyatt Earp during the late 19th century, Dodge City maintains much of its historical appeal."

Shrine Bowl to be Played in Dodge City for 2019

The Kansas Shrine Bowl is proud to announce that Dodge City, Kansas, has been selected to host the 2019 Kansas Shrine Bowl All-Star Football Game. The two-day event will be June 7-8, 2019.

Dodge City Ranked in Top 10 True Western Towns

“Dodge City’s history is remarkable and fascinating,” says True West Executive Editor Bob Boze Bell. “And it still lives in the events, the buildings, the collections that are visited by thousands of people every year.”