Quartzsite 2018
I got an email from someone already counting down the days, hours, minutes and seconds, until it starts. Anybody else had enough of this heat?
Forum Discussion
bobsallyh wrote:
I wonder how many more vendors that the town fathers and mothers ran off and wont be back for 2018? Each year I run up from Yuma and there is less and less.
There are less vendors every year. There were plenty of RV's this year but less vendors than ever.
I have been going most years since around 1994 and I would estimate the number of vendors is down 40% more from the earlier days. There were easily over 200 vendors years ago in the Main Event area and to the east of it, now it is virtually nothing. Rice Ranch used to have about 20 or more vendors on the back side and now they can not even fill the spots along Kuehn Road. Tyson Wells Show was always near full but not so much any more.
There are multiple reasons but a major cause looks to be what was a dysfunctional and greedy town government. I have had multiple vendors tell me over the years they were tired of the fees and over aggressive behavior of city officials and said they would not be back. The local politics seem to be more stable now and so the challenge is to rebuild the reputation among the vendor community and give the vendors a reason to add Quartzsite to their tour.
