Tucson, Arizona

====Tucson Rodeo (Fiesta de los Vaqueros)====
[[File:TeamRopingTucson.jpg|thumb|right|Team roping competition at Tucson's ''Fiesta de los Vaqueros'']]

Another popular event held in February, which is early spring in Tucson, is the Fiesta de los Vaqueros, or [[rodeo]] week, founded by winter visitor, Leighton Kramer.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://tucson.com/news/local/street-smarts-kramer-ave-named-for-winter-visitor-who-helped/article_83577fb0-db6d-5bee-a64a-e5a35dd52130.html|title=Street Smarts: Kramer Ave. named for winter visitor who helped start rodeo, parade in 1925|author=David Leighton|newspaper=Arizona Daily Star|access-date=July 7, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180707202438/https://tucson.com/news/local/street-smarts-kramer-ave-named-for-winter-visitor-who-helped/article_83577fb0-db6d-5bee-a64a-e5a35dd52130.html|archive-date=July 7, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> While at its heart the Fiesta is a sporting event, it includes what is billed as "the world's largest non-mechanized parade".<ref>{{cite web |title=The Tucson Rodeo Parade |url=http://www.tucsonrodeoparade.com/Pages001/Parade.htm |access-date=March 12, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100301085026/http://tucsonrodeoparade.com/Pages001/Parade.htm |archive-date=March 1, 2010}}</ref> The Rodeo Parade is a popular event as most schools give two rodeo days off instead of Presidents' Day. The exception is Presidio High (a non-public charter school), which does not get either. Western wear is seen throughout the city as corporate dress codes are cast aside during the Fiesta. The Fiesta de los Vaqueros marks the beginning of the rodeo season in the United States.{{Citation needed|date=August 2023}}