{"id":437607,"date":"2026-09-16T10:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T10:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/437607\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T10:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T10:40:10","slug":"plan-your-weekend-among-the-clouds-at-the-plano-balloon-festival-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/437607\/","title":{"rendered":"Plan your weekend among the clouds at the Plano Balloon Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The 47th Plano Balloon Festival takes place Sept. 17-20 at Red Tail Pavilion at Oak Point Park in Plano. Attendees can catch balloon glows Thursday, Friday and Saturday evening at 7:30 p.m., when pilots fire up their burners and illuminate the balloons from inside. On Saturday and Sunday morning at 7 a.m., more than 30 balloons will be inflated and take to the sky. Festival-goers can also talk with balloon pilots and learn about hot air ballooning, while tethered rides hover 20 to 30 feet above the ground. The weekend also includes the Re\/Max skydivers, a martial arts exhibition by the Shaolin Wu-Yi Institute, laser shows by Boom Special Effects and live music. Parking is available at Collin College Spring Creek Campus, First United Methodist Church and Oak Point Recreation Center for $15 per car, with off-site parking at Plano Event Center for $10 per car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 47th Plano Balloon Festival takes place Sept. 17-20 at Red Tail Pavilion at Oak Point Park in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[151646,151647,151274,101555,160,151278,162,161],"class_list":["post-437607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-balloon-glows","tag-collin-college-spring-creek-campus","tag-oak-point-park","tag-oak-point-recreation-center","tag-plano","tag-plano-balloon-festival","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}