Creede Donkey Dash

Please join us for the 8th year of the Creede Donkey Dash on Saturday, June 7, 2025!   IMPORTANT:  Please do not register for this race until you have been matched with a donkey teammate!  Race registration is separate from a donkey rental.     A brief history of the donkeys that now run Pack Burro Races Donkeys first arrived on US soil in 1784 as a royal gift from King Charles III of Spain to George Washington. The donkeys first worked the plantations, but by the 1800s, were helping to build the American West. They were used by miners during the Gold Rush era, but by the turn of the century, many of these hearty little donkeys were abandoned. The donkeys found ways to survive the most unforgiving, yet extreme terrains around the American West. Resilient, they can feed on desert vegetation. While herds of wild burros now face the same threats today as wild horses, they are also being rounded up and domesticated. After being gentled and trained, many who run their donkeys find that the