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This magical hot air balloon festival is a colourful end of summer road trip from Toronto

Get ready to look up! The Gatineau Hot Air Balloon Festival is around the corner starting on August 29th, 2024.

The festival will have balloons of all shapes, sizes and colours soaring over the Ottawa-Gatineau region and other family-friendly festivities, too! It’s a road trip from Toronto but totally worth the drive.

Festival details

The 2024 rendition of the festival will happen from August 29th to September 2nd at Parc de la Baie in Gatineau, Quebec (less than a 15-minute drive from downtown Ottawa).

Guests can enjoy the carnival on the park grounds which comes complete with all the makings of a perfect family day or night out including a lineup of carnival rides!

The Gatineau Hot Air Balloon Festival also has something exciting called Night Glow which is “the dance of the hot air balloons glowing among the stars”.

Night Glow happens each night at around 8:45 PM.

Tickets for the festival starts at $44.99 per person. Feeling extra adventurous? You can book a hot air balloon ride for the price of $395 plus tax!

Visitors arriving from out of town can reserve RV parking, camper parking and tent sites on the festival grounds.

Sounds like the this Hot Air Balloon Festival is the perfect place to road trip as a final goodbye to summer!

Gatineau Hot Air Balloon Festival / Festival des montgolfièresde Gatineau (FMG)

When: August 29th – September 2nd, 2024
Where: Parc de la Baie, Rue Saint-Antoine, Gatineau, QC
Cost: $44.95+ per adult daily pass, free for children ages 2 – 10

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