New Jersey Lottery Festival of Ballooning

The New Jersey Lottery Festival of Ballooning is the largest summertime hot air balloon festival in North America, with up to 100 balloons taking flight during the last weekend of July. Held at Solberg Airport in Readington, New Jersey, this festival features family-friendly entertainment, concerts, fireworks and a unique way to watch the mass ascension: by joining nearly 1,000 participants on the Running with Balloons 5K, which ends at the center of the festival. This one-of-a-kind race starts not with a pistol shot or air horn, but with a human cannonball stunt, where record-holding Davis "The Bullet" Smith launches out of a cannon 75 feet into the air and over the crowd