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Launch Sites Across the Country

We have 150 launch sites around the country. And, your winning bidders can chose from any of them. Most are within an hour's drive to major metropolitan areas. Also, you can encourage your auction attendees to bid on the item as a gift for friends or family who live in another part of the country. The balloon ride tickets are fully transferable.

Please note that many popular areas have more than one pilot and crew available. Most locations are in scenic areas conveniently located within a 45 minute drive of major metropolitan areas. Also, several vacation hot spots including the California Wine Country, Las Vegas, New England and Florida are featured. (This list is available in a printable version in our Live and Silent Auction Kit. Click Here for a .pdf of our Live and Silent Auction Kit.)
 

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Major metropolitan cities are in Bold: and closest launch areas are Underlined.

AR

Little RockLittle Rock  ● About 30 miles north of Little Rock in ConwayFort Smith:  75 miles north of Fort Smith in Bentonville ● 150 miles northeast of Fort Smith in Branson, MO.

 

AZ

Phoenix/Tucson:  Phoenix ● 9 miles northwest of Phoenix in Glendale ● 20 miles north of Phoenix in Deer Valley ● Several pilots launch just east of Phoenix in Scottsdale ● 25 miles south of Phoenix in Maricopa ● 30 miles north of Phoenix in Carefree ● 55 miles south of Phoenix in EloyFlagstaff:  30 miles south of Flagstaff in the Sedona area.

 

CA

Northern CA:  About an hour north of San Francisco in Santa Rosa  and Sonoma County ● 80 miles north of San Francisco in Middletown ● 100 miles north of San Francisco in Clear Lake  Lake Tahoe:  Lake Tahoe itself as well as just over the border in Reno ● 12 miles northwest of Lake Tahoe in Truckee. Southern CA:  About an hour east of Los Angeles in Perris  ●  60 miles northwest of Los Angeles in Ventura ● 100 miles east of Los Angeles in Palm Springs ●  120 miles east of LA off route 10 in Palm Desert ●  An hour and 15 minutes southeast of Los Angeles in  Temecula ●  20 minutes north of San Diego in Del Mar.

 

CO

 

Greater Denver: Denver ●  30 miles northwest of Denver in Boulder ●  35 miles north of Denver in Longmont ● 9 miles south of Denver in Littleton ●  25 miles south of Denver in Castle Rock ●  60 miles south of Denver in Colorado Springs.

CT

Greater Hartford10 miles west of Hartford in Farmington ●  6 miles north of Hartford in Bloomfield ●  55 miles northeast of Hartford in Worcester, MA  Stamford:  An hour and a half from Stamford in Clinton, NJ ● Two hours drive from Stamford in Flemington, NJ.  Danbury: 30 miles northwest of Danbury in Beacon, NY ● 50 miles west of Danbury in Otisville, NY ● An hour and 15 minutes north of Danbury in the scenic Catskill Mountain Region.

 

DC

Washington:  45 miles northwest of DC in Round Hill, VA  ● An hour and 45 minutes from DC near the Bryce Ski Resort in Woodstock, VA ●  An hour and 45 minutes from DC in York, PA ●  About an hour and 45 minutes south of DC in Richmond, VA ●  120 miles north of DC in Valley Forge, PA ● About 2 hours southwest of DC in the Shenandoah Valley and Bayse, VA.

 

DE

Wilmington:  30 miles north of Wilmington in Valley Forge, PA ● 60 miles northeast of Wilmington in New Hope, PA ● 70 miles west of Wilmington in York, PA ● 80 miles north of Wilmington in Flemington, NJ ● 140 miles southwest of Wilmington in Round Hill, VA ● 190 miles southwest of Wilmington in the Shenandoah Valley, VA.

 

FL

Orlando, Daytona:  Orlando & Daytona ● 15 miles north of Orlando in Apopka  ●  25 miles west of Orlando in Clermont ● 34 miles north of Orlando in Mount Dora ●  39 miles north of Orlando in Deland  ● 40 miles northwest of Orlando in Leesburg ● 45 miles southwest of Orlando in Winterhaven. Tampa, St. Pete:  Tampa & St. Petersburg ● 35 miles east of Tampa in Lakeland   West Palm Beach,  Fort Lauderdale, Miami:  Miami, South Miami ● 10 miles southwest of Miami in Kendall ● 30 miles southwest of Miami in Homestead ●  70 miles north of Fort Lauderdale in Port St. Lucie, 75 miles north of Fort Lauderdale in Palm City. NW Florida:  Tallahassee.

 

GA

Atlanta130 miles east of Atlanta in Augusta ●  220 miles northeast of Atlanta in Charlotte, NC. Southwestern Georgia: About 20 miles from the Georgia/Florida border in Tallahassee, FL.

 

IA

Des Moines:  15 miles south of Des Moines in Indianola.

 

IL

Chicago:  35 miles southwest of Chicago in Plainfield ●  40 miles northwest of Chicago in Fox River Grove ● 60 miles northwest of Chicago just over the border in Lake Geneva, WI  Southern IL: St. Louis, MO and Lawrenceville.

 

IN

Indianapolis:  Indianapolis ● 35 miles northeast of Indianapolis in Anderson ●  An hour south of Indianapolis in BloomingtonEvansville:  45 miles north of Evansville in Vincennes ● 50 miles north of Evansville in Lawrenceville, IL ●100 miles west of Evansville in Louisville, KY.

 

KS

Kansas City:  Kansas City.

 

KY

Louisville:  Louisville ● 75 miles east of Louisville in Lexington.

 

LA

Shreveport:  Shreveport. MonroeMonroe ●  35 miles east of east of Monroe in Delhi ●  70 miles east of Monroe just over the Mississippi border in Vicksburg, MS.  Alexandria:  Alexandria.

 

MA

Boston:  30 miles west of Boston in Westborough ● 35 miles north of Boston in Derry, NH ●  40 miles west of Boston in Worcester Springfield:  30 miles south of Springfield in Farmington, CT ●  35 miles south of Springfield in Bloomfield, CT  Western Massachusetts:  30 miles southwest of Pittsfield, MA in the Catskill Mountain Region,

 

MD

Baltimore:  45 miles north of Baltimore in York, PA ●  75 miles west of Baltimore in Round Hill, VA ●  95 miles northeast of Baltimore in Valley Forge, PA ● 2 hours southwest of Baltimore in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley.

 

ME

Bangor:  Bangor.  Portland:  35 miles north of Portland in Auburn ●  50 miles north of Portland in Augusta ●  85 miles southwest of Portland in Derry, NH.

 

MI

Detroit:  40 miles north of Detroit in Oxford ● 105 miles miles north of Detroit in Bad Axe.

 

MN

Minneapolis/St Paul:  30 miles southwest of Minneapolis in Jordan.

 

MO

Kansas City:  Kansas City, KS  Saint Louis: St. Louis ● 20 miles west of St. Louis in Chesterfield  Springfield: 110 miles southwest of Springfield in Bentonville, AR. Branson: Branson.

 

MS

Jackson:  40 miles west of Jackson in Vicksburg ● 75 miles west of Jackson in Delhi, LA  ●  100 miles west of Jackson in Monroe, LA.

 

NC

Charlotte: Charlotte.

NH

Manchester:  12 miles south of Manchester in Derry.

 

NJ

Northern NJ:  About 35 miles west of Newark off I-78 in Clinton ● 42 Miles southwest of Newark in Flemington. ● 50 miles southwest of Newark in Lambertville ● 55 miles southwest of Newark in New Hope, PA ● 65 miles north of Newark in Beacon, NY ● 75 miles northwest of Newark in Otisville, NY. Southern NJ:  20 miles northwest of Philadelphia in Valley Forge, PA.

 

NM

Albuquerque:  Albuquerque. Santa Fe:  60 miles north of Santa Fe in Taos.

 

NV

Las Vegas:  Las Vegas.   Reno:  Reno.

 

NY

NYC, Long Island, Westchester:  50 miles west of NYC in Clinton, NJ ●  55 miles southwest of NYC in Flemington, NJ ●  60 miles north of NYC in Beacon ● 75 miles northwest of NYC in Otisville  ●  80 miles northeast of NYC in Farmington, CT ●  90 miles northeast of NYC in Bloomfield, CT  ●  120 miles north of NYC in Stockport (The Catskills) Syracuse:  Syracuse ● 10 miles southeast of Syracuse in Fayetteville Rochester:  10 miles southwest of Rochester in Scottsville ● 45 miles south of Rochester in Dansville  ● 70 miles south of Rochester in Bath.

 

OH

Cleveland, Akron:  40 miles south of Cleveland in Akron  Youngstown:  30 miles southeast of Youngstown in Beaver Falls, PA  Columbus, Dayton:  Columbus. Cincinnati:  80 miles south of Cincinnati in Lexington, KY ● 95 miles southwest of Cincinnati in Lousiville, KYToledo: 90 miles north of Toledo in Oxford, MI.

 

OK

Oklahoma City: Oklahoma City  Tulsa/Muskogee:  Tulsa ●  About 15 miles southeast of Tulsa in Broken Arrow  Southern OK:  Just an hour south of the OK/TX border in McKinney, TX.

 

OR         

Portland:  8 miles south of Portland in Lake Oswego ● 9 miles south of Portland in Tigard.  Medford, Eugene Medford ●  25 miles northwest of Medford in Grants Pass

 

PA

Philadelphia:  20 miles northwest of Philadelphia in Valley Forge ●  35 miles north of Piladelphia in New Hope ● 40 miles north of Philadelphia in Quakertown ● 55 miles north of Philadelphia in Flemington, NJ ● 55 miles northwest of Philadelphia in Allentown ● 60 miles north of Philadelphia in Clinton, NJ. Harrisburg20 miles south of Harrisburg in York  ●  35 miles southeast of Harrisburg in Lancaster  Pittsburgh: 35 miles northwest of Pittsburgh in Beaver Falls.

 

RI

Providence : 35 miles northwest of Providence in Worcester, MA ●  40 miles north of providence in Westborough, MA ● An hour and 10 minutes west of Providence in Farmington, CT ● An hour and 20 minutes west of Providence in Bloomfield, CT ● 90 miles north of Providence in Derry, NH.

 

SC

Greenville: 65 miles northeast of Greenville in Charlotte, NC ● 135 miles south of Greenville in Augusta, GA.

TN

Nashville: 25 miles east of Nashville in Lebanon, TN  ●  45 miles northwest of Nashville in Clarksville, TN.

Knoxville: 80 miles northeast of Knoxville in Abingdon, VA.

 

TX

Dallas/Fort Worth:  Launch sites between Dallas and Fort Worth ●  15 miles north of Dallas in Plano ● 

25 miles north of Dallas in McKinney   ●  90 miles east of Dallas in Cedar Creek Lake   San Antonio:  San Antonio.

 

UT

Salt Lake City30 miles east of Salt Lake City in Park City ●  40 miles southeast of Salt Lake City in Heber.

 

VA

Northern Virginia45 miles northwest of Arlington in Round Hill ●  An hour and a half from Arlington near the Bryce Ski Resort in Woodstock  ●  About two hours southwest of Arlington in the Shenandoah Valley. Richmond, Norfolk Richmond  ●  Southwest Virginia15 miles northeast of Bristol close to the Tennessee border in Abingdon.

 

VT

Southern VT: 75 miles east of Brattleboro in Derry, NH ●  65 miles southeast of the VT/MA border in Worcester, MA  Southwestern VT:  60 miles from the southwestern VT/NY border in Stockport, NY (The Catskills).

 

WA

Vancouver:  15 miles south of Vancouver in Lake Oswego, OR.

 

WI

Milwaukee: 50 miles southwest of Milwaukee in Lake Geneva ●  65 miles south of Milwaukee in Fox River Grove, IL Madison:  Madison ● 10 miles north of Madison in Sun Prairie.

 

WV

Eastern WV50 miles south of Martinsburg in Woodstock, VA ● Several launch sites in the Shenandoah Valley,  VA.

 

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