{"id":22616,"date":"2016-05-18T00:04:34","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T07:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=22616"},"modified":"2016-05-18T00:04:34","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T07:04:34","slug":"balloon-festivals-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/balloon-festivals-ca\/","title":{"rendered":"Up, Up, Away at Balloon Festivals in CA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/hotbalon.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/temecula-balloon-wine-festival.html\">Temecula Wine &amp; Balloon Festival<\/a> is a popular annual event that packs them in this weekend at\u00a0Lake Skinner Park. The Balloon Glow after sundown on Friday and Saturday nights (weather permitting)\u00a0is quite special.\u00a0California&#8217;s wine country regions from Southern California to Napa and Sonoma are lucky to have fine weather conducive to hot air balloon rides. If you want a balloon ride in Temecula you should arrange it before or after the festival (it&#8217;s like trying to get a gondola ride in Naples, Calif. the night of the Naples Boat Parade. ) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/visit\/soaring-above-california-in-a-hot-air-balloon.html\">Here are some companies offering rides<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for a hot air balloon festival with more opportunities to ride, the annual Sonoma County Hot Air Balloon Classic does offer tether rides, or sponsorship opportunities that include full-on rides. That event\u00a0takes place in\u00a0June. \u00a0In September Clovisfest features hot air balloon\u00a0inflation &amp; ascension to launch the event. It&#8217;s quite a sight. Here are some of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-balloon-festivals.html\">California&#8217;s balloon festivals<\/a>. Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Temecula Wine &amp; Balloon Festival is a popular annual event that packs them in this weekend at\u00a0Lake Skinner Park. The Balloon Glow after sundown on Friday and Saturday nights (weather permitting)\u00a0is quite special.\u00a0California&#8217;s wine country regions from Southern California to Napa and Sonoma are lucky to have fine weather conducive to hot air balloon rides. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22616"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}