Riverton Holiday Festival Home Decorating Contest 2025: How Voting Works & How to Win

What the Riverton Holiday Festival Home Decorating Contest is and who runs it

The Riverton Holiday Festival Home Decorating Contest is a seasonal public-vote ballot run by County 10, the news outlet based in Riverton that covers Fremont County, Wyoming. Within the best-of vertical it is an unusual entry, because unlike a citywide readers' choice poll it celebrates holiday displays at local homes, and supporters decide which decorated properties stand out. Second Street hosts the ballot, and it is the platform County 10 also uses for its photo galleries and sweepstakes; the 2025 ballot lives at the address printed in the table below.

The promotion type on file is Ballot/NominationAndVotingBallot, meaning the page handles nomination and voting in a single flow. Because the program is a home decorating contest rather than a business ranking, the entries are residential displays, and the audience is the outlet's own readership across Fremont County. Nothing in the published material describes judging panels or staff picks; the mechanic is a public vote, so the audience alone decides the outcome.

For a household hoping to be voted the standout display of the season, the practical questions are where the ballot sits, when it opens, and what the rules allow. This page answers the location and the window from the confirmed listing and flags the rules wherever the organizer has left them unstated. County 10 also runs unrelated promotions from that same Second Street account, so supporters should follow the exact contest address rather than browsing the platform root.

The dated record for the decorating ballot

The 2025 edition ran from December 8 to December 23, 2025, and the listing now shows it as closed. County 10's Second Street account carried the same program the previous winter as well: confirmed editions exist for 2024 and 2025, which is what marks the contest as a recurring winter program rather than a one-off. The pattern points to a late-year window each holiday season, and a next edition would fall in 2026, though the organizer has not yet published a 2026 date.

Beyond the window itself, the published listing is thin. County 10 has not printed the category list for the decorating ballot, nor any per-household voting limit or eligibility terms; confirm on the live ballot each cycle. Those omissions matter for planning as much as for rules, because a household that wants to time its push needs the opening day, the closing hour, and any daily voting rhythm, and only the start and end dates are fixed in the confirmed material.

The 2025 ballot closed on December 23, so any vote cast after that date had no effect on the 2025 outcome. A household planning for the next holiday season should treat the mid-December window as the working assumption and verify the exact dates when County 10 publishes the new ballot. The outlet's own channels are where its past editions were promoted, so that is the likeliest place for the next announcement to appear.

How a supporter votes on the County 10 ballot

Voting happens on County 10's Second Street ballot page, reached at the contest's own address rather than through the outlet's homepage. The promotion type, NominationAndVotingBallot, means the page can accept a nomination and a vote in the same session, so a supporter who does not see a favorite display listed may be able to add it before casting a ballot.

Voting takes four steps: open the contest page, browse the decorated-home entries presented there, select a favorite, and submit through the on-page form. The ballot is a web page, and no app download is described in the confirmed material. What the listing does not spell out is the rhythm: whether a supporter may return daily, whether an email address or a supporter account is needed, and whether votes from outside Fremont County count. Those details sit with the live form rather than with any published summary, so a supporter should read the instructions printed on the ballot page itself before voting.

Because the 2025 window has closed, the page currently serves as a reference for the finished edition rather than as an active ballot. When the outlet opens its next edition, the same address pattern is where the new form should appear, since the 2024 and 2025 editions were both carried on the outlet's Second Street account. Supporters who want a reminder of the rhythm can watch the outlet's own channels, which is where past editions were promoted, and return to the ballot as soon as the new window opens.

How this ballot sits beside Wyoming's other vote programs

County 10's decorating ballot is a small, seasonal program compared with the readers' choice contests that dominate Wyoming's public-vote calendar. The state's bigger ballots include Best of Wyoming, the statewide catch-all, and Best of Jackson Hole, which serves the resort valley in the state's northwest. Cheyenne fields Cap City's Best and CommunityVotes Cheyenne, while Gillette has County 17's Best and Casper is covered by the Casper Star-Tribune Best of Wyoming ballot.

None of those programs ranks holiday decorations; they are business and service rankings with broad category rosters. The Riverton contest differs in subject, in scale, and in rhythm: it celebrates residential displays rather than merchants, its audience is County 10's Fremont County readership rather than a whole city or state, and its window is a short December stretch rather than a months-long voting season.

For a Riverton household, that means the competition is neighbors rather than businesses, and the push for support has to fit inside that narrow window. It also means the tactics that work in a big readers' choice ballot, where a merchant can campaign for weeks across many categories, do not transfer directly. A decorated home wins by being seen and voted early, and the organizer's rules, not a borrowed playbook, decide what support is allowed to look like.

Building support for a decorated home in this contest

Support for a decorated home in this contest comes down to turnout during a short mid-December window, and the confirmed material gives no sign that the organizer permits or encourages anything beyond ordinary public voting. On the subject of outside help, paid promotion, or voting software, County 10 has published nothing for this ballot, so a household should treat the organizer's own rules as the final word and read them on the live form before the next edition opens.

The practical levers are the ones any holiday display already suggests: make the decoration visible from the street, share the contest link during the open window, and ask neighbors, coworkers, and relatives to vote early rather than at the deadline. Our votes guide collects tactics that suit short-window community ballots, and the award-votes page describes the package options that exist for contests of this kind. Neither page promises a result; both describe the landscape a supporter is voting in, and the organizer's terms always take precedence over anything printed here.