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Ascension Hot Air Balloon Festival this weekend (September 25-27)
Posted on 9/21/15 at 2:41 am
Posted on 9/21/15 at 2:41 am
Wonder if anyone has been to the Hot Air Balloon Festival? I'm only interested in the early morning hot air balloon viewing. where is the best location for viewing?
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Posted on 9/21/15 at 7:35 am to LSUBaseballGod82
I saw one in the air above Gonzales yesterday. thought maybe I had missed it.
Posted on 9/21/15 at 8:06 am to LSUBaseballGod82
Be prepared for a traffic problem (jam) similar to the LSU area after a football game if you go to Lamar Dixon. It took me an hour to go 3 miles last year ... and I know all of the short cuts around there. The best viewing is based on how close you want to be to them at lift off .
Posted on 9/21/15 at 8:18 am to LSUBaseballGod82
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where is the best location for viewing
the ground
Posted on 9/21/15 at 8:26 am to LSUBaseballGod82
Climb the water tower and watch from there.
Posted on 9/21/15 at 8:49 am to LSUBaseballGod82
Assuming morning liftoff is from LD (not some remote location) I would go to the parking lot at Home Depot. It's across the interstate from the LD area with an un-obdtructed view of the sky in that direction.
Posted on 9/21/15 at 8:49 am to Redbone
Any suggestions on viewing locations for viewing from a distance? Not really interested in the festival. Would rather just get close enough to check out the balloons in flight.
Posted on 9/21/15 at 8:52 am to Redbone
I don't want to go to LD. I just wanted to have a good place to stop and view the sky with the balloons
Posted on 9/21/15 at 9:02 am to LSUBaseballGod82
Find out which direction they will flying you could see them from a mile or 2 away from the LD. Some years they fly directly over our house in Gonzales. Some years they take a little bit different track. Also, there is a target site where they all head to to drop bean bags or something. I think that is usually posted on facebook.
Posted on 9/21/15 at 9:05 am to LSUBaseballGod82
They don't always lift off from the same place. Lift off location depends on weather conditions (wind direction and speed) and the target location. You're going to need some inside info on the actual daily competition to locate the lift off locations.
Posted on 9/21/15 at 9:07 am to Boudreaux35
Didn't it used to be later? Still seems way too hot for the hot air balloon festival.
Posted on 9/21/15 at 9:08 am to FootballNostradamus
Someone posted that Central Primary School was the targets
Posted on 9/21/15 at 9:23 am to LSUBaseballGod82
If you go early enough you will be fine, Lamar Dixon has tons of parking.
Posted on 9/21/15 at 9:24 am to LSUBaseballGod82
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Someone posted that Central Primary School was the targets
Not sure how this competition is being run, but in the past, the targets are different every day/time.
Posted on 9/21/15 at 9:52 am to FootballNostradamus
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Didn't it used to be later? Still seems way too hot for the hot air balloon festival.
Nope...if anything, it used to be earlier. I'm thinking it was in August when it was at Pennington.
ETA: Yep, in 2011 it was August 5-7 LINK
This post was edited on 9/21/15 at 9:54 am
Posted on 9/21/15 at 10:07 am to Boudreaux35
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Not sure how this competition is being run, but in the past, the targets are different every day/time.
true. we've always watched the facebook page. The target location is usually posted there at some point.
Posted on 9/21/15 at 10:26 am to LSUBaseballGod82
BR puts the HOT in Hot Air Balloon Festival.
Posted on 9/21/15 at 10:56 am to tigerbutt
The target is Central Primary School. They start at 7am Saturday morning. Anybody got an idea of what time they would be nearing Central Primary?
Posted on 9/21/15 at 7:31 pm to juice4lsu
bump for the night crew
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