Plano Balloon Festival

Name: Plano Balloon Festival
Start: 2026-09-17
End: 2026-09-20
Location: Oak Point Park

Plano, TX · Festival

When: September 17–20, 2026
Where: Oak Point Park · Plano · TX
Cost: Not confirmed
Status: Confirmed from the organizer's published schedule

A four day hot air balloon festival at Oak Point Park in Plano, with mass balloon launches, evening glow shows, and live concerts. It has run for more than four decades and draws visitors from across North Texas. The 2026 edition runs Thursday through Sunday, September 17 to 20.

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Plano Balloon Festivalsame spot
A four day hot air balloon festival at Oak Point Park in Plano, with mass balloon launches, evening glow shows, and live concerts.
Sam Bass robs a train at Allen Depot, the first train robbery in Texas1.7 mi
On 22 February 1878 Sam Bass and five other men held up a southbound Houston and Texas Central passenger train while it stood at the Allen depot, taking roughly $1,300, most of it in silver coin.
Oak Point Park took Plano twenty two years to buy1.9 mi
The city started buying and accepting donations of land along Rowlett Creek in 1982 and did not finish assembling the tract until 2004.
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The Plano Balloon Festival2.2 mi
Plano has launched hot-air balloons over this park every September since 1980, and the weekend has become one of the largest balloon meets in Texas.