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New Mexico Balloon Fiesta 2023 and New Jersey Festival of Ballooning 2024

Author Joel Katz
NEW JERSEY, US - JULY 29: A three-day of 39th Annual New Jersey Lottery Festival of Ballooning kicked off on Friday, July 29, in North America. Dozens of hot air balloons have brightened up the skies. The festival will be taking place until July 31.

Every summer in New Jersey we look forward to the New Jersey Festival of Ballooning. It’s the “largest summertime hot-air balloon and music festival in North America and is the premiere family entertainment attraction in New Jersey.” Each year we’re treated to some of the most breathtaking displays and activities. One of my favorites, which is literally breathtaking, is the Running with the Balloons 5k.

Next year, this amazing festival will be held, once again, at Solberg Airport in Readington, NJ. So make sure you don’t schedule your vacation plans for July 26-28 2024 or you’ll miss it.

If you can’t wait that long, you may want to book a flight to Albuquerque. Because this week is the start of the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. It’s not New Jersey’s, it’s New Mexico’s amazing balloon event.

If you’d rather not drive the roughly 2000 miles to attend, that’s not a problem. You can satisfy your balloon fest fix by live-streaming the event directly from your Jersey living room. Hopefully, this will make the wait for the New Jersey Festival of Ballooning a bit easier.

New Mexico’s fest runs for nine glorious days with similar ascensions that we love to see during our Jersey Summer. Their first hot-air fiesta was in 1972. Back then they had 13 balloons floating above a mall parking lot. It’s grown over the years, and now attracts close to a million people each year to watch approximately 600 balloons take to the sky.

The New Jersey Festival of Ballooning’s 2024 event is going to be a massive celebration with the return of the Darth Vader and Yoda balloons.

If you had to choose between the New Jersey and New Mexico Festivals, I would give Jersey the nod. However, the Albuquerque fiesta does have one thing that the Readington festival does not, a solar eclipse. This Saturday, October 14th the eclipse will roll across New Mexico at the same time as their mass ascension. The “balloon glow” will happen while the darkness of the eclipse blackens the skies.

Breast Cancer Awareness Month 2023: Events & Walks In New Jersey

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.  The annual international health campaign is organized yearly by major charities and organizations to raise awareness about the impact of breast cancer.

Every October, people all over the state of New Jersey observe Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Whether it’s to educate themselves, honor a loved one, or recognize a survivor, there are people we cross paths with every day affected by breast cancer.

If you’re looking to wear your best pink and raise awareness while helping others fight breast cancer, check out the list below of local walks and events scheduled for October 2023.

  • 2023 Komen New Jersey MORE THAN PINK Walk

    Saturday, October 7th
    Six Flags Great Adventure
    Jackson, NJ
    Click here for more information.

  • Just Us Girls 5k

    Saturday, October 7th
    Sea Girt Army Camp
    Philadelphia Blvd
    Sea Girt, NJ US 08750
    Click here for more information.

     

  • Making Strides of Ocean City NJ

    Sunday, October 8th
    Ocean City High School
    6th St And Boardwalk
    Ocean City, NJ
    Click here for more information.

  • Making Strides of Newark

    Sunday, October 15th
    Mulberry Commons Park
    160-172 Mulberry Street
    Newark, NJ
    Click here for more information.

  • Making Strides of Point Pleasant Beach

    Sunday, October 15th
    Ocean and Arnold Avenues
    Point Pleasant Beach, NJ
    Click here for more information.

     

  • Making Strides of Parsippany

    Sunday, October 22nd
    Century Office Campus
    4 Century Dr
    Parsippany, NJ
    Click here for more information.

  • Making Strides of Central New Jersey

    Sunday, October 22nd
    Middlesex County College
    2600 Woodbridge Ave
    Edison, NJ
    Click here for more information.

Joel Katz is the Morning Show Personality, Assistant Program Director, Podcast Host, Voiceover artist, audio producer, and Digital Content Writer for Magic 98.3. Joel has been working in New Jersey radio since college and started at Magic in 2002 as the Morning Show Host, “I can’t think of another place where I’d fit more perfectly; it’s just a great company with awesome people.” Joel is married to Kathleen, his elementary school sweetheart (they were each other’s first dates at age 9), shares a birthday with his oldest son, Ty, and has twins, Kiera and Liam. Joel runs at least 3.1 miles every day and enjoys playing basketball, doing laundry, saving his turn signal for when he really needs it, kissing dogs through a fence, using coasters, making that cool noise by rubbing his fingers on balloons, and chasing after ping pong balls on a windy cruise ship.

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