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California's popular Temecula Valley Balloon & Wine Festival happens June 3, 4, and 5 (Friday, 5-9pm; Saturday, dawn and 10am-9pm; Sunday, dawn and 10am-5pm) at Lake Skinner Recreation Area. Make plans to book a room now. Like the adjacent Wine Country, the venue is scenic, big-sky country, affording panoramic views of the festival's hot air balloons.
Among many crowd-pleasers will be Balloon Glows, Friday and Saturday evening. While pilots synchronize the balloons' igniting burners to a musical beat, tethered balloons boldly flicker and shine dramatically against nightfall hues. Saturday and Sunday morning, mass Balloon Lift-Offs fill pastel-colored dawn skies with awe-inspiring sights of dozens of hot air balloons taking flight. More than twenty of the valley's premium, award-winning wineries will be pouring for the Festival's wine tastings. National-headline entertainment will perform on the Lake Skinner Amphitheater stage; live jazz, pop, and R & B on the Wine Garden Stage.
Before the events during Festival Week enjoy
- spectacular golfing at five excellent courses
- hot air balloon rides
- horseback riding
- hiking and wildflower viewing
- Old Town Temecula wine and specialty food tastings
- Wine Country tours and wine tastings
- exceptional dining and
- live music and entertainment.
The casual, picturesque Temecula Valley is just an hour from Orange County and Palm Desert, and 1½ hours from Los Angeles. For reservations and more information, click here.
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Stacey Wittig is an Arizona travel writer who writes about food and wine and blogs at True Vine Wine Blog.
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