Winnemucca Balloon Festival

Winnemucca Balloon Festival Our 2025 BOO-loon Festival will be held 10/24 - 10/26 at the Whitworth Rec Complex & Sports Complex in Winnemucca! Complex (1973 Whitworth Way).

The Annual Winnemucca Hot-Air Balloon Festival is held every spring at the Whitworth Recreation Complex and the Winnemucca Sports Complex. This event is produced by Winnemucca Balloons LLC, a not for profit, volunteer based company founded solely to bring the joys of hot-air ballooning to Winnemucca. General Admission is free to the festival, with donations of canned food items for the Food Bank b

eing collected at the gates. Gates open at 5pm for the 6-8pm Friday night Glow Show/Food Trucks at the Whitworth Rec. Gates open at 4:30am with the approximate launch time of 5:45am Saturday & Sunday of the festival at the Winnemucca Sports Complex (1600 Barker Way). Winnemucca Balloons, founded by Jeremy Crosby in 2012, has a small committee of dedicated volunteers who produce the annual festival. We rely on volunteers and donations to bring this event, free of admission fees, to Winnemucca. We cannot bring this event to the community without your support! If you would like more event details or information on becoming a sponsor, vendor, volunteer or donating, visit our website at winnemuccaballoons.wix.com/winnemucca-balloons
Email: [email protected]
Call Jeremy Crosby at 775-621-6202

Mele Kalikimaka from the Winnemucca Balloon Festival and our Hawaiian-themed float!! 🌺 You may have noticed that our flo...
12/14/2025

Mele Kalikimaka from the Winnemucca Balloon Festival and our Hawaiian-themed float!! 🌺 You may have noticed that our float looked a little different this year and had a lack of what we like to call “big fire.” This was a decision made to avoid conflict between our hot flames and the lovely new string lights that span Bridge Street. This was not an easy decision to make, but ultimately safety and liability have to come before fun.

Thank you to all of our committee members who made this year’s float a possibility!! Thank you as well to the Chamber of Commerce for hosting another great Parade of Lights!! 🎄❤️💚

The Winnemucca Balloon Festival committee and our Balloonmeister have made the tough decision to preemptively cancel tom...
10/26/2025

The Winnemucca Balloon Festival committee and our Balloonmeister have made the tough decision to preemptively cancel tomorrow’s (10/26/2025) Morning Flight. Unfortunately it does not look like the weather will cooperate in the short amount of time before we would be getting to the field.

We want to thank the community, pilots and sponsors for their support of this year’s festival, and we will give a more lengthy thank you after the festival fully wraps and we can give warm goodbyes to our pilots.

Today’s morning flights have been cancelled due to wind/weather. Please join us tomorrow morning at 6:30 AM at the Sport...
10/25/2025

Today’s morning flights have been cancelled due to wind/weather. Please join us tomorrow morning at 6:30 AM at the Sports Complex (1600 Barker Way, Winnemucca) for the last of the Boo-Loon Festival Morning Flights.

Thank you to everyone who showed up to help crew!

Thank you all for a WONDERFUL Humboldt Ford Glow Show! Join us in the morning for the Boo-Loon Festival Morning Flights!...
10/25/2025

Thank you all for a WONDERFUL Humboldt Ford Glow Show! Join us in the morning for the Boo-Loon Festival Morning Flights! Have a good night!

THANK YOU to everyone who came out this morning to help crew, even though the flights were eventually cancelled, due to ...
10/24/2025

THANK YOU to everyone who came out this morning to help crew, even though the flights were eventually cancelled, due to wind.

We hope you’ll still join and crew for us TONIGHT at the Humboldt Ford Glow Show! Click on the event name for details!

Did you see the beautiful balloon over Winnemucca? What a great kick off to our event and what is sure to be a great wee...
10/24/2025

Did you see the beautiful balloon over Winnemucca? What a great kick off to our event and what is sure to be a great weekend!

WE NEED CREW! There’s more to these balloons than just hot air, whether you have done it before or are completely brand new to crewing, your help IS needed! Please show up to the sports complex on Friday, Saturday and Sunday morning at 6:30AM!

Looking for Glow Show Details? Find them here: Humboldt Ford Glow Show

Looking for Launch Details? Find them here: Boo-Loon Festival Morning Flights

A huge thanks to Port of Subs Winnemucca, Nevada and the Humboldt Museum for hosting a great pilot check-in, as always!
10/24/2025

A huge thanks to Port of Subs Winnemucca, Nevada and the Humboldt Museum for hosting a great pilot check-in, as always!

10/20/2025

This week! Are you excited?

Looking for event details? Find them here at the event page for the Humboldt Ford Glow Show and Boo-Loon Festival Morning Flights!

🎃 Things are getting un-boo-lievable in Winnemucca!Pilot Kelly Couch and Sierra Blue are floating in with all treats and...
10/20/2025

🎃 Things are getting un-boo-lievable in Winnemucca!
Pilot Kelly Couch and Sierra Blue are floating in with all treats and no tricks for this year’s Boo-loon Festival!
Catch them goofing off in the spooky blue Nevada sky!

🖤 Every October, the sky opens its arms to welcome the brave and the bold.This year, Pilot Chris Casaceli and Phoenix re...
10/19/2025

🖤 Every October, the sky opens its arms to welcome the brave and the bold.
This year, Pilot Chris Casaceli and Phoenix return — floating between dawn and dusk, where magic meets mystery.

🎃 It’s not Halloween without a Boo-loon! Welcome Pilot Stan Robertson flying Beach Ball — haunting our morning skies Oct...
10/19/2025

🎃 It’s not Halloween without a Boo-loon!
Welcome Pilot Stan Robertson flying Beach Ball — haunting our morning skies Oct. 24–26!

🧙‍♂️ Double, double, toil and bubble!Pilot Phil Wells and Sierra Sunrise are brewing up magic in the Winnemucca skies th...
10/18/2025

🧙‍♂️ Double, double, toil and bubble!
Pilot Phil Wells and Sierra Sunrise are brewing up magic in the Winnemucca skies this Halloween weekend! 🎈✨

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Mailing Address: 1075 Cosgrave
Winnemucca, NV
89445

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