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Arizona Balloon Classic

Chandler, AZ · Festival

When

January 15–17, 2027

Where

Wild Horse Pass Festival Grounds · Chandler · AZ

Cost

Not confirmed

Status

Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule

Arizona's premier hot air balloon race and festival fills the Wild Horse Pass Festival Grounds on the Gila River Indian Community with up to 30 balloon teams, evening balloon glows, and a companion kite festival. It also features a classic car show and food vendors. Now in its 16th year, it draws crowds from across the Phoenix metro each January.

The history within reach

• Arizona Balloon Classicsame spot

  Arizona's premier hot air balloon race and festival fills the Wild Horse Pass Festival Grounds on the Gila River Indian Community with up to 30 balloon teams, evening balloon glows, and a companion kite festival.

• ASU turns its old farm into a research park4.1 mi

  Arizona State shut down its agriculture programme in 1979 and was left holding a square mile of farmland in south Tempe.

• The Mystery Castle, built from junk for a daughter5.9 mi

  A man with tuberculosis left his family in Seattle and spent fifteen years building an eighteen-room house from salvage, stone and car parts for the daughter who had wanted a castle that would not wash away.

• South Mountain Park5.9 mi

  Sixteen thousand acres bought from the federal government for seventeen thousand dollars, and among the largest municipal parks in the world.

• Frank Lloyd Wright's Baghdad opera house, built in Tempe instead6.1 mi

  Wright had designed an opera house for Baghdad that was cancelled when the Iraqi monarchy fell.