– New Jersey Lottery Festival of Ballooning | |
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Begins | Third Friday in July |
Ends | Sunday |
Frequency | Annual |
Location(s) | Readington Township, New Jersey |
Inaugurated | 1983 |
Participants | Balloonists |
The New Jersey Lottery Festival of Ballooning has been held annually at the Solberg Airport in Readington Township, New Jersey since 1983. Its lead sponsor is New Jersey Lottery. In 2012, the festival hosted around 125 special shape and sport hot air balloons. It also had music concerts, crafters and vendors, food, carnival rides and fireworks, which attracted more than 175,000 people. It had more than fifty corporate partners.