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Parking/Admission Information

Cost: Early morning activities – FREE Admission
Fri 4-10p and Sat 1-10p - $3 Adult Walk-in Admission, Kids under 13 FREE OR $8 per vehicle parking (FREE admission for occupants of vehicles). Free shuttle
RV parking on site - $20 per vehicle per night. No water/sewer. Limited electrical hook ups available.

Parking: All public parking is from Germantown Rd/SR4, at the Middletown Regional Airport entrance – next to Frisch’s Restaurant.

The $8 parking fee allows all vehicles – cars, trucks, buses and all occupants to access the hot air balloon festival site.

Vehicles displaying the universal handicap sticker will be routed into the Smith Park area, very near the balloon launch site and skydiver landing zone. Other vehicles will be directed to parking on the airport grounds with FREE shuttle bus service into the park.

Several buses will be running the loop route constantly from parking lot to festival, including handicap buses.


For more information, please email info@ohiochallenge.com
or call 513-705-1770