Sun Valley Rides

🎆🎡 LIGHTS. RIDES. FUN. MEMORIES. 🎡🎆

The countdown is on, Raton! The Sun Valley Rides Carnival is rolling into town for FOUR DAYS of nonstop family fun!

🎠 Heart-pounding rides, classic carnival treats, Games & prizes, amazing memories for all ages✨

📍 Raton High School�
📅 June 11th–14th, 2026

🎟️ Unlimited Ride Wristbands Presale: $30 �
📍 Available now at InBank locations in Raton�
⏰ Ends June 11th at 4 PM

🎡 On-Site Wristbands: $35

Bring the kids, grab your friends, and come make this the highlight of your summer! Whether you're chasing thrills, craving funnel cake, or just looking for a fun night out, there's something for everyone at the Raton Summer Carnival!

Tag your carnival crew below and let us know which ride you're heading to first! 👇🎢

Every year for 20 years, The White Mountain Nature Center volunteers puts on a wonderful appreciation dinner for our crew! This organization also allowed us to park our carnival & crew at their property during COVID; May - October 2020. We worked on a lot of our equipment, changed their entire lighting system over to LED and built some nice display/storage cabinets for them. Thank you Jim Snitzer & the White Mountain Nature Center Board of Directors and Members. This is an amazing organization! Check them out at www.wmnature.org

To CLARIFY Service Animals AND Emotional Support Animals are EXEMPT from the ADA ACT with regards to traveling carnival rides. Furthermore, if you truly love your pet then why would you want to subject your beloved animal to that experience? Flashing lights, screaming with joy or horror kids and loud music, not to mention the motions of these amusement rides?

Just one of our Winter Quarters projects. Last year the Puppy Roll was trailer mounted by a 3rd party. This Winter we made our changes to flash it up better.... The first 2 photos are how we got it back, the others are our modifications or MATTFELDT/EDWARDTIZED it LOL. Thank you CMI Graphics for the scenery design & decals! Thank you Terry Williams for creating the sweep/arms lighting brackets. Thank you to Calvin Edwards and the SVR/MEC crew, it turned out beautiful! 🤩

Sun Valley Rides & the Mattfeldt Family Carnivals has supported the Showmen's League of America for over 25 years, and PROUD to do so!

It's that time of year when we have to say good bye, for now, to our awesome crew! 😭🥲🥰 It has been a tough, grueling season with all of the rain and MUD that we have had to endure. Thankfully the summer was not as hot as it had been in previous years. Sun Valley Rides & Mattfeldt Equipment crew is made up of the finest individuals who sacrifice 9.5 months, being away from their families to provide a better life for those families AND a safe enjoyable experience for our guests. We do this FOR YOU, our guests and host towns & cities in which we operate in. We appreciate these men & women's loyalty, job performance and fellowship as we travel across the Intermountain West. God speed & safe return to your families! 🙏🙏🙏 We value & appreciate your dedication! Thank you from the bottom of our Owner & Management Team's hearts 💚❤️💚❤️💚 YOU ALL make our business great & we look forward to the privilege of working with you again next season! 🤩🤩🤩

To our Management Team, I'm not the easiest person to work with at times but be assured that your hard work is VERY MUCH appreciated! 👊👊👊 Thank you for the professionalism that you bring EVERY DAY to this wild & crazy, at times, industry that we love so very much. 🎡🎡🎡

To our valued guests, Fairs, Festivals & Shopping Center Partners, THANK YOU for continuing to host & support our Carnival! 🎠🎠🎠 We know that you have choices on where you spend your hard-earned money & whom you book to provide the amusement rides for your events 🌞🌞🌞.

To our Suppliers & Vendors, we understand that doing business now days is challenging. Many are having to raise prices, cut back on some services & are short handed through no fault of your own. We appreciate all that you do to keep our equipment safe & operational.

You ALL make Sun Valley Rides Carnival a very special place to work & experience!

THANKYOUALL, have a WONDERFUL Holiday Season & we look forward to seeing & working with you again in 2026! 🎆🧸🎉

I'm sounding and pontificating like our President 😋 but it's all true! Mutual respect & admiration MUST be shown, congratulated & bragged upon as there is not enough of that these days, in my humble opinion!

Thanks again & may God continue to watch over a guide us all! 🥰

This is WHY we do what we do! Bringing joy and happiness to the communities that we operate in is very special!

Showmen's League of America. T-Shirt Scholarship Fundraiser Program Day!

The Staff & Management of Sun Valley Rides, Mattfeldt Equipment Company, Emmy's Elephant Ears & It's All Good Amazements are proud supporters of this wonderful program which has been able to fund 100% of the qualified applicants with scholarships for kiddo's and families involved in the mobile amusement industry!

After 27 years of not owning a Merry Go Round, we have purchased this one. We will use it the remainder of this season and then add figurines; Sea Horse, Monkey, Giraffe, Zebra, Elephant, Rooster and a couple of others to make this a full Carousel! Audio Innovators provided a sound system that plays traditional Calliope music with verbal instructions for entering and exiting the ride safely. Thank you to Joe & Dee Dee Edwards of Southwest Concessions for sell us this beautiful machine!