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# Blue Ridge Balloon

## Sitemaps

- [XML Sitemap](https://blueridgeballoon.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website.

## Posts

- [Blue Ridge Blog](https://blueridgeballoon.com/blue-ridge-blog/) - Blue Ridge Blog What’s for breakfast?By Liana Haseltine|2019-04-22T18:51:57+00:00April 22nd, 2019|One of the most common questions we get as we're [...] Let’s launch together! Gallery Let’s launch together!By Liana Haseltine|2019-03-22T03:27:34+00:00March 21st, 2019|What's almost as exciting as seeing the rains tapering off, [...]
- [What's for breakfast?](https://blueridgeballoon.com/whats-for-breakfast/) - One of the most common questions we get as we're wrapping up the post flight toast is "Where should we go for some good eats?!" so we thought we'd give some direction! Charlottesville, Virginia is not only an awesome place to go for a balloon ride, see historical sites, visit wineries, and enjoy a plethora
- [Let's launch together!](https://blueridgeballoon.com/lets-launch-together/) - What's almost as exciting as seeing the rains tapering off, temperatures rising, and hot air balloons flying?? Well, launching a brand new website, of course! Ha, okay, so maybe it's not quite that exciting for everyone else, but it certainly is for me! After almost 20 years in business and almost 10 years of counting

## Pages

- [Home](https://blueridgeballoon.com/) - Booking is closed for 2025After 25 years of flying full time in Central Virginia, the Blue Ridge Balloon pilots are taking the 2025 season off. We will not be taking any bookings for 2025. Thank you. 434-962-4976Online Booking ClosedWhy Blue Ridge Ballooning? FAA Certified, Experienced Professionals Private and group flights offered Smaller balloons, more personal
- [Balloon Ride Options and Packages](https://blueridgeballoon.com/ride-packages/) - Balloon Ride Options & PackagesBookings are closed for 2025 After 25 years of flying full time in Central Virginia, the Blue Ridge Balloon pilots are taking the 2025 season off. We will not be accepting any bookings for 2025. Thank you. Tethered BalloonFrom $2500 Perfect for gatherings of any size, this is a spectacular way
- [Events and Programs](https://blueridgeballoon.com/events-programs/) - Bring a balloon to your event!Tethers and Promotions A tethered balloon adds both fun and excitment to any event. With the Blue Ridge hot air balloon at your grand opening, company picnic, wedding, or special event, everyone involved can share in the adventure. Your guests will be thrilled with the opportunity to take a short
- [Contact Us](https://blueridgeballoon.com/contact-us/) - Our contact form has been disabled. You may still contact us by phone or text. Thank you! Call or text434-962-4976Mailing address: 540 South Boston Rd. Palmyra, VA 22963 Please note: There is no balloon launch site at this address! You are welcome to visit us, we’re friendly and we like company. But despite what TripAdvisor
- [Gift Certificates](https://blueridgeballoon.com/gift-certificates/) - Gift CertificatesGift Certificates are currently unavailable for purchase. We apologize for any inconvenience. Gift Certificate fine print Gift certificates are issued without an expiration date, but we ask that they be used within one year. If certificates are redeemed more than a year after the date of purchase, any price difference (if applicable) will be
- [About Us](https://blueridgeballoon.com/about-us/) - We’ve been flying since before we could walk.Our roots lie with Liberty Balloon Company of Western New York, owned and operated by Dad (Carroll) and brothers Lance and Lee Teitsworth. MEET THE TEAM We’re a multi-generational family business In 1999 we followed family tradition and began ballooning full time. Located in the foothills of the
- [COVID-19 Policies](https://blueridgeballoon.com/covid-19-policies/) - COVID-19 Policies In order to best accommodate social distancing recommendations in the hot air balloon basket, and to avoid combining multiple unrelated groups on any flights, we strongly recommend reservations for private flights. Our balloon baskets can accommodate 4-5 passengers plus the pilot, so any reservations for one or two people at the per person
- [Book Online](https://blueridgeballoon.com/book-online/) - Book OnlineIMPORTANT! Please read before booking: Balloon flights are extremely weather sensitive. We frequently must postpone flights due to weather conditions. If you are traveling from a distance, we strongly recommend booking your flight EARLY in your stay in case your flight is postponed. We cannot overstate the importance of being flexible in your planning
- [Policies & Requirements](https://blueridgeballoon.com/policies-and-requirements/) - Policies & RequirementsBooking PoliciesPhysical RequirementsBooking Policies Weight Restrictions The lifting capacity of a hot air balloon varies depending on several different factors such as the size of the balloon, air temperature at flight time, and relative humidity. At standard temperature and air pressure, the balloons we fly can accommodate the pilot plus 4-5 average sized
- [Local Attractions](https://blueridgeballoon.com/attractions/) - Our recommendationsWhen you come to Charlottesville for your balloon ride, you may want to round out your visit with some other activities. We want to help make your entire trip an adventure to remember, so here are a few of the places we suggest you include on your itinerary. AllBed & BreakfastsBreweriesHistorical SitesRestaurantsWineriesAdmin2019-03-23T19:03:36+00:00 Michie Tavern
- [Travel Blog](https://blueridgeballoon.com/travel-blog/) - Let’s launch together!What's almost as exciting as seeing the rains tapering off, temperatures rising, and hot air balloons flying?? Well, launching a brand new website, of course! Ha, okay, so maybe it's not quite that exciting for everyone else, but it certainly is for me! After almost [...]Let’s launch together!Let’s launch together! What’s for breakfast?One
- [Frequently Asked Questions](https://blueridgeballoon.com/faq/) - FAQHow long does the ride last?Admin2019-03-13T01:10:29+00:00How long does the ride last?The length and path of every flight is different, because we drift with the wind, but we aim for about an hour of flight time for each ride. The whole experience is about three hours from start to finish. That accounts for about an hour
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- [The Ride Experience](https://blueridgeballoon.com/the-ride-experience/)
- [Policies and Procedures](https://blueridgeballoon.com/privacy-policy/) - Who we are Our website address is: https://blueridgeballoon.com. What personal data we collect and why we collect it Comments When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymized string created from
- [Sample Page](https://blueridgeballoon.com/sample-page/) - This is an example page. It's different from a blog post because it will stay in one place and will show up in your site navigation (in most themes). Most people start with an About page that introduces them to potential site visitors. It might say something like this: Hi there! I'm a bike messenger

## Portfolio

- [Monticello](https://blueridgeballoon.com/local/monticello/) - Monticello is the autobiographical masterpiece of Thomas Jefferson—designed and redesigned and built and rebuilt for more than forty years—and its gardens were a botanic showpiece, a source of food, and an experimental laboratory of ornamental and useful plants from around the world.
- [Michie Tavern](https://blueridgeballoon.com/local/michie-tavern/) - Michie Tavern and General Store Savor a hearty Midday Fare in a rustic tavern setting Michie Tavern’s dining room, enjoy your favorite beverage in the 1784 Pub, or browse the General Store housed within the Meadow Run Grist Mill. https://www.michietavern.com
- [Blue Mountain Brewery](https://blueridgeballoon.com/local/blue-mountain-brewery/) - Set in the scenic Blue Ridge Mountains of Central Virginia, Blue Mountain opened in 2007 as the region’s first rural brewery. Today, we’re still focused on making an inspired range of the highest-quality beers that can be enjoyed at our two locations in beautiful Nelson County, or in bottles and cans throughout Virginia and beyond.
- [Mount Ida Reserve](https://blueridgeballoon.com/local/mount-ida-farm-reserve/) - From our small-batch wines to our masterfully constructed event venues, luxury getaway rentals and country estates, Mount Ida Reserve is a destination within Charlottesville.
- [Chisholm Vineyards at Adventure Farm](https://blueridgeballoon.com/local/chisholm-vineyards/) - Over the past 60 years the town of Charlottesville has grown, but Adventure Farm is still the bucolic paradise it’s always been.
- [King Family Vineyards](https://blueridgeballoon.com/local/king-family-vineyards/) - King Family Vineyards From the King Family Vineyards website: Beginning with carefully selected estate grapes, winemaker Matthieu Finot creates wines inspired by the old world, but are uniquely expressive of Virginia. Our passion is the customer, our craft is the wine.
- [The Clifton](https://blueridgeballoon.com/local/the-clifton/) - Few boutique hotels capture both the rich heritage and chic, modern wine country lifestyle of Charlottesville, VA like The Clifton.
- [Three Notch’d Brewery](https://blueridgeballoon.com/local/three-notchd-brewery/) - Much like the people mentioned above who left their marks on all of us, our brewery’s mission respects the inalienable rights of man, and we want to celebrate these with each and every one of our patrons.
- [Devil’s Backbone Brewery](https://blueridgeballoon.com/local/devils-backbone-brewery/) - We think being slow by nature is of mighty importance. It’s why we take our time brewing our lagers and it’s why we’re smack dab in the middle of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
- [James Madison's Montpelier](https://blueridgeballoon.com/local/james-madisons-montpelier/) - James Madison's Montpelier From the Montpelier website: Welcome to Montpelier, the home of President James Madison, the Father of the Constitution and Architect of the Bill of Rights, and Dolley Madison, America’s first "First Lady."The Montpelier estate features the historic home and grounds, gardens, historic buildings, exhibitions and tours, archaeological sites, and 8+ miles of
- [James Monroe's Highland](https://blueridgeballoon.com/local/james-monroe-highland/) - Experience Highland, the official residence of fifth President James Monroe and his wife, Elizabeth Kortright Monroe, from 1799 to 1823.

## FAQs

- [Where do we meet for our flight?  Where do you launch and land?](https://blueridgeballoon.com/faq-items/where-do-we-meet-for-our-flight-where-do-you-launch-and-land/) - We use a variety of launch sites in and around Charlottesville, but our most common meeting places are within 5 minutes of downtown. Since the area is relatively wooded and nestled in the foothills of the mountains, our launch site for any given flight depends on that day's wind speed and direction. We're careful to
- [How do you steer a hot air balloon?](https://blueridgeballoon.com/faq-items/how-do-you-steer-a-hot-air-balloon/) - Balloons are not “steerable” in the conventional sense of the word, but the pilot has some control over the direction of travel based on the different wind layers at different altitudes. Reading the winds and using them to control the direction of our flight as much as those winds allow is one of the fun
- [Do we get to fly over the mountains? What will the scenery be like?](https://blueridgeballoon.com/faq-items/do-we-get-to-fly-over-the-mountains-what-will-the-scenery-be-like/) - While we fly in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains and they serve as a backdrop for almost every flight we offer, we don’t actually fly over the mountains. They are beautiful to view from the air, but since they are covered in woods suitable mountain landing sites are few and far between. Our
- [How many people can fit in a basket?](https://blueridgeballoon.com/faq-items/how-many-people-can-fit-in-a-basket/) - Balloons are like cars, and come in all different shapes and sizes. The balloons we fly are the “family sedan” models, able to accommodate 4-5 adults plus the pilot. Currently we operate two balloons, so the total number of people we can accommodate on any given flight is nine.
- [What type of fuel do you use?](https://blueridgeballoon.com/faq-items/what-type-of-fuel-do-you-use/) - Modern hot air balloons use propane (LP). In the early days (1780’s) of ballooning, the method of heating the balloon was much more …ahem… primitive, but we’ll be sure to fill you in on those fun details after your flight!
- [What are the age requirements to ride in a hot air balloon?](https://blueridgeballoon.com/faq-items/what-are-the-age-requirements-to-ride-in-a-hot-air-balloon/) - We recommend that children less than seven years of age should NOT be pushed into flying in a balloon. Many youngsters are frightened of the noise of the burner. Others will be bored by the experience. Also, since our insurance limits the number of persons carried (not the number of pounds), our price is the
- [What happens if the weather is bad?](https://blueridgeballoon.com/faq-items/what-happens-if-the-weather-is-bad/) - Ballooning is an extremely weather sensitive activity, so we keep a very close eye on both the aviation forecast and the current conditions leading up to flight time. If there is anything unfavorable in the forecast and/or conditions, we will call off the flight. The definition of “unfavorable” for ballooning includes: any precipitation in the
- [How high do you go?](https://blueridgeballoon.com/faq-items/how-high-do-you-go/) - Hot air balloons have the capacity to go as high as 15,000 to 18,000 feet (as long as the occupants have oxygen), but our usual flight ranges from treetop height to about 2,000 feet above the ground.
- [I’m afraid of heights. Will I be able to enjoy a balloon ride?](https://blueridgeballoon.com/faq-items/im-afraid-of-heights-will-i-be-able-to-enjoy-a-balloon-ride/) - While we never try to talk anyone into joining us for a flight, if you think you'll enjoy it, you will! For many people, the difficulty is actually a fear of edges rather than a fear of heights... think rooftops, tall buildings, ladders, etc. When you have a physical point of contact with the ground,
- [How far in advance should we book our flight?](https://blueridgeballoon.com/faq-items/how-far-in-advance-should-we-book-our-flight/) - We take bookings for the current calendar year, so you can book as far in advance as you like! On the other hand, we take last minute bookings as well, and will do our best to accommodate everyone. Usually if you book a few weeks ahead of the time you'd like to fly, you'll have
- [What are the weight restrictions?](https://blueridgeballoon.com/faq-items/what-are-the-weight-restrictions/) - The capacity of any hot air balloon depends on several factors including ambient temperature, relative humidity, and number of people on a flight. The hotter and more humid it is, the less weight a balloon can carry, so the answer to this question is different at different times of the year. Generally, if the combined
- [How long does the ride last?](https://blueridgeballoon.com/faq-items/how-long-does-the-ride-last/) - The length and path of every flight is different, because we drift with the wind, but we aim for about an hour of flight time for each ride. The whole experience is about three hours from start to finish. That accounts for about an hour of set up/prep time, an hour or so in the

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## Categories

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## Portfolio Categories

- [Wineries](https://blueridgeballoon.com/portfolio_category/local-wineries/)
- [Breweries](https://blueridgeballoon.com/portfolio_category/breweries/)
- [Bed & Breakfasts](https://blueridgeballoon.com/portfolio_category/bed-and-breakfasts/)
- [Restaurants](https://blueridgeballoon.com/portfolio_category/restaurants/)
- [Historical Sites](https://blueridgeballoon.com/portfolio_category/historical-sites/)