Rodeo arena with dirt track, flags, trucks, and a structure with a sign that reads 'Coles County Rodeo Grounds,' situated in a green, hilly landscape with cloudy sky.
A cowboy wearing a hat, vest, and red bandana waving while sitting on a yellow bulldozer in a dirt field with a sunset sky in the background. There is a bull's head with a prohibition sign in the top left corner.

A No Bull Equipment Rodeo

September 12, 2026
Coarsegold Rodeo Grounds, CA

Heavy Equipment Skill Competition

Food • Community • Fun

The No Bull Equipment Rodeo is a one-of-a-kind community event where skilled operators compete in precision challenges using excavators, backhoes, and skid loaders.

It’s a day of friendly competition, great food, and community gathering — bringing together contractors, businesses, and families for an event unlike anything else in the region.

Precision. Power. Community. Purpose.

Yellow excavator at a construction site, moving gravel with a large bucket, with dirt and construction materials in the background.

Presented By H and H Works & Yosemite Foothills

In partnership with the Coarsegold Rodeo Grounds & made possible by Pape Machinery

Logo for Coarsegold Rodeo Grounds featuring a cowboy riding a bucking horse.
Yellow circular logo with black border, featuring the word 'PAPÉ' in large yellow capital letters inside a black square, and 'MACHINERY' written below in black capital letters.
Stylized text reading 'Yosemite foothills' with mountain and tree graphics.
Black circular logo with white text and graphics. At the top, mountains and pine trees. In the center, the words 'H and H Works' with decorative fonts. Below, a white silhouette of an excavator. At the bottom, two phone numbers and a license number.

Event Highlights

  • Heavy equipment skill competitions

  • Food trucks and local vendors

  • Family-friendly activities

  • Music and community gathering


Event Details

  • Date: September 12, 2026

  • Location: Coarsegold Rodeo Grounds - 44777 Rodeo Grounds Ln, Coarsegold, CA 93614

  • Time: Details coming soon

A yellow backhoe loader with a front bucket filled with gravel parked on a road under a blue sky with some clouds. Bare trees and a building are in the background.
A yellow construction loader with muddy tires on a dirt construction site, with brick walls in the background.
The Perspectives Project Colorful butterfly logo with black background, white and gray wings on the left, and vibrant green, orange, pink, and purple wings on the right.

Benefiting The Perspectives Project

This event benefits The Perspectives Project. Through transformative programs offered to young people facing serious challenges, marginalized and overlooked communities, and justice-involved individuals, participants begin to see themselves and their lives with a fresh perspective and new possibility.

We create spaces where people rediscover something powerful within themselves — their resilience, their wisdom, and their capacity for change. We point people toward a deeper understanding of how human experience is created.

Sponsors

Business card for H and H Works featuring mountain and excavator graphics, with contact info for Matt Horton and Keith Horton.
Stylized logo with the text "Yosemite foothills" in green, with mountain and tree illustrations.
Black and white logo for Coarsegold Rodeo Grounds featuring a rodeo rider on a bucking horse.
Yellow circular sign with black border, black square in the center with the word "PAPÉ" in yellow, and the word "MACHINERY" below in black.
People walking and sitting outside a rustic wooden building with signs, including a donkey statue on the roof, trees in the background, and dusty ground.

Get Involved!

Compete, Sponsor or Become a Vendor

Compete in the Equipment Rodeo

Show your skills in heavy equipment precision challenges.

Click HERE to apply to compete.

Become a Vendor

Food trucks and retail vendors are welcome.

Click HERE to apply to be a vendor.

Become a Sponsor

Support the event and gain visibility in the community.

Click HERE to become a sponsor.

More information is coming soon.

A small wooden building with a sign that reads 'Food Booth' and a white tent with 'Coarsegold Community Center' on it. There is a rusted metal sculpture of a pig with a long snout in front of the building. The setting appears to be outdoors with trees in the background and a dirt ground.
The perspectives project orange stylized butterfly wings.

Can’t Make The Event?

Donate to The Perspectives Project

Your support helps bring transformative programs to young people facing serious challenges, marginalized and overlooked communities, and justice-involved individuals who may never otherwise encounter this understanding.

Your donation helps create the conditions where these moments of insight can occur.

“The Perspectives Projects Insight To Wellbeing program has changed my life. I didn’t know how free you could be within your thoughts – and have them not own you. I am so grateful for what I’ve seen, the insight I’ve gained.”

– Participant at CCWF