Tethered Balloon Rides, Bungee jumping,
climbing wall, and an inflatable slide are
available to participants along with daily hot
air balloon rides during the three day event.
Purchase balloon ride tickets online or at the
site.
Flight take place early morning and late
afternoon depending on the winds. In the
evening there will be balloon glow events.
The admission fee for the weekend is $12. for
an adult, good for the entire event, and $5. for
children 6-12. Children under 6 free, seniors
$10.
Parking is available on the green for an
additional small fee. Limited RV parking is
available on the green.
Quechee is near Colonial Woodstock, a village
with a population of 3,500 set in farm country of
rolling hills where farmers produce milk, cheese,
and maple syrup.
The area offers crafts artists, equine eventing,
simulated fox hunts, and elegant shops.
Antique covered bridges and postcard-like farms
attract artists and photographers, others come for
the golf, tennis, and museums
Equestrian events attract horse owners to
Woodstock. May and July see the Green
Mountain Horse Association's Hunter
Jumper shows in South Woodstock and
weekends bring equestrian events.
The end of August brings the Annual Scottish
Festival with bagpipe music, Scottish fiddles,
Celtic harp, and Scottish dancing along with
sheep herding dogs and a road race that requires
kilts.
The villagers have preserved the old houses and
three covered bridges, two date to the mid 1800s.
The Quechee Vermont Balloon annual festival
combines a crafts fair with the flights of over 20
balloons that lift of each morning and afternoon,
weather permitting from the Quechee Town Green
near the Simon Pierce Glassworks.
The crafts fair includes over 60 artisans and food
booths, music stages with country, bluegrass and
Cajun music, parachute demonstration team,
performing disc catching dogs, and train rides and
animal demonstrations for children.
Woodstock Vermont Hot Air Balloons
Balloon Festival, Quechee Vermont
Quechee Hot Air Balloon Festival, Vermont Crafts Fair
Foliage Season
October brings the changing of the leaves to
Woodstock. From the Village Green beside the river,
balloons fly passengers all season down the river
and into the Quechee Gorge. Morning flights usually
follow the river southeast then fly up over route 4 and
descend into the mile-long water-cut canyon billed
locally as Vermont's Grand Canyon. Morning flights
fly above the Gorge giving passengers a great view.
Afternoon flights will follow the river through farm
country and over the ski mountain to the northwest.
Woodstock Vermont
Food and craft
Festival
Getting to Woodstock: Traveling by air, the nearest international airport is Boston's Logan Airport
(BOS) where you can rent a car for the trip north. Follow Route 93 North as it goes through the city of
Boston towards Manchester, NH. North of Manchester pick up Route 89 north to Lebanon NH and White
River Junction Vermont. Then take Rout 4 to Woodstock, VT
Quechee Vermont
Balloon Rides
During the third week of June each year, hot Air Balloons gather in Quechee
Vermont near Woodstock to fly from the Quechee Green and float along the
river and over the farms and fields. The Balloons fly twice a day from the
Village Green near Quechee Vermont's Simon Pierce Glass Works.
Quechee Annual Hot air Balloon Festival and Crafts Fair, Mid June,
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