Why choose
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Where Carson Valley balloon flights take place
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Carson Valley Balloon Rides and Hot Air Balloon Weddings Minutes from Lake Tahoe
2011 Rates
Private Balloon Flights: $250/person.
Reservations are required! CALL 775-790-7572
or Click here to reserve a flight. . . »
Flight Information
Carson Valley Ballooning Home Page
Why ride the bus when you can ride in a limo? When you fly with us, you won't share the flight experience with other passengers. Just the two (or three) of you and your personal pilot enjoying a peaceful balloon flight as it's meant to be experienced... without distractions. Visit the "Why Us" page to see the advantages in choosing Balloon Nevada.
We fly year round by reservation only. After each flight, we celebrate your courage and bravery with a traditional champagne (or sparkling cider) toast.
Nevada Hot Air Balloon Weddings
Get married in Nevada in our hot air balloon!
Intimate wedding ceremonies performed year round in the "Chapel of Peace & Heavenly Views" over northern Nevada's beautiful Carson Valley.
Our intimate hot air balloon weddings are tailored towards couples wishing to have a simple, unique and memorable wedding ceremony. More...»
Carson Valley Ballooning Photos
Aerial Self Portraits (Ed Darrack)
Assorted Balloon Flight photos
Fall Ballooning in the Carson Valley
Early Summer Flight
Reserve a Balloon Flight Here!
We offer one balloon flight per day. All reservations are confirmed on a first come, first served basis. Before a balloon flight can be confirmed, we must first be sure your requested date is available. By submitting this form, you are basically checking availability. Once we receive this request, we will contact you with availability status and to make payment arrangements. No payment information is requested at this time. GO TO RESERVATION PAGE »
Photographers Welcome
Ballooning is one of the most photographed activities on earth, and a hot air balloon is one of the best platforms for photographers! If you really want to have some fun and happen to have one of the GoPro® HD Cameras, by all means bring it! We also suggest you bring a GoPro® Handlebar Seatpost Mount
which will secure your GoPro camera to one of our burner supports or to our custom suspended camera mount which puts your camera out 25' from the basket for very spectacular shots.
Quality vs quantity
Why ride the bus when you can take a limo for the same price? The cost of our private balloon ride is comparable to group rates elsewhere, and considerably cheaper than what many others charge for private flights, if private flights are even offered.
Visit us in Northern Nevada...
Nevada = 110,567 sq. mi. Nevada's population = 2,000,000 residents. 1,700,000 residents live on 7,881 sq. mi. area 420 miles away from here called Las Vegas/Clark County. That means 300,000 of us get the remaining 102,686 sq. mi. to ourselves.
Balloon Flight Information
Our goal is to provide an opportunity for people to truly "escape reality" in the privacy of our hot air balloon to experience the sensations of ballooning without the interruptions of other people.
While shopping for a hot air balloon flight, you'll notice two things in particular that makes Balloon Nevada stand out above other balloon ride operators.
We don't fly groups. The maximum number of guests we will fly in our balloon is three, but usually it's just two. Why is that? Ballooning shouldn't be in the same category as an amusement park ride. Modern day ballooning began as an "intimate" outdoor activity shared with a handful of friends, sort of like like golf... a way to "get away from it all" for a few hours.
Today, going for a balloon ride usually means getting stuffed into an undersized basket with 12 to 20 of your new best friends. Balloon rides are now tour bus rides or carnival rides in the sky with restless kids, boarding passes and all. We don't want to play that game.
Don't take this the wrong way. Riding in a large capacity balloon is safe, and depending on your fellow companions, can be a lot of fun (like that bus ride to El Paso sitting next to a guy sporting a bottle of Ripple).
There are many qualified and very professional large capacity balloon ride providers out there that will give your group a very good ballooning experience. However... if you'd like to experience the real beauty of ballooning from your own private basket, we hope you'll consider flying with Balloon Nevada. If you're going to do something once in your life, do it right!