Cheyenne Frontier Days Closes Frontier Park to the Public

Cheyenne Frontier Days has announced that the park will be closed to public access in a news release on Thursday, November 14, 2024. According to the release, Cheyenne Frontier Days has decided to close the park, except during events for public safety and the long-term health of the organization in mind.

The closure is prompted after much consideration by Cheyenne Frontier Days after significant vandalism occurred over the past two weeks in Frontier Park. Tom Hirsig, Cheyenne Frontier Days CEO, said the decision to restrict access to the park is to minimize risk to members of the public and decrease the opportunity for theft and vandalism on the park grounds.

We've had signs up for months alerting the public that the park was closed, but that signage has been mostly ignored. We felt now was the right time to start enforcing it.

Said Hirsig in the new release.

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Cheyenne Frontier Days leases Frontier Park from the City of Cheyenne. In Wyoming, a private landowner, or someone who leases land from the state, city, or from a landowner, can be held liable for injuries sustained by someone who enters the property. This risk of people coming into the park when there is snow, ice, cracked concrete, or other natural occurrences that someone could be injured on became too great for Cheyenne Frontier Days to ignore.

Cheyenne Frontier Days will hold a public meeting regarding the closure of Frontier Park on November 19 at 5:30 p.m. at CFD Headquarters to explain the decision further and allow neighbors in the area to address questions and concerns to Cheyenne Frontier Days leadership.