The complex on SR-112
Opened 1999 County owned Between the two cities
The Peak opened in 1999 as the Deseret Peak Complex, and if you have lived in the valley a while, that is still the name you may reach for first. Tooele County renamed it The Peak Sports and Entertainment Complex in 2025, but the ground and the mission are unchanged: it is the county's fairgrounds, arena and outdoor sports campus, laid out where SR-112 runs between Tooele and Grantsville. It belongs to Tooele County and is run by the county's Parks and Recreation department.
What makes it useful is how much it holds in one place. Under roof there is an indoor arena with grandstand seating and a convention center that divides into smaller rooms for shows and gatherings. Outdoors, there is an equestrian arena, a motorized arena for derbies and motocross-style events, a nearly mile-long motocross track, a USA BMX sanctioned bicycle track, softball and baseball diamonds, soccer fields, big open pavilions, a stable barn and an RV campground. Add an archery range and playgrounds, and you have the reason a rural county of this size can host a fair, a rodeo and a race weekend without leaving home.
Because it is a highway venue rather than a downtown one, it reads more like a destination than a stroll. You point the car west out of Tooele or east out of Grantsville, watch for Sheep Lane, and turn in. That slight remove is the point: it gives the fair its parking, the derby its dust and the campground its room to spread out.
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The Tooele County Fair
Late July into August The Peak Gate free
The county fair is the week The Peak was built for. It lands in late July and rolls into the first days of August, with the exact run shifting a few days from one year to the next. The spine of it is the classic county fair: a junior livestock show and auction where 4-H and FFA kids sell the animals they raised, home arts exhibits in the halls, a carnival midway, vendor rows and food.
The night that draws the biggest crowd is the demolition derby, billed as Punishment at the Peak, run in the motorized arena with cars that came to be wrecked. Around it the week carries arena rodeo and bull riding, so a fair visit can be a free afternoon in the barns and halls or a ticketed evening in the grandstand, or both. General admission to the fairgrounds is free; the derby and the arena shows are where you buy a ticket.
It is the one stretch of the year when the whole county converges on this spot, so the lots are full and the campground books up. If you are traveling in for it, plan the parking and the seats early, and confirm the current year's nights with Tooele County Parks and Recreation, since the dates are the part that moves.
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The Bit N' Spur Rodeo
The Fourth of July Outdoor arena Ticketed
The Bit N' Spur is the county's oldest and largest rodeo, and it is older than most in the state. The Bit N' Spur Riding and Rodeo Club was founded in 1945, and its Fourth of July rodeo has run for decades since, filling The Peak's outdoor arena across the holiday weekend with a youth rodeo alongside the main show. The club bills it as the largest rodeo of its kind held in Utah.
Here is the detail worth getting right: it is an RMPRA rodeo, sanctioned by the Rocky Mountain Pro Rodeo Association, not a PRCA event. That is a real distinction if you follow rodeo, and it is the largest RMPRA rodeo the state hosts. What you get on the ground is a full night of standard events, bareback and saddle bronc, roping, barrels and bulls, under the summer sky on the holiday weekend.
Gates and presale tickets are handled by the club each year, and popular nights sell their seating, so buy ahead if you can. The rodeo happens at The Peak, out on the highway, and not in Tooele itself, so route to the fairgrounds rather than downtown.
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The rest of the year
Spring through fall By event Check the calendar
The fair and the rodeo are the headliners, but the complex works most weekends of the warm season. Across the year the arenas, tracks and pavilions carry equestrian shows and more rodeos, demolition derbies, motocross and arenacross nights in the motorized arena, USA BMX racing, archery tournaments and leagues, and softball and ball-field seasons on the lit diamonds. The convention center takes conventions, trade shows and community gatherings. The exact lineup changes year to year, so the Tooele County Parks and Recreation calendar is the honest place to see what is actually on when you are looking.
One quieter draw sits on the grounds year round: the Utah Firefighters Museum, a collection of vintage fire apparatus. It keeps limited hours and works by appointment rather than a full daily schedule, so call ahead through the county before you plan a stop around it.
You may also see The Peak sold online as the home of Country Fan Fest, the country-music and camping weekend that ran here for years. Be careful with those listings. The festival was last held in 2024 and has been on hiatus since; organizers pointed to the rising cost of running an independent festival and left the door open to a return, but as of 2026 no revival is confirmed. If you want the city's own summer calendar instead, the free Fridays on Vine concerts and Tooele's Fourth of July parade downtown, that lives on our Fridays on Vine and Tooele's year page.
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Living near The Peak
If you are weighing a move rather than a visit, the complex says something true about this stretch of the valley: it is the shared back yard for Tooele and Grantsville both, a few minutes off the highway that connects them, with Erda's acreage just to the north. Homes, neighborhoods and current prices live on the Tooele city page and the Grantsville city page, with Erda a short drive away, and the rest of the county is on the Tooele County companion and the day trips from Tooele guide.
