Great Smoky Mountains Hot Air Balloon Festival

Townsend Visitors Center (Townsend, TN)

• Date: 8/15/2026
• Starts: 3:00pm
• Ends: 9:00pm

Join us this August for a summertime spectacle, The Great Smoky Mountains Hot Air Balloon Festival, when professional balloonists light up the evening sky with a beautiful balloon glow and spectacular tethered rides. The sky will be filled with a spectrum of color like never before, against a backdrop of a breathtaking Tennessee Smoky Mountain sunset, in beautiful Townsend, Tennessee!