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The 2024 Medicine Hat Exhibition & Stampede Parade. File Photo/CHAT News
STAMPEDE - DAILY LOOK

Medicine Hat Exhibition & Stampede includes parade Thursday

Jul 23, 2025 | 9:00 PM

The 2025 Medicine Hat Exhibition & Stampede enters it’s second day on Thursday and begins with a parade at 9 a.m.

Alberta premier Danielle Smith will be the parade marshall.

The parade route for the Medicine Hat Exhibition and Stampede is located in downtown Medicine Hat.

It will start by the Medicine Hat Curling Club, then turn right onto Maple Avenue and left onto First Street Southeast going under the underpass.

Next it will take a left at Sixth Avenue Southeast, followed by a right on 2nd Street Southeast.

It will wrap up a right onto River Road which it will follow to the YMCA gym parking lot for the conclusion.

Medicine Hat Exhibition & Stampede 2025 Parade Route. Courtesy/MHES

At the stampede grounds, the gates open at noon.

Regular gate admission throughout the week is $10 for adults and $5 for children 12 and under.

The West Coast Amusement midway opens at noon and runs until the clock strikes midnight, as it will each night through Saturday.

Daily ride passes are available for $55. Pre-sales for the $45 passes ended on July 22.

New to Thursday is a Come meet Kronk the Alpaca event taking place on the grounds at 2 p.m.

The Summer Pro Rodeo also kicks on Thursday with a grandstand show at 5 p.m.

Taking to the grandstand for a concert at 9 p.m. is country band Tim & the Glory Boys.

Fireworks will take place each night at 10:45 p.m.

The Thursday lineup for the Medicine Hat Exhibition & Stampede. Courtesy/MHES

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At chatnewstoday.ca we are compiling pictures from the Stampede throughout the week and are looking for you to share some photos you have taken from this years event, for us to post on chatnewstoday.ca.

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