Quite possibly the greatest breakfast enjoyed each year; the annual Buckaroo Breakfast is a long standing tradition during each Deschutes County Fair & Rodeo. Join us for the 2025 Breakfast: Gates open at 6:00am
Since
1944, the Buckaroo Breakfast Club has been serving its World Famous
buckaroo breakfast at the Deschutes County Fairgrounds.
A tradition many decades in the making, Redmond’s annual Buckaroo Breakfast is one of the longest-running cowboy cookouts in the United States. World War II was still raging in 1944 when local businessmen, ranchers and county fair supporters gathered to plan a real Western breakfast for the last day of the Deschutes County Fair. Its steaks, eggs, potatoes, pan bread and coffee were cooked over open flame — the cowboy way — and served to hundreds of bleary-eyed fairgoers beginning at 6 a.m. As the years went by, the event has grown, and now feeds upwards of 3,000 each year, including politicians hoping to shake a lot of hands, visitors from outside Redmond eager to be a part of the unique event, and former Redmondites on a visit home. Today, the Buckaroo Breakfast has changed little. Its location shifted when the fairgrounds moved but the food is still cooked over wood-fired open grills on the last morning of the fair. The 100-plus volunteers who work the event often include entire families and many of them are third-generation crew members.