Gelly Ball<\/a>, a lower impact version of paintball.<\/p>\nAt night, 541 Bounce Experience will be open during all of the Jefferson County Fair & Rodeo weekend, from 11 a.m. to after 11 p.m., including offering movies with concessions for kids to enjoy. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis year there\u2019s going to be a lot more entertainment for all ages,\u201d Platt said. <\/p>\n
Platt said the company being based in Central Oregon was a big help.<\/p>\n
\u201c(We) really just wanted to come up with something unique and fun since we weren\u2019t going to be able to replace carnival rides,\u201d Platt said. <\/p>\n
Trentyn Luther, who owns 541 Bounce Experience, started the company during the pandemic as a way to give his kids the ability to stay active. Community members started asking to borrow or rent the bounce house from him. <\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s where I had the idea,\u201d Luther said.<\/p>\n
Buying a couple more bounce houses and renting them out eventually made the bounce houses pay for themselves. But at that time, Luther said he was not thinking about this side gig as starting a true business.<\/p>\n
Four years later, he started the business in earnest. Since then, the business has grown to serve throughout Central Oregon.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve quickly grown into Central Oregon\u2019s premier bounce house rental company, trusted for everything from backyard birthdays to school functions, church gatherings, corporate parties, and large community festivals,\u201d the company\u2019s website said. <\/p>\n
With the week of fair being in the middle of the summer, Platt said that offering water attractions like water slides may work well.<\/p>\n
\u201cHumbly, I feel like this is going to be the kind of thing that a few years down the road people look back on and are asking, \u2018Hey, remember that fair we brought in water slides? Why don\u2019t we do that again?\u2019\u201d Platt said. <\/p>\n
He also said the Fair Board is establishing a relationship with 541 Bounce Experience and looking for ways to continue working with them in the future, which could potentially include other events or having them at the fair in the future. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe proof will be in the pudding when we actually get to the fair and see how all these moving parts come together for everybody,\u201d Platt said. \u201cBut personally, I\u2019m really excited that we provided that much entertainment for so many people to consume at a very important time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Luther\u2019s wife is from Madras, and she was the one who suggested the company reach out to the Jefferson County Fair & Rodeo to see how they could help. <\/p>\n
His goal was simply to \u201csee if I can do something to try and provide a good experience for kids there.\u201d <\/p>\n
Now, he is \u201cexcited\u201d to be part of the Jefferson County Fair & Rodeo. <\/p>\n
\u201cI know there\u2019s a lot of families out there,\u201d Luther said. \u201cThere\u2019s not as much to do as larger cities for kids. So I think it\u2019s pretty special being able to be a part of their early memories.\u201d <\/p>\n
Luther said he knows this change to the fair was not a purposeful choice.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s making the best of a situation out of your control,\u201d Luther said. \u201c\u2026 I think going, participating, and supporting your neighbors and their businesses, things like that, is important in any circumstance even if it\u2019s not your first pick for what the fair looks like.\u201d <\/p>\n
General admission to the fair and rodeo is free, and tickets for 541 Bounce Experience are now available on the company\u2019s website.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s Jefferson County Fair & Rodeo<\/a> will also still offer the rodeo on July 24 and 25, with tickets available at the door starting at 6 p.m. for the 7 p.m. events. An interactive lizard, snake and dragon show will be offered alongside many live bands, interactive experiences with the Children\u2019s Museum of Central Oregon, livestock exhibits, face painting, camel rides and axe throwing will also be there.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source madraspioneer.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Jefferson County Fair & Rodeo will have a carnival after all. The 541 Bounce Experience will offer waterslides, bounce houses, carnival games, obstacle courses and \u201cmore daring, interactive games\u201d at this year\u2019s Jefferson County Fair & Rodeo. \u201cWe had pretty much come to grips with the fact that we weren\u2019t going to be able […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2501925,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2501924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Bend-based-entertainment-business-in-2026-Jefferson-County-Fair-Rodeo.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2501924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2501926,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2501924\/revisions\/2501926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2501925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2501924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2501924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2501924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}