WY Sheep & Wool Fest

The Wyoming Sheep & Wool Festival is a multi-day event held at the Park County Fairgrounds in Powell, Wyoming, in the Bighorn Basin. This one leans heavily into its ranching roots. Friday opens with a sustainable sheep grazing workshop in the Shoshone National Forest and a wool evaluation training session, followed by an evening art and woolcraft opening reception with a panel of multi-generational Wyoming sheepherders. Saturday is the main event: a sheepdog trial, shearing demonstrations, a sheep-to-shawl demonstration by the Laramie Fiber Guild, rug hooking demos, a juried art and woolcraft exhibition, and a vendor fair that mixes fiber artists with wool mills, federal land agencies, and working ranches. A self-driving sheep trail tour lets you follow grazing routes through the Shoshone National Forest, listening to recorded stories from herders who worked those mountains. The weekend wraps with the Sheepherders Come Bye awards dinner and a dance. The festival is a project of the Wyoming Wool Growers Association, and the programming reflects that: this is a celebration of Wyoming's sheep industry with fiber arts woven through it, rather than the other way around.