We are planning an IBCA BBQ event for this time next year, June 13-14, just before Father's Day, here in Silver City, New Mexico. Silver City is right on the Continental Divide at 6,000 ft. elevation, just 3 hours from Tucson, AZ or 4&1/2 hours from Phoenix. It is an easy drive down I-10, then turn and go north 45 miles from Lordsburg on NM 90. We have a great location, lots of room, a 5,000 sq ft tent. We will have live music, an ATV Tractor Pull, and will be featuring a Green Chile Cook-off as well as the usual BBQ items. We will have a significant purse, hopefully as much as $5,000. We will be looking for vendor entrants as well as regular participants. Would you be interested? Would you come?
This is a cute little mountain town dating from the 1870's. Lots of History around here. With the elevation at 6,000 ft., right now temperatures are in the 80's, and June is very predictable weather. There is a really nice RV park right next door, "Rose Valley RV", with full hook ups and cabins, and 7 motels within a mile. The Comfort Inn, Super 8, Econo Lodge, and Holiday Inn Express are all brand new. We're big enough to have a Super Wal Mart, but not big enough to have any of the big restaurant chains like Chilis or Outback,,,not even an Applebee's. May is full of major events, the Tour of the Gila Bicycle race, the Blues Festival on Memorial Day and our Wild West Rodeo. But June is wide open, and Father's Day could be just the right time to take Dad out for some BBQ and maybe win a BBQ of his own. We will be raffling off a nice BBQ to the public.
Please respond.. Without cookers, we have no event. We are right between Texas and Az, and hope to draw cookers from both directions....
